Education

July 2015-March 2020            Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

September 2012-June 2015   M.A., Business Administration, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

September 2008-June 2012   B.A., Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China 

Work Experience

September 2020-Present   Assistant Professor, Department of Organization and Human Resources, Renmin University of China

June 2020-August 2020     Research Fellow, Department of Leadership, Management, and Organization, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Leadership

Business and behavioral ethics

Decision making

Organizational Behavior (English) (Undergraduate)

Social Psychology (PhD student)

Selected Academic Articles

(*Denotes equal authorship; †Denotes corresponding author)

1. Feng, Z.*, Zou, K. R.*, & Savani, K. (2023). Cultural antecedents of virus transmission: Individualism is associated with lower compliance with social distancing rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(3), 461–482.

2. Feng, Z. Y., Keng-Highberger, F., Li, H., & Savani, K. (2023). Implicit Morality Theories: Employees’ Beliefs About the Malleability of Moral Character Shape Their Workplace Behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 184(1), 193-216.

3. Feng, Z. Y. *, Keng-Highberger, F. *, Yam, K. C., Chen, X. P., & Li, H. (2023). Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How and When Machiavellian Leaders Demonstrate Strategic Abuse. Journal of Business Ethics, 184(1), 255-280.

4. Feng, Z. Y., & Savani, K. (2023). When do employees help abused coworkers? It depends on their own experience with abusive supervision. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-18.

5. Bai, Y. *, Feng, Z. Y. *, Pinto, J., & Savani, K. (2023). A novel bias in managers' allocation of bonuses to teams: Emphasis on team size instead of team contribution. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 36(4), e2336.

6. Loi, T. I., Feng, Z. Y. †, Kuhn, K. M., & Tripp, T. M. (2021). When and How Underdog Expectations Promote Cheating Behavior: The Roles of Need Fulfillment and General Self-efficacy. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-21.

7. Feng, Z. Y. *, Liu, Y. K. *, Wang, Z., Savani, K. (2020). Let’s choose one of each: Using the partition dependence effect to increase diversity in organizations. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 158, 11-26.

8. Feng, Z. Y. & Savani, K. (2020). Covid-19 created a gender gap in perceived work productivity and job satisfaction: Implications for dual-career parents working from home. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 35, 719-736.

9. Feng, Z. Y., Liu, Y. K., Wang, Z., Savani, K. (2020). Research: A method for overcoming implicit bias when considering job candidates. Harvard Business Review.  

10. Sheetal, A.* †, Feng, Z. Y.* †, & Savani, K†. (2020). Using machine learning to generate novel hypotheses: Increasing optimism about Covid-19 makes people less willing to justify unethical behaviors. Psychological Science, 31, 1222-1235.

Selected Research Grants

1. Investigator for a Research Grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 72102225): Nudging: Research on the Nudge Mechanism of Reducing Discrimination in Personnel Recruitment. January 2022-December 2024                                                  about $37,300

2. Investigator for a Research Grant from Renmin University of China: A Study on the Underlying Mechanism of the Effect of Implicit Morality Theory on Employee Unethical Behavior (Project No. KYGJC2021007). September 2021-December 2022                                          about $7,860

3. Investigator for a Research Grant from Renmin University of China: A Study on Examining Abusive Supervision from the Third-Party Perspective (Project No. 21XNF029). January 2021-March 2022                       about $7,860

4. Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant, 2019           about $1,450

5. Co-investigator for a Research Grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 71572076): The multiple impacts of relative leader-member exchange on employee work psychology and behavior: the lens of relative deprivation theory. January 2016-December 2019        about $92,500

Other Appointments

Honors and Awards

Best Reviewer Award, Management and Organization Review, 2022

Best Paper Award, Academy of Management OB Division, 2022

2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2021

A Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award, co-sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows Group and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM)

Runner Up for Saroj Parasuraman Award, 2021, sponsored by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division of AOM

IACMR Best Reviewer of Micro English Track, 2021

Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund Grant, IACMR, 2019

Excellent Master's Thesis, Nanjing University, 2015

National Scholarship, Education Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, 2014

Provincial-Level Outstanding Student Leaders Awards, Education Department of Jiangsu Province, China, 2012

Provincial-Level Student Merit Awards, Education Department of Jiangsu Province, China, 2011

National Scholarship, Education Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, 2010

Other Appointments

Editorial board, Management and Organization Review, 2021-present