Rui Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Email Address
rpz5218@psu.edu
Rui Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Email Address
rpz5218@psu.edu
Dr. Rui Zhong is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Smeal College of Business. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of British Columbia.
Expertise
Dr. Rui Zhong is a positive scholar on negative phenomena. He studies a variety of negative phenomena, or phenomena that people generally have a negative connotation with. Specifically, he studies negative behaviors (e.g., gossip, abusive supervision, and ostracism), emotions (e.g., shame and anxiety), and cognitions (e.g., death awareness). Dr. Zhong's research sheds a positive light on those negative phenomena, with a particular focus on 1) benefits of negative phenomena and 2) mitigators that reduce the harm of negative phenomena.
Education
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, University of British Columbia, 2023
BMgt, Construction Management, Tianjin University, 2017
Courses Taught
MGMT 326 – Org Beh and Design (3)
Concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior and Design (3) This introductory course covers the concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. Issues and challenges of managing at different organizational levels (individual, group, project, and total organization) are discussed and illustrated with real-world examples. Students learn about the latest means of designing high-performing organizations, including how to change an organization. This course will serve as a foundation for taking advanced management courses. The primary method of evaluation is an examination after each of the four major parts of the course, but class participation and short papers may also be used for evaluation.