Work Experience

• 2026.2 - now, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
• 2025.1 - 2026.1，Associate Professor, School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University
• 2020.5 - 2024.12，Assistant Professor, School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University

Teaching

• People Analytics (Bachelor Program)
• Human Resource Management (Bachelor Program)
• Organizational Behavior (Bachelor Program)
• Positive Psychology (Bachelor Program)
• Econometrics (Bachelor Program)
• Managerial Psychology (Bachelor Program, MBA Program)
• Organizational Behavior (MBA Program)
• Judgment and Decision Making Under Uncertainty (MBA Program)
• Business Experimentation and Managerial Decision-making (MBA Program)
• Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Master & Doctoral Programs)

Research Project

• Principal Investigator, Research on the Formation and consequences of employee time theft: A motivational perspective. National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024-2026
• Principal Investigator, Research on the Establishment and violation of employee trust: The impact of events on trust and its cognitive neuroscience. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence for Information Behavior, 2023-2025

Papers

• Moon, Y.*, O’Brien, K. E., & Hu, B.* (in press). Is job embeddedness a resource revisiting the relationship of job embeddedness and employee well-being: A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Organizational Behavior. (*Corresponding author)
• Li, D., Meng, L.*, & Hu, B.* (2025). Purity in mire: Examining the impact of family motivation on employee time theft from an impression management perspective. Journal of Business and Psychology.(*Corresponding author)
• Hu, B., Han, S., Harold, C. M., D’Innocenzo, L., & Lee, S. (2025). When differentiated empowering leadership hurts team performance: The roles of information sharing and tenure diversity. Human Relations, 78(11), 1414-1441.
• Hu, B., Lu, D., Meng, L., & Zhang, Y. (2025). When time theft promotes performance: Measure development and validation of time theft motives. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(2), 256-281.
• Varma, A., Hu, B.*, Wang, Budhwar, P., & Pereira. (2024). The new HCN-expatriate context: A multi-source, multi-method investigation of American HCN support for BRICS expatriates. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 35(17), 2965-2999. (*Corresponding author)
• Hu, B., & Meng, L. (2024). Formation and consequences of employee time theft: A motivational perspective. Advances in Psychological Science, 32(3), 433-450.
• Meng, L., Lu, D., & Hu, B.* (2023). Pleasure seeking or efficiency promotion? The motivational model of time theft behavior. Human Resources Development of China, 40(3), 81-101. (* corresponding author)
• Cho, I., Hu, B., & Berry, C. M. (2023). A matter of when, not whether: A meta-analysis of modesty bias in East Asian self-ratings of job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 108(2), 291-306.
• Hu, B., Harold, C., & Kim, D. (2023). Stealing time on the company’s dime: Examining the indirect effect of laissez-faire leadership on employee time theft. Journal of Business Ethics, 183, 475-493.
• Meng, L., Lu, D., & Hu, B.* (2023). Pleasure seeking or efficiency promotion? The motivational model of time theft behavior. Human Resources Development of China, 40(3), 81-101. (* corresponding author) (in Chinese)
• Harold, C. M., Hu, B., & Koopman, J. (2022). Employee time theft: Conceptualization, measure development, and validation. Personnel Psychology, 75(2), 347-382. (Top Downloaded Article by Wiley; Personnel Psychology 2024 Best Article Award Finalist)
• Hu, B., & Meng, L. (2022). Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 37(8), 697-715.
• Hu, B., & Han, S. (2021). Distributive justice: Investigating the impact of resource focus and resource valence. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36(2), 225-252.
• Kim, J., Holtz, B. C., & Hu, B.* (2020). Rising above: Investigating employee exemplification as a constructive response to the experience of shame induced by abusive supervision. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 93(4), 861-886. (* corresponding author)
• Holtz, B. C., De-Cremer, D., Hu, B., Kim, J., & Giacalone, R. (2020). How certain can we really be that our boss is trustworthy, and does it matter? A metacognitive perspective on employee evaluations of supervisor trustworthiness. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 41(7), 587-605.
• Holtz, B., & Hu, B. (2017). Passive leadership: Relationships with trust and justice perceptions. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 32(1), 119-130.

Books & Chapters

• Meng, L., & Hu, B. (2024). Ten Lectures on Organizational Behavior. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.
• Varma, A., & Hu, B. (2024). Employee relations in China. In M. Warner, J. Nolan, S. Zhao, & K. Kamoche (Eds.), Handbook of Chinese Business and Management, London: Routledge.
• Hu, B., & Meng, L. (2024). Motibation and performance management. In A. Varma, P. Budhwar, & A. S. DeNisi (Eds.), Performance Management Systems: A Global Perspective, London: Routledge.
• Hu, B., & Varma. A. (2019). Motivation and feedback. In A. Varma & P. Budhwar. (Eds.), Performance Management: An Experiential Approach, London: Sage.
• Varma, A., Hu, B., & Bloomquist, L. (2016). Crony capitalism and family oligarchies in India. In N. Khatri, & A. Ojha (Eds.), Indian Brand of Crony Capitalism (pp. 159-176), Indian Academy of Management Series: Palgrave Macmillan.

Professional Service

• Editorial Board, Journal of Vocational Behavior
• Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Applied Psychology
• Ad hoc reviewer, Personnel Psychology
• Ad hoc reviewer, Human Relations
• Ad hoc reviewer, Human Resource Management
• Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics
• Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
• Ad hoc reviewer, Management and Organization Review
• Ad hoc reviewer, Acta Psychologica Sinica
• Reviewer, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Reviewer, Academy of Management
• Reviewer, International Association for Chinese Management Research

Honors

• 2025, Shanghai International Studies University Education Award
• 2024, Paper titled "Employee time theft: Conceptualization, measure development, and validation" received the Personnel Psychology Top 3 Best Paper Award
• 2023, Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program
• 2022, Paper titled "Employee time theft: Conceptualization, measure development, and validation" received the Wiley Top Downloaded Paper Award
• 2022, Shanghai International Studies University Excellent Teaching Team Award (Third Prize)
• 2021, Outstanding Class Advisor, School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University
• 2020, Research Grant for Young Scholar, Shanghai International Studies University