Faculty Profile

Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

Full-time Faculty

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources

2022	Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology University of Houston

2025 - Now	Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2023 - 2025	Assistant Professor College of Business and Management, University of Illinois Springfield

Scholar of the Year Award, College of Business and Management, University of Illinois Springfield, 2024

Liu, Z., Hoff, K., Chu, C., Oswald, F, & Rounds, J. (2025). Towards whole-person fit assessment: Integrating interests, values, skills, knowledge, and personality using the O*NET. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(5), 623–647. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001232
- Selected as Journal of Applied Psychology Editor’s Choice, May 2025

Wen, X., Liu, Z.*, Qiu, F., Leavitt, K., Wang, X., & Tang, Z. (2025). A power dependence model of the impact of leader impostorism on supervisor support and undermining: The moderating role of power distance. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001265

Chu, C., Hoff, K., Liu, Z., Heimpel, N.F., Greco, A., Oswald, F., & Rounds, J. (2025). Interest fit beyond the RIASEC: the comprehensive assessment of basic interests—O*NET (CABIN-NET). Journal of Career Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/106907272513225

Heimpel, N. F., Hoff, K., Liu, Z., Chu, C., Oswald, F. L., & Rounds, J. (2025). Expanding links between work values and occupations: Development of the occupational values inventory (OVI). Journal of Career Assessment. Accepted for publication.

Huai, M., Wen, X., Liu, Z., Wang, X., Li, W., & Wang, M. (2024). Does voice endorsement by supervisors enhance or constrain voicer’s personal initiative? Countervailing effects via feeling pride and feeling envied. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(9), 1408–1430. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001191

Hotze, M.L., Liu, Z. *, Chu, C., Baranski, E., & Hoff, K. (2024). Short-term personality development and early career success: Two longitudinal studies during the post-graduation transition. Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12922 Eisenberger, R., Wen, X., Zheng, D., Yu, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, J., ... & Kim, T. H. (2025). Does felt obligation or gratitude better explain the relationship between perceived organizational support and outcomes?. Group & Organization Management, 50(1), 243–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011231180

Wang, X., Wen, X., Liu, Z., Gao, Y. L., & Madera, J. M. (2025). When leaders self-sacrifice in the time of crisis: The roles of employee emotional suppression and leader coping styles. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 66(1), 37–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/19389655231223370

Baranski, E., Martinez, R. L., Liu, Z., & Hoff, K. (2024). Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce. Journal of Research in Personality, 114, 104549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104549

He, M., Xu, L., Li, C., Liu, Z., Hu, J., Guo, X., ... & Zhang, J. (2024). Do real-time strategy video gamers have better attentional control?. Human Factors, 66(1), 258–270. https://doi.org /10.1177%2F00187208211064683

Liu, Z., Hoff, K., Baranski, E., Snyder, G., Flin, R., Lindner, P., & Spitzmueller, C. (2023). Mindfulness and workplace safety: An integrative review. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(8), 1263–1282. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2705 Oswald, F. L., Courey, K. A., & Liu, Z. (2023). Knowledge, skills, and workforce development: Commentary on Ackerman (2023). American Psychologist, 78(3), 298–300. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001127

Mesdaghinia, S., Eisenberger, R., Wen, X.*, Liu, Z.*, Lewis, B. A., Qiu, F., & Shapiro, D. L. (2023). How leaders drive followers’ unethical behavior. Journal of Management, 49(7), 2318–2353. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221104031

Wang, X., Wen, X., Liu, Z., Jiang, Y., & Huai, M. (2023). Leader apology in the employee–organization relationship: The roles of subordinate power distance belief and leader competence. Tourism Management, 96, 104694.

Wang, X., Liu, Z., Wen, X., & Xiao, Q. (2022). An implicit leadership theory lens on leader humility and employee outcomes: Examining individual and organizational contingencies. Tourism Management, 89, 104448.

Liu, Z., Van Egdom, D., Flin, R., Spitzmueller, C., Adepoju, O., & Krishnamoorti, R. (2020). I don’t want to go back: Examining the return to physical workspaces during COVID-19. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62(11), 953–958.

Sheng, X., Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Guo, H., Da, S., & Zhou, S. (2018). Sleep and work: The interactive mechanism. Advances in Psychological Science, 26(10), 1844–1856.

zihanliu@smu.edu.sg