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Professor of Organizational Behavior, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

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
  • American Psychological Association
  • Taiwan Academy of Management