From CEO humility to women career management: Studying pressing issues for a better society
Prof. Amy OU, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: 05 May 2023 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Venue: E22-G015
Host: Prof. Kraivin CHINTAKANANDA, Assistant Professor in Management
Online registration: https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jhK4BU7cEqpeUC
Abstract
In the presentation, Amy will share about the journey of exploring her two major research programs: CEO humility and women career management. The aims of the presentation are twofold. One is to engage colleagues and students to explore ways to identify research questions that are of personal and societal significance. The other is to share ideas and seek feedback of two working papers.
In the first paper, we focus on the pressing issue of preventing and correcting detrimental corporate social irresponsible behaviors (CSIR) such as financial misstatement, faulty products, employee discrimination, or environmental pollutions. Specifically, we examine whether and when humble CEOs can reduce the occurrence of CSIR and take corrective actions afterwards. We develop a new unobtrusive measure of CEO humility and test the idea with a sample of fortune 500 companies.
In the second paper, we focus on helping working mothers to regain energy and maintain effectiveness at work and at home. We explore how working mothers can use lunchbreaks for their effectiveness and well-being, and how companies and working mothers can best respond to the changes of work modes (office, home, or hybrid mode) after Covid. We collect experience sampling survey data before and after covid to study lunchbreak profiles and their impacts on working mothers.
Speaker
Dr. Amy Ou is an associate professor at the department of management and marketing in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received a PhD degree in management from W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. She serves as a senior editor at Management and Organization Review and is an incoming Associate Editor at Journal of Management. Her research area includes strategic leadership (particularly CEO humility), organizational culture, women leadership and career development, and cross-cultural management. Her papers have been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management. Her research has won the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Outstanding Dissertation Award and best paper awards at the Academy of Management conference, the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, and Journal of Management. Her research on CEO humility has been featured in Forbes China, USA Today, and The Business Times.
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