The conference paper co-authored by our 3 PhD students, Fangjian WU, Stephanie Wanxuan WANG, and Gabby Ka Pik CHOI, has been nominated as the Finalist of Arnon Reichers Best Student Paper Award by the Careers Division at 2025 Academy of Management Annual Conference.

The paper, entitled “Fostering newcomers’ career adaptability: The role of team inclusive leadership and person-team fit”, proposes how inclusive leadership can help newly joined employees achieve both social adjustment and innovation, which then contribute to the organization and finally develop newcomers’ career adaptability. It is a novel idea in career research. Moreover, it is the only conceptual piece among the 3 Finalist papers. This nomination highlights the achievement of our PhD students as well as the recognition of our PhD programme.

Professor Raymond Loi is the supervisor of the 3 PhD students.