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Huiwen Lian

Professor
Lawrence E. Fouraker Professorship in Business Administration
Department of Management

Education

Ph.D. University of Waterloo
M.A. Beijing Normal University
B.S. Beijing Normal University

Research Interest

Leadership, Work motivation, Workplace deviance

Courses Taught

MGMT 622
MGMT 683
MGMT 634

Biography

Huiwen Lian is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at the Mays Business School. Prior to joining Mays, Huiwen was an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Kentucky and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on leadership, motivation, and workplace deviance. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology, among others. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology.

Research Publications

Hu, D., Deng, Y., Song, Y., Lian, H., Daniels, S., Yang, M., & Chen, W. (2024). Gossiping the (recipient’s) day away: The impact of supervisor-directed gossip on recipients’ rumination, sleep quality, vitality, and work outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109, 1311-1326.

Huai, M., Lian, H., Farh, J.L., & Wang, H. (2024). Leaders’ impulsive versus strategic abuse, goal realization, and subsequent supportive behaviors: A self-regulation perspective. Journal of Management, 50, 793-825.

Zhong, R., Lian, H., Hershcovis, S., & Robinson, S. (2023). Mitigating or magnifying the harmful influence of workplace aggression: An integrative review. Academy of Management Annals, 17, 516-545.

Lian, H., Li, J., Pan, J., Du, C., & Zhao, Q. (2023). Are gossipers looked down upon? A norm-based perspective on the relation between gossip and gossiper status. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108, 905-933.

Lian, H., Li, J., Du, C., Wu, W., Xia, Y., & Lee, C. (2022). Disaster or opportunity? How COVID–19–associated changes in environmental uncertainty and job insecurity relate to organizational identification and performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 693-706.

Lian, H., Huai, M., Farh, J.L., Huang, J.C., Lee, C., & Chao, M.M. (2022). Leaders’ unethical pro-organizational behaviors and employee unethical conduct: Social learning of moral disengagement as a behavioral principle. Journal of Management, 48, 350-379.