Technology and Media Team

The Technology and Media Team is responsible for coordinating all technical needs of the OB division. This includes administration of the OB website, creating podcasts, preparing slideshows for the meetings, and moderating the OB listserv.

Team Members

OB FORUM Moderator
Chao Ma
Research School of Management
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
chao.ma@anu.edu.au

 Chao Ma is a Ph.D. candidate with the Research School of Management, College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University (ANU). He graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with the First-Class Honours degree of Bachelor of Business Administration. Before the enrolment into Ph.D. program, he obtained a degree of Master of Business with Merit, and a degree of M.Phil. on Organisational Behaviour discipline at ANU. Chao Ma’s research focuses on organizational behaviour and human resource management, including leadership, voice, underemployment, etc. So far, Chao has published two research articles in the journal ranking list by Australia Business Dean Council (ABDC) and one in Financial Times ranked journals (FT50). Apart from journal publications, Chao has presented several papers in leading management conferences, including Academy of Management Annual Conference, International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Biannual Conference, and International Conference on Organization and Management. Chao has actively contributed to the wider academic communities by serving as reviewer of some academic conferences and journals including Academy of Management Annual Conference, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference, Human Resource Management, and Applied Psychology: An International Review.              

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Carys Chan
School Of Management
RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
carys.chan@rmit.edu.au

Xi Wen (Carys) Chan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Management, College of Business, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She received her PhD in Management from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Her research interests are in the work–life interface, specifically exploring the link between personal resources (e.g., self-efficacy) and various work-and non-work-related demands, resources, and outcomes. For her PhD thesis, she explored how supervisors’ emotions affected their subordinates’ work and non-work outcomes through a social cognitive lens. She is currently working on projects focused on patient mistreatment victimisation, the boundaryless work–life interface, and the employee outcomes of cross-border M&As. Her work has been published in International Journal of Human Resource Management and British Journal of Social Work, among other journals. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Vocational Behavior and International Journal of Stress Management. Alongside her academic endeavors, she has also interned with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Thomson Reuters, KPMG Advisory, VTB Capital, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore). She served as an executive committee member of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) from 2016 to 2018.

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David Newman
School of Management
University of Southern California, USA
David Newman is a Ph.D. student in Management and Organization at the University of Southern California. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Yale University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. His research interests include moral foundations theory, business ethics, meaning-making behaviors, personal and organizational identity, and the psychology of technology. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program, David worked for EthicalSystems.org, a non-profit collaboration of researchers dedicated to the advancement of a systems approach to better business practices.
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Kupiainen Olli
School of Business,
Aalto University, Finland
olli.kupiainen@aalto.fi

Olli a doctoral candidate from Aalto University, Finland. His research focus is on large-scale organizational changes; how organizational members experience changes and how perceptions of change unfolds over time. Currently, he is studying strategic change through Enterprise Social Media discussions. He got his first camera when he was five-years-old and he takes photos mostly of buildings, nature and landscapes.

     
                                       
                                              
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Michael D. Johnson Foster School of Business University
of Washington, Seattle, WA mdj3@uw.edu
Mike Johnson worked for sixteen years full-time in the non-profit world before going back to graduate school to get his PhD at Michigan State University in 2006. His research focuses on how to enhance collaborative work (especially in groups and teams), social identities, and emotions and moods in the workplace. He is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Management and Organization in the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He teaches the core Organizational Behavior classes for both the day-time and evening MBA programs, as well as various executive education courses and a PhD seminar. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.
Social Media Committee Chair
Xiaoshuang Lin
Southampton Business School
The University of Southampton, UK
Xiaoshuang.Lin@soton.ac.uk
Xiaoshuang Lin is a Lecturer (Assistant professor) in Southampton Business School, researching and teaching in Leadership, Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, and Organisational Behaviour. She received PhD in Management from The Australian National University. Her research of leadership in teams, team learning, employee voice, and employee cultural orientation have been published in academic journals, such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, and so on. She currently serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for Human Resource Management, Management and Organization Review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Personnel Review.
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Todd Weber
College of Business
Central Washington University
weber@cwu.edu
Todd Weber is an Associate Professor of Management/HR at Central Washington University. He received his Ph.d. in Organizational Behavior from UNC-Chapel Hill as well as a BS (Sociology) and Masters (Organizational Behavior) degree from Brigham Young University. He enjoys teaching, with a particular interest in the use of technology to help facilitate educational experiences. His research interests include leadership, values, motivation, and international management. He has published in a variety of academic publications including the Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Relations, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Management and Organization Review, and The International Journal of Human Resource Management, in addition to book chapters in Advances in International Management and Managing the New Workforce.