Jia Lin Xie

Professor, Rotman School of Management

xiejl@rotman.utoronto.ca

www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Xie

Areas of interest

Job Stress, Job Design, and Cross-Cultural Management
Leading People in Organizations
Organizational Behaviour
International Organizational Behaviour
Comparative Management
Business Research Methodology
Managerial Skills
Business Ethics
Chinese Management

Biography

Jia Lin Xie is a Professor in Management and Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HR Management at Rotman. Her research focuses on the fit between employees and their work environment (P-E fit) and the effects of such fit and misfit on employee well-being. Another area of her research expertise is cross-cultural management, with a focus on Chinese organizational behavior. Jia Lin has served at editorial boards for Journal of Organizational Behavior (2006-2011) and Management and Organization Review (2003 and onward), and currently serves as the President for International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR).

Select publications

Papers

Research on job stress and employee well-being: An overview and direction for future research
When confidence comes and goes: How variation in self-efficacy moderates stressor-strain relationships
Commitment to organizational change in a Chinese Context
Theories of job stress and the role of traditional values: A longitudinal study in China
Understanding the domain of counterproductive work behaviors in China
Cultural and individual differences in self-rating behavior: An extension and refinement of the cultural relativity hypothesis
Cultural and personality determinants of leniency in self-rating among Chinese people
Cherishing life and managing health: An analysis of stressors and coping mechanisms among Chinese executives

Books and Chapters

Questionnaire survey method in empirical research. In X. Chen, A. Tsui, & J. L. Farh (Eds.), Research Methodology
Sources and moderators of employee stress in Chinese state-owned enterprises
Characteristics associated with leadership: An investigation of senior executives
Job scope and stress: Can job scope be too high?

Awards & recognition

2016 Best Senior Editor, Management and Organization Review
2016 Rotman School of Management Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
2015 Roger Martin Excellence in Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
2015 Best Paper Award (with Li, W., Schaubroeck, J.), the 9th Asia Academy of Management Conference (Organizational Behavior Division)
2015-2019Grant from National Nature Science Foundation of China, National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2015 Outstanding Reviewer, 16th Biennial Eastern Academy of Management International Conference
2014Best Reviewer Award, Management and Organization Review
2013 Outstanding Paper Award, 15th Biennial Eastern Academy of Management International Conference
2012-2014 General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grant Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
2009-2012 General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grant Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
2008-2011 Two grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),
2007-2010 Honoured Director, Centre for Research on Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
2006-2007 AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship Grant, Rotman School of Management
2002 Grant of Initiative on the New Economy (INE), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
2001, 1994 Grant of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),
2000 Direct Allocation Research Grant (DAG), City University of Hong Kong
1998 Strategic Research Grant (SRG),(with J. Schaubroeck and S. Lam), City University of Hong Kong
1998 Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CERG) (with J. Schaubroeck and S. Lam), Hong Kong Government
2010-2013;1996-1997, 2002-2006 Excellence in Teaching Award, Rotman School of Management
1993 Cannaught Grant, University of Toronto
1991 Honourable Mention Award, (with G. Johns and Y.Q. Fang), Administrative Sciences Association of Canada