Senior Lecturer (Xiao) Lin Xiao Chu, formerly known as Xiaoshuang Lin, is a member of the Centre for Workplace Excellence (CWeX). She also serves as the Program Coordinator for Human Resource Management and is the host of CWeX’s Food for Thought Seminars. Xiao obtained her PhD in Management from The Australian National University.
Xiao’s research focuses on how leadership behaviours such as servant leadership, leader humility and leader support influence employee voice, wellbeing and performance. She examines the psychological mechanisms that link leadership to proactive employee behaviour across changing work contexts, including hybrid workplaces and the aged care sector. A growing area of her research also explores how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence affect leadership and employee outcomes.
A quantitative researcher, she is proficient in using Mplus and SPSS and conducts research in Australia, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Leadership Quarterly. Additionally, she has contributed to practitioner-oriented outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Xiao has received the research grant from the British Academy and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Applied Psychology: An International Review.
Before joining UniSA, Xiao was a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Southampton, England. She later moved to Aston University, where she taught full-time employees in the West Midlands. A dedicated educator, Xiao specialises in leadership, business ethics, and change management. At UniSA, she teaches postgraduate courses (BUSS 5065 Leading and Managing Organisational Change) and undergraduate courses (BUSS 3050 Organisational Leadership).