Haiying Kang

Haiying Kang

Adelaide Business School

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Dr Haiying Kang is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at the University of Adelaide. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and a Master of Commerce (Performance Management) from the University of Adelaide, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Human Resource Management) from the University of South Australia. Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, she was the Senior Lecturer in HRM at RMIT University where she worked in roles of HDR Coordinator of School of Management, and Co-Theme Leader (Multicultural Inclusion) at the Centre of Organisations and Social Change. 
 
Haiying’s main research interests are HRM and International HRM. More specifically, her research focuses on interactions within workgroups and teams, mentoring, career management, employee health and wellbeing, work design in global context, cross cultural management, and expatriate management. She has published in leading HRM and IB journals, such as Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Applied Psychology, International Business Review, and Management International Review, among others. Her work has also been featured in media such as The Conversations, and Psychology Today. She has received several grants from Australian government and philanthropic organisations.
 
Haiying is currently the Chair of Early Career Review Board for Personnel Review. She also serves as a Lead Editor for journal special issues such as Personnel Review. She has served as an Associate Editor at Journal of Management and Organization.
 

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2020 - 2025 Senior Lecturer RMIT University
    2016 - 2019 Lecturer RMIT University

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Kang, H., Wang, Y., Wu, C. -H., & Jin, Q. (2025). Taking Stock and Construct Cleanup: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Host Country Nationals’ Supportive Behaviors Toward Expatriates. Management International Review, 40 pages.
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    2025 Meacham, H., Holland, P., Pariona-Cabrera, P., Kang, H., Tham, T. L., Bartram, T., & Cavanagh, J. (2025). The role of family support on the effects of paramedic role overload on resilience, intention to leave and promotive voice. Personnel Review, 54(1), 236-255.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS2
    2024 Kang, H., Wang, Y., Wu, C. -H., & Shaffer, M. A. (2024). When and why host country nationals give advice to expatriates: A relational work context perspective. International Business Review, 33(6), 102338.
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    2024 Kang, H., Wang, Y., & Cao, Y. (2024). Host Country Nationals' Role Overload and Perspective Taking as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Role of Host Country nationals' Agreeableness. Journal of International Management, 30(4), 101153.
    DOI WoS2
    2023 Zhang, R., Kang, H., Jiang, Z., & Niu, X. (2023). How does workplace ostracism hurt employee creativity? Thriving at work as a mediator and organization-based self-esteem as a moderator. APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW-PSYCHOLOGIE APPLIQUEE-REVUE INTERNATIONALE, 72(1), 211-230.
    DOI WoS45
    2023 Shu, S., Wang, Y., Kang, H., Wu, C. -H., & Arenius, P. (2023). Understanding the role of job quality in the association of employees’ career change to self-employment and job satisfaction. Personnel Review, 52(1), 288-303.
    DOI Scopus5
    2021 Shen, J., Wajeeh-ul-Husnain, S., Kang, H., & Jin, Q. (2021). Effect of outgroup social categorization by host-country nationals on expatriate premature return intention and buffering effect of mentoring. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, 27(2), 12 pages.
    DOI WoS16
    2021 Chen, J., Kang, H., Wang, Y., & Zhou, M. (2021). Thwarted psychological needs: the negative impact of customer mistreatment on service employees and the moderating role of empowerment HRM practices. Personnel Review, 50(7/8), 1566-1581.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS15
    2019 Guo, Y., Kang, H., Shao, B., & Halvorsen, B. (2019). Organizational politics as a blindfold: Employee work engagement is negatively related to supervisor-rated work outcomes when organizational politics is high. PERSONNEL REVIEW, 48(3), 784-798.
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    2018 Shen, J., Kang, H., & Dowling, P. J. (2018). Conditional altruism: Effects of HRM practices on the willingness of host-country nationals to help expatriates. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 57(1), 355-364.
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    2018 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2018). Antecedents and consequences of host-country nationals' attitudes and behaviors toward expatriates: What we do and do not know. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 28(2), 164-175.
    DOI WoS63
    2017 Kang, H., Shen, J., & Benson, J. (2017). Not all expatriates are the same: non-traditional South Korean expatriates in China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(13), 1842-1865.
    DOI Scopus15 WoS16
    2016 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2016). International performance appraisal practices and approaches of South Korean MNEs in China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 27(3), 291-310.
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    2015 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2015). Transfer or localize? International reward and compensation practices of South Korean multinational enterprises in China. ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS REVIEW, 21(2), 211-227.
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    2015 Kang, H., Shen, J., & Xu, G. (2015). International Training and Management Development Policies and Practices of South Korean MNEs in China. THUNDERBIRD INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW, 57(3), 229-240.
    DOI WoS8
    2014 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2014). International human resource management policies and practices of South Korean MNEs: a review of the literature. ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS REVIEW, 20(1), 42-58.
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    2013 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2013). International recruitment and selection practices of South Korean multinationals in China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 24(17), 3325-3342.
    DOI WoS22
    - Holland, P., Meacham, H., Kougiannou, N., Pariona‐Cabrera, P., Kang, H., & Tham, T. L. (2025). The Influence of Workload, Employee Silence and Trust in Management on Work Outcomes Among Australian Allied Health Workers During COVID‐19. Human Resource Management Journal.
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  • Books
    Year Citation
    2017 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2017). International Human Resource Management in South Korean Multinational Enterprises. Springer Singapore.
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