Aichia Chuang is Professor of Organizational Behavior and PhD Director of Business Administration in the Department of Management, Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Before joining UNCG, she was the Fu-Bon Endowed Chair in Management and Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan where she was Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management in the Department of Business Administration. She earned her doctorate in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. in Sociology from the National Taiwan University. She served as visiting scholar at Stanford University in the US and Kyoto University in Japan. Chuang’s research interests include leadership, inclusion (person-environment fit and diversity), cross-cultural management, service climate and service performance, creativity, and multilevel theories and methods. Chuang’s research has appeared in such top journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Harvard Business Review.
Chuang is currently the HR Ambassador of the HR Division of the Academy of Management representing Taiwan. She was a previous Associate Editor of Human Relations (Financial Times 50). She serves or has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
Experience
2019–present
Professor of Organizational Behavior and PhD Program Director, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
2018–2019
Fu-Bon Endowed Chair in Management, National Taiwan University
Education
2001
University of Minnesota, PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Publications
2022
Enhancing employee creativity: Effects of choice, rewards and personality, Journal of Applied Psychology
2021
Business founders’ work design and new venture development, Journal of Business Venturing
2017
When one person’s high performance creates resentment in your team, Harvard Business Review
2017
Hot shots and cool reception? An expanded view of social consequences for high performers, Journal of Applied Psychology
2015
Does West “fit” with East? In search of a Chinese model of person–environment fit, Academy of Management Journal
2015
Fostering employee service creativity: Joint effects of customer empowering behaviors and supervisory empowering leadership, Journal of Applied Psychology
2011
Person-organization and personsupervisor fits: Employee commitments in a Chinese context, Journal of Organizational Behavior
2008
Perceived deep-level dissimilarity: Personality antecedents and impact on overall job attitude, helping, work withdrawal, and turnover, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
2007
Transforming service employees and climate: A multi-level multisource examination of transformational leadership in building long-term service relationships, Journal of Applied Psychology
2004
A multilevel investigation of factors influencing employee service performance and customer outcomes, Academy of Management Journal
2004
Sticking out like a sore thumb: Employee dissimilarity and deviance at work, Personnel Psychology
Professional Memberships
Academy of Management
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology