Head
Yaping GONG
Fung Term Professor of Management Chair Professor
mnygong@ust.hk
CV
Yaping GONG

Research Interests

  • Employee creativity
  • Goal orientation
  • Strategic human resource management
  • International human resource management
  • HRM/OB issues in China

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior
  • M.A. Renmin University of China, Human Resources Management
  • B.S. Renmin University of China, Personnel Management

Academic And Professional Experience

  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Management, Fung Term Professor of Management since July 2019, Chair Professor, since July 2018, Professor, 2014-2018, Associate Professor, 2008-2014, Assistant Professor, 2002 - 2007

Publications

Refereed Journal Publications (Chronological, alphabetical)

  • Chen, T., *Kim, T. Y., *Gong, Y., & Liang, Y. In press. Competence drives interest or vice versa? Untangling the bidirectional relationships between creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for creativity in shaping employee creativity. Journal of Management Studies. *Equal contribution.

  • Kim, M., Jeong, I., Bae, J., & Gong, Y. In press. High-performance work system and organizational resilience process: The case of firms during a global crisis. Journal of Applied Psychology.

  • *Mao, K. X., & *Gong, Y. In press. The contingent effect of private entrepreneur foreign-study experience on firm innovation in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. *Equal contribution.

  • *Magni, F., *Gong, Y., Li, J., Pan, J., & Zhou, M. In press. The paradoxical relationship between sense of power and creativity: Countervailing pathways and a boundary condition. Personnel Psychology. *Equal contribution.

  • *Zhang, R. X., *Gong, Y., & Zhou, M. 2023. Crossing the domain: Unintended consequences of safety and service climates. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108: 1699-1716. *Equal contribution

  • *Ling, C., *He, W., *Gong, Y., Liu, W., & Cho, V. 2023. Does receiving knowledge catalyze creativity? A dyadic-level contingency model of knowledge type and psychological closeness on knowledge elaboration. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44: 1436-1463. *Equal contribution

  • *Jeong, I, *Gong, Y., & Zhong, B.J. 2023. Does an employee-experienced crisis help or hinder creativity? An integration of threat-rigidity and implicit theories. Journal of Management, 49: 1394-1429. *Equal contribution.

  • Xin, L., Lee, B., Kim, T. Y., Gong, Y., & Zheng, X. M. 2023. Double-edged effects of creative personality on moral disengagement and unethical behaviors: Dual motivational mechanisms and a situational contingency. Journal of Business Ethics, 185: 449-466.

  • Zhong, B.J., Gong, Y., Shenkar, O., Luo, Y., Zhao, S.M., & Xiao, Z. 2023. Managing the hearts of boundary spanners: CEO organizational identification and international joint venture performance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 40: 87–119.

  • Li, Y., Shao, Y., Wang, M., Fang, Y., Gong, Y., & Li, C. 2022. From inclusive climate to organizational innovation: Examining internal and external enablers for knowledge management capacity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107: 2285-2305.

  • *Chang, S., *Leung, W.K., *Yao, K., & *Gong, Y. 2022. Firm employee relations system and financial performance: Unfolding the dual-causal relationship and the associated temporal and resource boundary conditions. International Journal of Human Resource Management , 33: 3591-3628. * Equal contribution.

    • 2022 Second Runner-up of the Michael Poole Best Paper Award

  • Magni, F., Gong, Y, & Chao, M. 2021. A longitudinal examination of the reciprocal relationship between goal orientation and performance: The mediating role of self-efficacy. Personality and Individual Differences, 179: 110960.

  • *Chen, L., *Gong, Y., Song, Y., & Wang, M. 2021. From creative environment to administrative innovation: Creation and implementation in top management teams. Journal of Creative Behavior, 55: 604-621. *Equal contribution.

  • *Ma, Z.X., *Gong, Y., Long, L.R., & Zhang, Y. 2021. Team-level high-performance work systems, self-efficacy and creativity: Differential moderating roles of person–job fit and goal difficulty. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32: 478-511. *Equal contribution.

  • Zhang, R., Li, A., & Gong, Y. 2021. Too much of a good thing: Examining the curvilinear relationship between team-level proactive personality and team performance. Personnel Psychology, 74: 295-321.

  • Li, Y., Gong, Y., Burmeister, A., Wang, M., Alterman, V., Alonso, A., & Robinson, S. 2021. Leveraging age diversity for organizational performance: An intellectual capital perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106: 71–91.

  • Mao, J., Chang, S., Gong, Y., & Xie, J. 2021. Team job-related anxiety and creativity: Investigating team-level and cross-level moderated curvilinear relationships. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42: 34–47.

  • Lee, B., Kim, T.Y., Gong, Y., Zheng, X.M. & Xin, L. 2020. Employee well-being HR attribution and job change intentions: The moderating effect of task idiosyncratic deals. Human Resource Management, 59: 327-338.

  • Gong, Y., Kim, T.Y., & Liu, Z. 2020. Diversity of social ties and creativity: Creative self-efficacy as mediator and tie strength as moderator. Human Relations, 73: 1664-1688.

  • Kim, H., & Gong, Y. 2017. Effects of work-family and family-work conflicts on flexible work arrangements demand: A gender role perspective. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28: 2936-2956.

  • Gong, Y., Wu, J., Song, J.W., & Zhang, Z. 2017. Dual tuning in creative processes: Joint contributions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102: 829-844.

  • Liu, D., Gong, Y., Zhou, J. & Huang, J. C. 2017. Human resource systems, employee creativity, and firm innovation: The moderating role of firm ownership. Academy of Management Journal, 60: 1164-1188.

    • 2019 IACMR-RRBM Award Finalist

  • Baranik, L., Wang, M., Gong, Y., & Shi, J. 2017. Customer mistreatment, employee health and job Performance: Examining cognitive and social rumination as mediating mechanisms. Journal of Management, 43: 1261-1282.

  • Gong, Y., Wang, M., Huang, J.C., & Cheung, S.Y. 2017. Toward a goal orientation-based feedback-seeking typology: Implications for employee performance outcomes. Journal of Management, 43: 1234-1260.

  • Liang, J., & Gong, Y. 2017. Human resource development investment in Chinese private firms: Strategic choice and institutional perspectives. Management and Organization Review, 13: 57-83.

  • Cheung, S.Y., Gong, Y., Wang, M., Zhou, L., & Shi, J. 2016. When and how does functional diversity influence team innovation? The mediating role of knowledge sharing and the moderation role of affect-based trust in a team. Human Relations, 69: 1507-1531.

  • Cheung, S.Y., Gong, Y., & Huang, J. C. 2016. Emotional intelligence, job insecurity and psychological strain among real estate agents: A test of mediation and moderation models. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27: 2673-2694.

  • Way, S., Tracey, B., Fey, C., Wright, P., Snell, S., Chang, S., & Gong, Y. 2015. Validation of a multi-dimensional HR flexibility measure. Journal of Management, 41: 1098-1131.

  • Liu, W., Gong, Y., & Liu, J. 2014. When do business units benefit more from collective citizenship behavior of management teams? An upper echelons perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99: 523-534.

  • Liang, J., & Gong, Y. 2013. Capitalizing on proactivity for informal mentoring received during early career: The moderating role of core self-evaluations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34: 1182-1201.

  • Chang, S., Gong, Y., Way, S., & Jia, L. 2013. Flexibility-oriented HRM systems, absorptive capacity, and firm innovativeness and market responsiveness. Journal of Management 39: 1924-1951.

  • Gong, Y., Zhou, J., & Chang, S. 2013. Core knowledge employee creativity and firm performance: The moderating role of riskiness orientation, firm size, and realized absorptive capacity. Personnel Psychology, 66: 443-482.

  • Wang, M., Liu, S., Liao, H., Gong, Y., Kammeyer-Mueller. J., & Shi, J. 2013. Can't get it out of my mind: Employee rumination after customer mistreatment and negative mood in the next morning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98: 989-1004.

  • Gong, Y., Kim, T.Y., Zhu, J., & Lee, D.R. 2013. A multilevel model of team goal orientation, information exchange, and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 56: 827-851.

    • Winner of 2016 Emerald Citations of Excellence Award

More Publications

Review Activities

  • Senior/Associate Editor:

    • Academy of Management Perspectives (2018-2021)

    • Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2010-2012)

    • Management and Organization Review (2013-2017)

  • Current Member of Editorial Board:

    • Academy of Management Journal

    • Journal of Management

  • Past Member of Editorial Board:

    • Journal of Applied Psychology

    • Journal of International Business Studies

    • Journal of Organizational Behavior

    • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

    • International Journal of Human Resource Management

  • Ad Hoc reviewers (partial listed):

    • Strategic Management Journal

    • Journal of World Business

    • European Management Journal

    • Human Relations

Funded Projects

  • Competitive General Research Fund (project 16502523: Beyond Support for Innovation Climate: Multiple Climates and Unintended Impacts on Team Innovation) (Jan. 1, 2024 – June 30, 2026). Principle investigator. Funding amount HK$442,257, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

  • Competitive research fund (SPPR21BM01 – The Development of Fintech, Insurtech, and Regtech Manpower to Sustain Hong Kong as a Leading Global Financial Center) (2021-2024). Co-investigator, HK$4,589,473, Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, HKSAR Government.

  • Competitive General Research Fund (GRF) (project 16501220: Feedback and Creativity) (Jan. 1, 2021 – Dec. 30, 2022). Principal investigator. Funding amount HK$551,394, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

  • Competitive General Research Fund (GRF) (project 16501418: Power and Creativity) (Jan. 1, 2019 – Feb. 28, 2021. Principal investigator. Funding amount HK$413,910, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

  • Competitive General Research Fund (GRF) (project 12503017: Knowledge and Creativity) (Jan. 1, 2018 – Feb. 29, 2020). Co-investigator. Funding amount HK$417,731, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

  • Competitive General Research Fund (GRF) (project 16514016: Crisis and Creativity) (Jan. 1, 2017 – June 30, 2019). Principal Investigator. Funding amount HK$458,000, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

  • Competitive research grant (Project 71672027) (Jan. 2017-Dec 2020). Co-investigator. National Natural Science Foundation (中国国家自然科学基金项目), China.

  • Competitive General Research Fund (GRF) (project 242012: functional diversity and innovation) (2012-2014). Co-investigator. Funding amount, HK$369,915, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR.

Honors And Awards

  • 2023.  Best Reviewers Award, Academy of Management Journal.

  • 2023. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

    • Chen, T. T., Kim, T. Y., Gong, Y., & Liang, Y. 2023. Directional relationship between creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in affecting creativity.  Paper accepted for presentation at the 2023 Academy of Management Conference, Boston, USA.

  • 2022. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

    • Magni, F., & Gong, Y. 2022. Warmth matters, not competence: AI recruiting and applicant attraction. Paper presented at the 2022 Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, Washington.

  • 2022. Second runner up of the Michael Poole Best Paper Award at International Journal of Human Resource Management

    • *Chang, S., *Leung, W.K., *Yao, K., & *Gong, Y. 2022. Firm employee relations system and financial performance: Unfolding the dual-causal relationship and the associated temporal and resource boundary conditions. International Journal of Human Resource Management , 33: 3591-3628. * Equal contribution.

  • 2019. Finalist for the IACMR-RRBM Award

    • Liu, D., Gong, Y., Zhou, J. & Huang, J. C. 2017. Human resource systems, employee creativity, and firm innovation: The moderating role of firm ownership. Academy of Management Journal, 60: 1164-1188.

  • 2017. Finalist for the 2017 Impact Award at Journal of Management.

    • Gong, Y., Cheung, S. Y., Wang, M., & Huang, J. C.2012. Unfolding the proactive process for creativity: Integration of the employee proactivity, information exchange, and psychological safety perspectives. Journal of Management, 38: 1611-1633.

  • 2016.  Best Reviewers Award, Academy of Management Journal.

  • 2016.  Recipient of the 2016 Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Management Reviews.

    • Gong, Y., Kim, T. Y., Zhu, J., & Lee, D. R. 2013. A multilevel model of team goal orientation, information exchange, and creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 56: 827-851.

  • 2016.  International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Conference Best Reviewers Award.

  • 2015 Fall.  Dean's Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance.

  • 2015.  Best Senior Editors Award, Management and Organization Review.

  • 2014.  Wiley list of top 100 most cited scholars in management (ranked 62nd) (2009-2014)

  • 2014.  Best Reviewer Award, Management and Organization Review.

  • 2013.  Recipient of the 2013 Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Management Reviews.

    • Gong, Y., Huang, J.C. & Farh, J. L. 2009. Employee learning orientation, transformational leadership, and employee creativity: The mediating role of employee creative self-efficacy. Academy of Management Journal, 52:765-778.

  • 2013.  Nominee for the 2013 Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, a prestigious All-Academy Award, by the Human Resource Division, Academy of Management.

    • Liu, D., Gong, Y., Zhou, J., & Huang, J.C. 2013. "Human resources management and employee creativity: A cross-level examination of underlying mechanisms". Paper accepted for presentation at the 2013 Academy of Management Conference, Orlando, Florida.