Full-time doctoral student
Work & Organisational Psychology Group
Educational background
- 1996-2001 Providence University, Taiwan
- BA in Business Administration
- BSc in Food Nutrition and Science
- Teaching Certificate of intermediate education
- 2001-2002 University of Reading, UK
- MSc in International Management
- 2002 October Onward Aston University, UK
- PhD in Management, Work and Organizational Psychology Group
Research Interests
My Broad research interest is how culture influences perceptions of management practices across different cultural contexts.
Specific research interests
- Cross-cultural Psychology / Cross Cultural Management
- Indigenized Psychology and Chiense Psychology
- Chinese Family Business
- Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)
- Innovation / R&D in Different Cultural Contexts
Doctoral Research Project
My doctoral research project, which is supervised by Dr. Michale
Grojean, is aiming to identify and develop a Chinese Team Innovation
Model. The rationale is that since traditional Chinese Cultural Values
have certain impacts on how management practices being carried out in
the Chinese societies such as Taiwan; similarly, these cultural values
may affect or moderate the innovation processes. We know that people in
different cultural contexts feel and experience things differently
under the influence of culture. It is likely the way people carry out
innovation may be influenced by culture as well. The existing
literature of innovation can be categorized into two main perspectives
toward innovation namely Western and Japanese approach. Under the trend
of globalisation and internationalisation, organizations nowadays have
more choice in terms of disperse their innovation or R&D activities
across national borders. By looking at how innovations are done in
Chinese contexts, I hope to provide a theoretical overview on how
Chinese cultural traits affect innovation processes within Chinese
contexts.
Teaching
I am currently teaching Foundation of Management (BS1131) tutorials
and Foundation of Management 2: Business Game (BS2225) tutorials in
academic year 2005/2006.
Working Experiences
1998-2001, Taiwan
Working as private tutor teaching English and Biology in Taiwan (part-time).
2003 July Onward, UK
Working for Aston University Residence Service as a Postgraduate Rota Member (Part-time).
2005 January Onward, UK
Working as a tutor, I teach Foundation of Management2: Business Game tutorials (2 nd year undergraduate course, BS2225).
Conference Attandance
I attended and presented a poster in International Congress of
Psychology( ICP), August 2004. The title of my presentation is Are you
innovative enough?: Independent self, Interdependent self and Team
innovation.
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