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  1. Being flexible, but am I ready for work? Effect of flexibility i‐deals on workplace outcomes through psychological reattachment

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, September 2025, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  2. Corrigendum to “Humble leader, successful follower: Linking leader humility with follower career outcomes via leader competence from an implicit leadership theory perspective” [Journal of Vocational Behavior, 155, 104060]

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, August 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  3. Free yourself from professionalism trap: A self-control explanation of the negative effect of involuntary professionalism

    Article • Journal of Business Research, April 2025, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  4. Model minority under Bamboo Ceiling: On the association between leadership development opportunities and task performance and helping behavior of Asian employees

    Article • Australian Journal of Management, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  5. AI Empowerment of Asian-Australian Migrant Workers: Progress, Potentials, and Patterns

    Article • Australasian Journal of Information Systems, February 2025, Australian Computer Society

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  6. Hey boss, I’m overqualified! Exploring how overqualified employees engage in followership behaviors through coping strategies.

    Article • International Journal of Stress Management, December 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  7. Humble leader, successful follower: Linking leader humility with follower career outcomes via leader competence from an implicit leadership theory perspective

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, December 2024, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  8. How Machine Learning Improves Knowledge Sharing Platforms in the Modern Small Businesses

    Article • Personnel Review, November 2024, Emerald

    Yingnan Shi, Associate Professor Chao Ma

  9. “Who am I?” Exploring Temporary workers' Integration in Multi‐Employment‐Type Organizations From the Identity Threat Perspective

    Article • Human Resource Management, November 2024, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  10. When Humble is Humbled: The Moderating Role of Leader Underestimation in the Dual Relationship Between Employee Humility and Well-Being

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  11. Culturally-shaped Mindsets of Authoritarian Leadership: Power Motivation and Effectiveness Belief Promoted by Power Distance

    Article • May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  12. Perceived overqualification under multi-cultural context: ethnic consideration, review, and research agenda

    Article • Current Psychology, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  13. The Myth and Reality of Employee Wellbeing in China

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  14. Culturally-Shaped Mindsets of Authoritarian Leadership: Power Motivation and Effectiveness Belief Promoted by Power Distance

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  15. Speaking for organization or self? Investigating the effects of perceived overqualification on pro-organizational and self-interested voice

    Article • Journal of Business Research, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Xi Wen Chan, Associate Professor Chao Ma

  16. Too smart to work hard? Investigating why overqualified employees engage in time theft behaviors

    Article • Human Resource Management, June 2023, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  17. To stand out or fit in? How perceived overqualification motivates proactive and affiliative performance

    Article • Human Resource Management, May 2023, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  18. The Patterns of Employee Voice in China

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  19. Discipline vs. dominance: The relationships between different types of authoritarian leadership and employee self-interested voice

    Article • Current Psychology, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  20. Full of energy – The relationship between supervisor developmental feedback and task performance: a conservation of resources perspective

    Article • Personnel Review, July 2022, Emerald

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  21. The Scope and Nature of Employee Engagement in China

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Xi Wen Chan, Associate Professor Chao Ma

  22. Give full play to the talent: exploring when perceived overqualification leads to more altruistic helping behavior through extra effort

    Article • Personnel Review, July 2021, Emerald

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  23. Does perceived overqualification cultivate angels or demons? Examining its interpersonal outcomes through pride from an evolutionary psychology perspective

    Article • Applied Psychology, May 2021, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  24. “Too much of a good thing?”: exploring the dark side of empowering leadership by linking it with unethical pro-organizational behavior

    Article • Leadership & Organization Development Journal, October 2020, Emerald

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  25. Linking perceived overqualification with task performance and proactivity? An examination from self-concept-based perspective

    Article • Journal of Business Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  26. Effects of perceived overqualification on career distress and career planning: Mediating role of career identity and moderating role of leader humility

    Article • Human Resource Management, March 2020, Wiley

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  27. Why and when leader humility promotes constructive voice: a crossover of energy perspective

    Article • Personnel Review, December 2019, Emerald

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  28. Why and When Employees Like to Speak up More Under Humble Leaders? The Roles of Personal Sense of Power and Power Distance

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  29. Motivation and Voice

    Article • International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, July 2016, Emerald

    Associate Professor Chao Ma

  30. The Effect of Empowerment on Performance: An Empirical Study in China’s Banking Industry

    Article • International Review of Business Research Papers, September 2015, Zant World Press

    Associate Professor Chao Ma