Education

2013.09-2018.07   Ph.D., School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 

2016.09-2017.09   Visiting scholar, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, U.S. 

2009.09-2013.07   B.A., China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China

Work Experience

2021.09-present  Associate Professor, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China   

2018.09-2021.08  Assistant Professor, Renmin Business School, Renmin University of China

Innovation; Creativity; Leadership; Proactivity; Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Organizational Behavior；Advanced Topics in Creativity Research

Selected Academic Articles

(Note: * denotes corresponding author；† denotes equal contribution)

Top-tier Journals

1. Venkataramani, V., Derfler-Rozin, R., Liu*, X., Mao, J.-Y. (2023, in press). Keep off my turf! Low-status managers’ territoriality as a response to employees’ novel ideas. Organization Science.

2. Liu, X., Zhang, L., Gupta, A., Zheng*, X., Wu, C. (2022). Upper echelons and intra-organizational learning: How executive narcissism affects knowledge transfer among business units. Strategic Management Journal, 43(11), 2351-2381.

3. Liu*†, X., Liao†, H., Derfler-Rozin†, R., Zheng†, X., Wee, E., & Qiu, F. (2020). In line and out of the box: How ethical leaders help offset the negative effect of morality on creativity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(12), 1447-1465.

4. Yang†, L., Zheng†, X., Liu*, X., Lu*, C., Schaubroeck, J. (2020). Abusive supervision, thwarted belongingness, and workplace safety: A group engagement perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(3), 230-244.

5. Li†, N., Zheng†*, X., Harris, T. B., Liu, X., & Kirkman, B. L. (2016). Recognizing “me” benefits “we”: Investigating the positive spillover effects of formal individual recognition in teams. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(7), 925-939.

6. Venkataramani, V., Bartol, K., Zheng*, X., Lu, S., & Liu, X. (2022). Not very competent but connected: Leaders’ use of employee social networks as prisms to make delegation decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(3), 458–480.

7. Lu, S., Bartol, K., Venkataramani, V., Zheng, X., & Liu, X. (2019). Pitching novel ideas to the boss: The interactive effects of employees’ idea enactment and influence tactics on creativity assessment and implementation. Academy of Management Journal, 62(2), 579-606.

FT 50 Journals

8. Liu, X., Derfler-Rozin, R., Mao*, J-Y, Schaubroeck, J., & Zhou*, Q. (2024, in press). Unraveling mentors’ positive and negative reactions to protégés’ taking charge. Journal of Management.

9. Liu, X., Zheng, X., Yu*, Y., Zhang, Y., & Schaubroeck, J. (2024, in press). A functional model of social loafing: When and how does social loafing enhance job performance? Journal of Business Ethics.

10. Liu, X., Lee, B., Kim, Tae-Yeol, Gong, Y., Zheng*, X. (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.

11. Liu, X., Zheng*, X., Li, N., Yu, Y., Harms, P., & Yang, J. (2022). Both a curse and a blessing? A social cognitive approach to the paradoxical effects of leader narcissism. Human Relations, 75(11), 2011-2038.

12. Zhang, Y., Liu*, X., Xu*, S., Yang, L. & Bednall, T. (2019). Why abusive supervision impacts employee OCB and CWB: A meta-analytic review of competing mediating mechanisms. Journal of Management, 45(6), 2474-2497.

13. Qin*†, X., Liu†, X., Brown†, J., Zheng†, X., & Owens†, B. (2021). Humility harmonized? Exploring whether and how leader and employee humility (in)congruence influences employee citizenship and deviance behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(1), 147-165.

14. Zheng†, X., Qin*†, X., Liu†, X., &, Liao†, H. (2019). Will creative employees always make trouble? Investigating the roles of moral identity and moral disengagement. Journal of Business Ethics, 157(3), 653-672.

15. Lee, B. Y., Kim, Tae-Yeol, Gong, Y., Zheng*, X., & Liu, X. (2020). Employee well-being attribution and job change intentions: The moderating effect of task idiosyncratic deals. Human Resource Management, 59(4), 327-338.

16. Hu, J., Zheng, X., Tepper, B. J., Li*, N., Liu, X., & Yu, J. (2022). The dark side of leader-member exchange: Observers’ reactions when leaders target their teammates for abuse. Human Resource Management, 61(2), 199–213.

Distinguished Journals

17. Liu, X., Zhang*, Y., Chen*, W., Li, W., & Ni, D. (2023). Bringing contribution-receipt (im)balance to team-member exchange research: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44, 621-642.

18. Liu, X., Zheng, X., Ni*, D., & Harms, P. (2022). Employee voice and coworker support: The roles of employee job demands and coworker voice expectation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(7), 1271-1286.

19. Liu, X., Zheng, X., Yu*, Y., Owens, B. P., & Ni, D. (2022). How and when team average individual mindfulness facilitates team mindfulness: The roles of team relational stress and team individual mindfulness diversity. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(3), 430-447.

20. Liu, X., Zheng, X., Lee, B. Y., Yu*, Y., & Zhang*, M. (2023). COVID-19 and employee job performance trajectories: The moderating effect of different sources of status. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 142, 103862.

21. Liu, X., Mao*, J-Y, Chiang, J. T-J, Guo, L., & Zhang, S. (2023). When and why does voice sustain or stop? The roles of leader behaviours, power differential perception and psychological safety. Applied Psychology, 72, 1209–1247.

22. Mao, J.-Y., Quan, J., Liu*, X., & Zheng, X. (2022). Too drained to obey! A daily study on how workplace envy fosters employee deviance and the buffering role of ethical leadership. Applied Psychology, 71(4), 1304–1325.

23. Liu, X., Mao, J.-Y., Zheng*, X., Ni, D., & Harms, P. D. (2022). When and why narcissism leads to taking charge? The roles of coworker narcissism and employee comparative identity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 95(4), 758-787.

24. Zheng, X., Ni, D., Liu*, X., Zhang, M. (2023). A mixed blessing? State mindfulness change, ego depletion and counterproductive work behaviour. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96, 308-331.

25. Zheng†, X., Zhao†, H. H., Liu*, X., & Li, N. (2019). Network reconfiguration: The implications of recognizing top performers in teams. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 92(4), 825-847.

26. Ni, D., Liu*, X., & Zheng, X. (2024). Render good for evil? The relationship between customer mistreatment and customer-oriented citizenship behavior. Journal of Business Research, 170, 114349.

27. Zheng†, X., Liu†*, X., Liao†, H., Qin†, X., & Ni, D. (2022). How and when top manager authentic leadership influences team voice: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Business Research, 145, 144-155.

28. Zhang, Y., Liu*, X., Chen*, W. (2020). Fight and flight: A contingency model of third parties’ approach-avoidance reactions to peer abusive supervision. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35(6), 767-782.

29. Zhou, Q., Mao, J-Y, Liu*, X., & Ning, X. (2022). The impacts of distinct motives on promotive and prohibitive voice: The differential moderating role of perceived voice level. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37(3), 601–613.

30. Zheng, X., Ni, D., Liu*, X., & Liang, L. H. (2023). Workplace mindfulness: Multidimensional model, scale development and validation. Journal of Business and Psychology, 38, 777–801.

31. Ni, D., Liu*, X., Zheng, X. (2022). How and when does service performance improve positive emotions? An employee-customer social exchange perspective. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31(3), 367-382.

32. Mao, J.-Y., Mu, X. & Liu*, X. (2021), Discouraging gender-biased job seekers by adapting job advertisements. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 36(2), 170-182.

33. Mao, J-Y., Zhang*, Y., Chen, L., & Liu, X. (2019). Consequences of supervisor self-interested behavior: A moderated mediation. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 34(3), 126-138.

34. Zhang, Y., Guo*, Y., Zhang, M., Xu, S., Liu, X., & Newman, A. (2022). Antecedents and outcomes of authentic leadership across culture: A meta-analytic review. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 39(4), 1399–1435.

35. Zhang, Y., Zheng, Y., Zhang*, L., Xu, S., Liu, X., & Chen, W. (2021). A meta-analytic review of the consequences of servant leadership: The moderating roles of cultural factors. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38(1), 371–400.

36. Mao, J-Y., Xiao*, J., Liu, X., Qing, T., & Xu, H. (2023). Emulating coworkers: How and when coworker ideation facilitates employee ideation. Creativity Research Journal, 31, 99-115.

37. Liu, X., Zhang*, Y., & Liu, C. H. (2017). How does leader other-emotion appraisal influence employees? The multilevel dual affective mechanisms. Small Group Research, 48(1), 93-114.

38. Ni, D., Liu*, X., & Zheng, X. M. (2021). How do subordinates react to perceived narcissistic supervision? The roles of perceived interactional justice and need for belonging. Baltic Journal of Management, 16(4), 621-637.

39. Zheng, X. & Liu*, X. (2017). The buffering effect of mindfulness on abusive supervision and creative performance: A social cognitive framework. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1588.

40. Qin, X., Liao, H., Zheng, X., & Liu, X. (2019). Stock market exposure and anxiety in a turbulent market: Evidence from China. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 328.

41. Kirkman, B. L., Li, N., Zheng, X., Harris, T. B., & Liu, X. (2016). Teamwork works best when top performers are rewarded. Harvard Business Review (on-line).

42. Zheng, X. & Liu*, X. (2016). The effect of interactional justice on employee well-being: The mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of power distance. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 48, 693-709. (in Chinese)

43. Zheng, X., Yu*, Y., & Liu, X. (2022). The effect of spouse emotional intelligence on employee work engagement: The mediating role of employee life well-being and the moderating role of gender. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 54(5), 1-19. (in Chinese) 

44. Liu, X., Yu, Y., Qin, X., & Zheng*, X. (2019). The trickle-down effect of top manager servant leadership on frontline employee service performance: The moderation role of middle manager service orientation. Science of Science and Management of S.&.T., 40(9), 135-151. (in Chinese) 

45. Xu, M., Liu*, X., Zheng, X., Ren, N. (2019). The effects of the perception of organizational change meaning on employees’ work outcomes: Work engagement and work burnout as dual mediation mechanisms. Science of Science and Management of S.&.T., 40(5), 134-149. (in Chinese) 

46. Ni, D., Zheng, X., Liu*, X., & Zhang, M. (2021). How and when does team mindfulness influence team effectiveness?——Using Company A in the manufacturing industry as an example. Science of Science and Management of S.&.T., 42, 164-186. 

47. Zheng, X., Ni, D., Liu*, X. (2019). The effect of mindfulness on work-to-family enrichment: Evidence from experience sampling methods. Chinese Journal of Management, 16(3), 360-368. (in Chinese) 

48. Zheng, X., Yu*, Y., Liu, X. (2020). The impacts of high performance work systems on service workers’ emotional labor: A multi-level model. Science of Science and Management of S.&.T., 41(11), 132-145. (in Chinese) 

49. Zhou, Q., Liu*, X., & Li, D. (2022). Multi-level influences of organization digital transformation and an open integrated research framework. Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University (Social Sciences), 42(3), 10-19. 

50. Liu*, X. & Zhang, M. (2019). Narcissism: A double-edged sword for leaders. Tsinghua Business Review, 68, 73-81. (in Chinese) 

51. Liu, X., Li, L., & Zheng, X. (2022). How do companies maintain both creativity and morality? Tsinghua Business Review, 6, 26-33. (in Chinese)

Honors and Awards

2023, Best Research Award 2023, Renmin Business School Renmin University of China

2023, Excellent Class Teacher of 2022, Renmin University of China

2022, Excellent Advisor of Undergraduate Thesis, Renmin University of China

2022, Responsible Research in Business and Management Honor Roll, RRBM

2021, Model Class Teacher of 2020-2021, Renmin University of China

2021, “Distinguished Scholar” Young Scholar (A), Renmin University of China

2020, The 8th Outstanding Scientific Research Award of Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), the 2nd award, Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China

2018, Outstanding Graduates, Beijing

2018, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University

2017, National Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2016, National Scholarship, Tsinghua University

2014, Emerald/IACMR Chinese Management Research Fund Award, Emerald Group Publishing Limited and International Association for Chinese Management Research