Shea Fan is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Deakin Business School, Melbourne, Australia.She investigates how global mobility, identity, and diversity affect employees and employee interactions, and how organizations and managers can help employees achieve their highest potential in contemporary work environments. Her research interest key words include: loneliness, diversity, IT identity, cultural identity, ethnic identity, work extremity, migrants, international students, sister city, cross cultural management and management in multinational corporations.
Experience
2024–present
Associate professor, Deakin Business School, Deakin Univeristy
2019–present
Senior lecturer, School of Management, RMIT University
2017–2019
Lecturer, School of Management, RMIT University
2014–2017
Assistant Professor, Nottingham University Business School China
Education
The University of Melbourne, PhD in Management
Publications
2024
Improving digital work experience: an experimental investigation of IT identity and organization support, Industrial Management & Data Systems
2024
Missed connections: A resource-management theory to combat loneliness experienced by globally mobile employees, Journal of International Business Studies
2023
Should I stay or should I go? The impact of entrepreneurs’ loneliness on business exit intentions through entrepreneurial passion, Journal of Business Venturing Insights
2023
Supporting the support services providers: exploring the invisible aspects of work extremity of social workers, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
2023
Examining work–home segmentation as a coping strategy for frontline workers: A mixed method study of social workers across Australia, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
2022
You are always one of us: The role of implicit theories of ethnicity in host country nationals’ view of co-ethnic expatriates, Asian Journal of Social Psychology
2022
The role of Australian local government in economic development: Building international engagement capacity, The role of Australian local government in economic development: Building international engagement capacity
2021
Managing intense work demands: how child protection workers navigate their professional and personal lives, Community, Work & Family
2021
The double-edged sword of ethnic similarity for expatriates, Organizational Dynamics
2021
International education and graduate employability: Australian Chinese graduates’ experiences, Journal of Education and Work
2020
Psychological contract breach and organizational cynicism and commitment among self-initiated expatriates vs. host country nationals in the Chinese and Malaysian transnational education secto, Asia Pacific Journal of Management
2020
Moving beyond the baseline: Exploring the potential of experiments in language research, Managing Multilingual Workplaces
2020
How you see me, how you don’t: ethnic identity self-verification in interactions between local subsidiary employees and ethnically similar expatriates, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
2019
Having Entrepreneurial Friends and Following Them? The Role of Friends’ Displayed Emotions in Students’ Career Choice Intentions, Journal of Enterprising Culture
2018
An investigation of entrepreneurs venture persistence decision: the contingency effect of psychological ownership and adversity, Applied psychology: an international review.
2018
Managing Expatriates in China: A Language and Identity Perspective,
2018
The benefits of being understood: The role of ethnic identity confirmation in knowledge acquisition by expatriates, Human Resource Management
2017
Host Country Employees’ Ethnic Identity Confirmation: Evidence from Interactions with Ethnically Similar Expatriates, Journal of World Business
Grants and Contracts
2021
Australia-Japan local government collaboration: building sustainable and resilient communities
Role:
Chief investigator
Funding Source:
Australia-Japan Foundation
2018
Sister-City Partnerships: Building Australia-China Economic, Cultural and Educational Exchange