Haiying Kang

Dr Haiying Kang

Associate Professor

School of Management

College of Business and Law


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 an Associate editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review, and Chair of the Early Career Review Board for Personnel Review. She also serves as a Lead Editor for journal special issues such as Personnel Review. She has previously served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management and Organization. 
 

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

Year Citation
2026 Holland, P., Meacham, H., Kougiannou, N., Pariona‐Cabrera, P., Kang, H., & Tham, T. L. (2026). 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, 36(1), 128-142.
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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, 65(6), 1065-1104.
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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.
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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.
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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, 72(1), 211-230.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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., & 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.
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2014 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2014). 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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2014 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2014). International human resource management policies and practices of South Korean MNEs: a review of 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.
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Year Citation
2017 Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2017). International Human Resource Management in South Korean Multinational Enterprises. Springer Singapore.
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