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Associate professor, Deakin University

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
    Role:
    Chief investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australia-China Council