2023  Ph.D. in Management  Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2018  M.A. in Management  School of Business, Sun Yat-Sen University

2016  B.A. in Management  School of Management, Shandong University

2023.08-present   Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (* denotes corresponding author)

1. Zhang, X., Yu, K., Li, W. D., & Zacher, H. Sustainability of passion for work? Change-related reciprocal relationships between passion and job crafting. Journal of Management.

2. Li, W. D.*, Wang, J.*, Allen, T., Zhang, X.*, Yu, K., Zhang, H., Huang, J., Liu, M., & Li, A. (2023). Getting under the skin? Influences of work-family experiences on personality trait adaptation and reciprocal relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

3. Song, Z., Li, W. D., Jin, X., Ying, J., Zhang, X., Song, Y., Li, H., & Fan, Q. (2022). Genetics, leadership position, and well-being: An investigation with a large-scale GWAS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(12), e2114271119.

4. Tjosvold, D.*, Zhang, X.*, Li, W. D., Wong, A. S. H., & Yu, K. (2022). Open-minded discussion in organizations: A meta-analytic evaluation of cooperation and competition theory. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37, 897–921

5. Song, Z., Li, W. D., Li, H., Zhang, X., Wang, N., & Fan, Q. (2022). Genetic basis of job attainment characteristics and the genetic sharing with other SES indices and well-being. Scientific Report. 12, 8902.

6. Sun, J., Li, W. D., Li, Y., Liden, R. C., Li, S., & Zhang, X. (2021). Unintended consequences of being proactive? Linking proactive personality to coworker envy, helping, and undermining, and the moderating role of prosocial motivation. Journal of Applied Psychology. 106(2), 250-267.

7. Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Lu, H., Yang, Y. (2022). The effects of mindfulness-based training intervention on employees' ego depletion and work engagement: A field experiment based on ESM. Management Review (管理评论), 34(7), 296-308.

8. Lu, H., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Tan, L. (2021). Does distrust motivate or discourage employees? The double-edged sword of feeling ability-distrusted by supervisors. Acta Psychologica Sinica (心理学报), 53(12), 1376-1392.

9. Chen, C., Zhang, X., Sun, L., Qin, X., & Deng, H. (2020). Trust is valued in proportion to its rarity? Investigating how and when feeling trusted leads to counterproductive work behavior. Acta Psychologica Sinica (心理学报), 52(3), 329-344.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Li, W. D., Zhang, X., Song, Z., & Wang, Y. (2019). Behavioral genetics and affect at work: A review and directions for future research. In L.-Q. Yang, R. Cropanzano, C. Daus, & V. Martinez-Tur (Eds.). Cambridge handbook of workplace affect. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

1. Zhang, X., Li, W. D., Yu, K., Ashford, S., Zacher, H. (April 2022). Sustainability of passion for work? Change-related reciprocal relationships between passion and job crafting. Paper presented at the Korea-Hong Kong International Management Conference 2022, Virtual conference.

2. Li, W. D., Wang, J., Zhang H., Zhang, X., & Yu, K. (August 2022). Getting Under the Skin? Work-Family Interface’s Effects on Personality Change & Reciprocal Relations. Paper accepted to be presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle, The U.S.

3. Song, Z., Li, W. D., Li, H., Zhang, X., Wang, N., Fan, Q. (August 2022). Job attainment characteristics: Genetic basis shared with other SES indices. Paper accepted to be presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle, The U.S.

4. Zhang, X., Fulmer, A., Song, Q., & Chen, Y. (August 2020). Feeling trusted by the supervisor and its consequences. Paper accepted to be presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Vancouver, Canada.

5. Zhang, X., Li, W. D., Zacher, H., & Zhang, H. (April 2020). Can your passion last? The role of job crafting and their reciprocal relationships. Paper accepted to be presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Austin, The U.S.

6. Tjosvold, D., Zhang, X., Li, W. D., & Wong, A. S. (August 2019). Open-minded discussion in organizations: A meta-analytic evaluation of cooperation and competition theory. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, The U.S.