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. doi: 10.1037/apl0001041 (FT50, IF = 11.802)
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. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2336（ABS3，IF=2.3）
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.doi: 10.1177/0018726719866250 (FT50, IF = 5.658)
4. Li, F., Chen, T., Chen, N. Y. F., 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. Doi: 10.1111/peps.12370 (ABS4, IF = 4.7)
5. Bai, Y. (2025). Reducing the Risk of Burnout: Role of Implicit Theories About Willpower and Break Entitlement. Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.
6. Bai, Y., Qin, Y. X., & Zheng, L. (2025). From Colleagues to AI: How AI is Redefining Help-Seeking Behaviors in the Workplace. Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.
7.Bai, Y., & Pinko, J. (2025). Managers’ and Employees’ Judgment and Decision Making: Novel Theoretical and Empirical Insights. Paper presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark.
8.Zhang, S. X., & Bai, Y., (2024). Taking in to Thinking Creatively: Roles of Expertise Dependence, Information Elaboration, and LMX. Paper presented at 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.
9.Bai, Y., Feng, Z., & Job, V. (2022). 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.
10.Fan, P., Bai, Y., & Chen, T. (2022). 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.
11.Bai, Y., & Li, F. (2020). Triadic effects of gossip: Gossip receivers’ target-focused emotions as mediators. Paper was accepted by 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) symposium session, online virtual meeting.
12.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 (AOM), Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
