Wang Zheng
Title: Associate Researcher
Tel: (86) (531) 88365157
Email: wangzheng@sdu.edu.cn
Research Areas: Leadership Traits and Behaviors, Team Social Networks, Team Behaviors

Education Background
Post-doctoral Fellow, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Ph.D., Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Business School, South Korea
MS in Management, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Bachelor in School of Economics, Shandong Normal University

Honors & Awards
1. 2014-2016 Full Scholarship for Excellent Doctoral Students of Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea.
2. The Best Paper Award, ICAMA 2016, China.
3. The Best Paper Award, 2015 China Future Leadership Academic Research Competition ($3,000), South Korea.
4. Best Business Case Writing Award, 2014 International Conference of Korean Science Association (KSMS), South Korea.

Social Services
Member of Academy of Management (AOM)
Member of International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
Member of Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP)


Organizational Behavior, Social investigation and statistical Analysis, Human resource management

Papers Published
1. Asking how to fish vs. asking for fish: Antecedents and consequences of different help-seeking behaviors in teams. Personnel Psychology (In Press). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/peps.12479
2. Leading against gender stereotypes: the positively deviant effect of female leaders’ personal need for structure on average team member performance. Current Psychology (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01227-9
3. We have emotions but can’t show them! Authoritarian leadership, emotion suppression climate, and team performance. Human Relations (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720908649
4. “Working hard or hardly working?” How supervisor liking of an employee affects the judgment of employee working overtime and performance ratings. Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-020-09715-z
5. How marketing factors influence online browsing and sales: evidence from China’s e-commerce market. Journal of Applied Business Research (2018), 34(2), 253-264.


Conference Papers
1. Socialization from Socializing: Interpersonal Influences on Newcomer Socialization. Symposium Co-Chair. Symposium accepted at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2020, August Vancouver, BC.
2. Is Help in Need Always Help Indeed? Investigating the Antecedents and Consequences of Helping-seeking Behaviors in Teams. Paper accepted at the 15th Annual INGRoup Conference, 2020, July, Seattle, WA.
3. A Trickle-Down Effect of Paradoxical Leadership on Employee Radical Creativity. Paper accepted at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), 2020, April, Austin, TX.
4. How Supervisor Liking of an Employee Affects the Judgment of Working Overtime and Performance Ratings. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), 2019, April, Washington, DC.
5. The Antecedents of a Reverse Channel Strategic Choice in Ecommerce Platforms. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the AMA, 2018, August, Boston, MA.
6. The Impact of Online Dynamic Presentation Format on Consumer Preferences for High-tech Products. Paper presented at the 2016 International Conference of Asian Marketing Association, 2016, October, Beijing, China. *Best Paper Award Nominees.


1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, general project, outspoken or unspoken? A Study on the Connotation of Indirect Communication and its Impact on Subordinates in The Chinese Context, 2021-2024. (Organizer)