Rui Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Email Address
rui.zhong@psu.edu
Rui Zhong
Assistant Professor
Department Management and Organization
Office Address 438 Business Building
Email Address
rui.zhong@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 studies the so-called “dark side” of workplace life: gossip, deviance, mistreatment, and psychological challenges such as homesickness and death awareness. Adopting a paradoxical lens, Dr. Zhong's research examines not only how these phenomena can be harmful and how employees can cope with them but also how they may generate constructive outcomes, revealing an often-overlooked “bright side.” Dr. Zhong's work seeks to equip employees and managers with insights to more effectively navigate these less desirable yet inevitable parts of organizational life and, where possible, leverage them as opportunities for growth and resilience.
Dr. Zhong uses a variety of methods, such as experience samplings, meta-analyses, experiments, and narrative reviews. His research has been published in a number of top-tier management journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management.
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.