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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Scopus8 WoS6 |
| 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. WoS5 |
| 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. 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, 72(1), 211-230. WoS50 |
| 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. 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. WoS17 |
| 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. Scopus21 WoS17 |
| 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. WoS24 |
| 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. WoS30 |
| 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. WoS65 |
| 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. Scopus16 WoS15 |
| 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. WoS14 |
| 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. Scopus10 WoS8 |
| 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. Scopus11 WoS7 |
| 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. Scopus21 WoS11 |
| 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. Scopus28 WoS24 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Kang, H., & Shen, J. (2017). International Human Resource Management in South Korean Multinational Enterprises. Springer Singapore. DOI |