Hongguo Wei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management (Management)
wei@rmu.edu 412-397-5285 Massey Hall 312
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Educational Background

• Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University, 2017

Professional Background

• Assistant Professor, Robert Morris University Fall 2021.
• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Central Oklahoma Fall 2017-Summer 2021
• Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve University 2012-2017
• Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University Fall 2014-Spring 2015
• Part-Time Management Consultant 2007-2011
• Lecturer, Beijing Normal University (Night school) 2008-2009

Area of Expertise/Research

• Dr. Wei is passionate about studying how to improve employee well-being and create a better workplace through the lens of emotions and leadership. In particular, her research interests focus on leadership, emotions, compassion, workplace relationships, and ethical behavior. She has presented at major conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association. Her research has appeared in journal outlets such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Education, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Management and Organization Review, etc.
• As a compassionate executive and career coach, Dr. Wei specializes in guiding clients to become aware of and unlock their full potential by fostering a supportive and empathetic coaching environment. She is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She obtained the Weatherhead Executive Coaching Certificate and the Emotional Intelligent Leader Certificate from Case Western Reserve University in 2012. Dr. Wei is also certified in instruments such as Emotional & Social Competency Inventory (ESCI) and DiSC.
• Dr. Wei specializes in executive education on topics such as recruitment and retention, team development, motivation, and emotional intelligence. She has provided executive training to corporations across various industries in the U.S. and China.

Publications

• Bao, L., Wei, H., & Coen, C. A. 2024. Balancing efficiency and diversity of team complex problem-solving: The role of team structural configurations. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

  Wei, H., Wu, B., Park, H., & Bilimoria, D. 2023. A power-with versus power-over framework of leadership behaviors, employee expectations, and employee creativity: A meta-analysis. Journal of General Management, 03063070231167221.

• Wei, H., Wu, B., Park, H., & Deng, C. 2023. Is exercise good for all? Time-and strain-based work–family conflict and its impacts. The Journal of Social Psychology, 143(2), 230-247.

  Wu, B., Schuh, S. C., Wei, H., Cai, Y. 2023. When Positives and Negatives Collide: Evidence for a Systematic Model of Employees’ Strategies for Coping with Ambivalence. Journal of Business Psychology, 38(2), 473-491.

• Yao, L., Chen, X. P. & Wei, H. 2023. How do authoritarian and benevolent leadership affect employee work–family conflict? An emotional regulation perspective. Asia Pacific Journal Management, 40(4), 1525-1553.  

  Liu, S., Wei, H., Xin, H., & Cheng, P. 2022. Task conflict and team creativity: The role of team mindfulness, experiencing tensions, and information elaboration. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 39(4), 1367-1398. *Equal contribution between the first two authors.

• Zhu, J., Wei, H., Li, H., & Osburn, H. 2021. The paradoxical effect of responsible leadership on employee cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 32(4), 597-624.  *Equal contribution among the first three authors.

• Passarelli, A., Boyatzis, R. E., & Wei, H.  2018. Assessing leader development: Lessons from a historical review of MBA outcomes. Journal of Management Education, 42, 55-79.

• Wei, H., Zhu, J., Li, H., & Bilimoria, D. 2018. A cross-level study on family involvement and job satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1547.

   

•    Wei, H., Bilimoria, D., & Li, S. 2017. How does culture matter? The xin(heart-mind)-based social competence of Chinese executives. Management and Organization Review, 13, 307-344.

• Wei, H., Zhu, Y., & Li, S. 2016. Top executive leaders’ compassionate actions: An integrative framework of compassion incorporating a Confucian perspective. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33, 767-787.

   

   

  Liu, S., Liao, J. & Wei, H. 2015. Authentic leadership and whistleblowing: Mediating roles of psychological safety and personal identification. Journal of Business Ethics, 131, 107-119. 

• Liu, S., Liao, J., Liao, S. & Wei, H. 2014. The influence of prohibitive voice on proactive personality traits of extraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. Social Behavior and Personality, 42, 1099-1104.

   

  Wei, H. & Li, S. 2011. Confucian nurturing doctrine of xin (heart-mind): Its enlightenment to organization research. Journal of Management Development, 30, 753-765.