Education
Ph.D. Department of Organization and Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Sept 2015 - Dec 2020
B.Sc. Department of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Sept 2011 - Jun 2015
Overseas Visiting and Training
Visiting scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sept 2018 - Sept 2019
Courses Taught （2021-2024）
Undergraduate students: Employee Training and Development
Master students and international master students: Organizational Behavior
Work Experiences
Jan 2021 - Present：Assistant Professor, Department of Human Resources and Organizational Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017 ：Research assistant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Research Interests
Leadership; Proactivity; Decision Making; Implicit Theories
Representative Research Projects
1. Bai, Y. (PI), “The impact of new leader perceived differences between self and leader prototype on their adaptation outcomes: Leader-centric implicit leadership theory” (01/2022-12/2024). Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholar (Grant ID: 72102081, amount: 300, 000 RMB).
2. Bai, Y. (CO-PI), “Core dimension, antecedents, consequences, and dynamic development of relationship quality based on a boundary-spanning work role context” (2019.1-2022.12). Supported by the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant ID: 71872143, amount: 480, 000 RMB).
3. Bai, Y. (CO-PI), “Research on the mechanisms of cross-cultural team creativity” (2018.3-2020.3). Supported by the Research Planning Foundation Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education in China (Grant ID: 18YJA630050, 100, 000 RMB).
Representative Research Papers
1. Li, F., Chen, T., Bai, Y., Liden, R. C., Wong, M.-N., & Qiao, Y. (2023). Serving while being energized (strained)? A dual-path model linking servant leadership to leader psychological strain and job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(4): 660-675. (FT50) https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001041
2. Bai, Y., Feng, Z., Savani, K., Pinko, J. (2023). A novel bias in managers' allocation of bonuses to teams: Emphasis on team size instead of team contribution. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(4), e2336. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2336
3. Bai, Y., Wang, J., Chen, T., & Li, F. (2020). Learning from supervisor negative gossip: The reflective learning process and performance outcome of employee receivers. Human Relations, 73(12): 1689-1717. (FT50) https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267198662
4. Li, F., Chen, T., Chen, Y. N., Bai, Y., & Crant, J. M. (2020). Proactive yet reflective? Materializing proactive personality into creativity through job reflective learning and activated positive affective states. Personnel Psychology, 73(3): 459-489. (ABS 4) https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12370
5. Bai, Y. & Zhang S. Taking in to Thinking Creatively: Neutralizing Negative Effects of Expertise Dependence through LMX. Paper accepted at 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
6. Bai, Y., Feng, Z., & Job, V. Implicit theories about willpower: Roles of employees' and coworkers' nonlimited willpower beliefs on job persistence and performance. Paper presented at 82th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA.
7. Fan, P., Bai, Y., & Chen, T. How and when positive feedback seeking benefits supervisor-rated promotability: Roles of role breadth self-efficacy and flexible role orientation. Paper presented at 82th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA.
8. Bai, Y., Wang, J., Chen, T., & Li, F. (2019). Learning from supervisor negative gossip: The reflective learning process. Paper presented at 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
9. Li, H., Li, F., & Bai, Y. (2018). Motivational cognitive Model of creativity and the role of autonomy. Paper presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
