Mo Wang

Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair
Distinguished Professor
Director, Human Resource Research Center
Chair, Management Department
Associate Dean, Warrington College of Business

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University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Management Department
Stuzin Hall 231

Bio

Dr. Mo Wang is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, Department Chair of the Management Department, and the Director of Human Resource Research Center at University of Florida.

To date, Mo has published more than 185 peer-reviewed journal articles, 30 book chapters, and 5 books. He is known for his research on retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies. He received numerous awards for his research in these areas, including Academy of Management HR Division Scholarly Achievement Award (2008), Careers Division Best Paper Award (2009), European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (2009), Emerald Group’s Outstanding Author Contribution Awards (2013 and 2014), Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award (2016), and Journal of Management Scholarly Impact Award (2017). He also received Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award from Academy of Management’s OB Division (2017), Early Career Contribution/Achievement Awards from American Psychological Association (2013), Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2013), Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (2012), Academy of Management’s HR Division (2011) and Research Methods Division (2011), and Society for Occupational Health Psychology (2009).

Mo’s research is well recognized and regarded by major federal funding agencies. His research program has been supported with more than $5M from NIH, NSF, CDC, and various other research foundations and agencies. As a true scientist-practitioner, Mo is also committed to providing students, workers, employers, and policy makers with evidence-based knowledge. His work has been reported extensively by the popular media, such as NPR, BBC, Associated Press, WSJ, NYTimes, HBR, and the Washington Post. In 2015, he conducted a Congressional Debriefing on retirement for U.S. Congress. He also served as an invited speaker for White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team twice, giving talks on retirement (2015) and older worker job search (2016).

Mo is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E) and a Fellow of AOM, APA, APS, and SIOP. He was the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Retirement and an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology (2010-2020) and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Work, Aging and Retirement. He was the President of Society for Occupational Health Psychology (2014-2015) and the Director for the Science of Organizations Program at National Science Foundation (2014-2016). He currently serves the Presidential Track for Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (2021-2024).

Education All years

PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2005
MA, Bowling Green State University, 2003
BS, Peking University, 2001

News All articles

UF business students lead research projects as 2024-2025 University Scholars — July 29, 2024 — Growing up with social media, Asher Lowe (BABA ’25) has seen the rise of influencers across social media platforms. With the influencer ma...
Retirement Gets Harder the Longer You Wait — July 25, 2024 — For men like Joe Biden—highly educated, employed past 65, strongly tied to work—stepping away can pose its own risks to health and happi...
How do you know it’s time to retire? — July 11, 2024 — Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo Wang. There are a multitude of reasons wh...
These Couples Survived a Lot. Then Came Retirement. — May 6, 2024 — Research from Mo Wang, Associate Dean, Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar and retirement expert, informs this story about life after work...
Aflac’s CEO gave us that obnoxious, genius duck and changed the insurance industry. Now, he’s facing his aging customers’ mortality—and eventually his own — March 26, 2024 — Associate Dean and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo Wang shares his insights on how companies with aging CEOs are impacted, like Afla...

Courses taught Last 3 years

Sem Rsrch Cncpts Meth (MAN7108)
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PhD students advised Last 3 years

Daniel Dong-Wook Kim — 2023 — 2024
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Jake Philip Gale — 2021 — 2023
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Michelle L Lopez — 2021 — 2022
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Remy E Jennings — 2021 — 2022
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Yiduo Shao — 2020 — 2022
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Jesse Vullinghs — Unknown — 2021
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Remy Jennings — 2020 — 2021
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Thomas J Bussen — 2019 — 2021
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William Poellmitz — 2018 — 2021
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Professional service Last 5 years

Board of Advisors, APA Publications and Communications — 2021 to 2027
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Board of Advisors, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences — 2023 to 2025
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Committee Chair, Committee on Research and Application in Team Science — 2024 to 2025
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Chairperson, Psychological Methods Editor Search Committee — 2023 to 2024
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Editor, PNAS Nexus — 2022 to 2024
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Editor, Work, Aging and Retirement — 2014 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Academy of Management Discoveries — 2020 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, German Journal of Human Resource Management — 2017 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology — 2010 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Business and Psychology — 2008 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of International Business Studies — 2022 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Management — 2008 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology — 2010 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Organizational Research Methods — 2017 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Personnel Psychology — 2010 to 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Psychology and Aging — 2024
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Editorial Review Board Member, Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being — 2012 to 2024
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President, The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology — 2021 to 2024
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Chairperson, APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS-REC) Working Group — 2022 to 2023
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Chairperson, Psychology and Aging Editor Search Committee — 2022 to 2023
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Committee Chair, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - The National Academies Press — 2023
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Committee Member, Committee on Study and Recommendations on the HIMS, FADAP, and any other Drug and Alcohol Programs within the DOT — 2022 to 2023
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Committee Member, Committee on Study and Recommendations on the HIMS, FADAP, and any other Drug and Alcohol Programs within the DOT — 2022 to 2023
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Editor, Journal of Management — 2019 to 2022
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Officer, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. — 2018 to 2021
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Other, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020, University Grants Committee — 2020 to 2021
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Book chapter publications Last 5 years

I-O Psychology from a Global Perspective
Status: Accepted

Accepted Year: 2023

Author: Mo Wang
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Longitudinal and diary methods to study age and work
Status: Published

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, M Fang
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Leveraging aging workforce and age diversity to achieve organizational goals: A human resource management perspective
Status: Published

Published Year: 2020

Author: Mo Wang
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Retirement
Status: Accepted

Accepted Year: 2020

Author: Mo Wang
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Bridge employment
Status: Accepted

Accepted Year: 2019

Authors: V Alterman, S Huang, Mo Wang
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Introduction to data collection in multilevel research
Status: Published

Published Year: 2019

Author: Mo Wang
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Lifespan perspectives on the work-to-retirement transition
Status: Published

Published Year: 2019

Authors: Y Zhan, Mo Wang, V Daniel
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Mandatory retirement
Status: Accepted

Published Year: 2019

Authors: Mo Wang, L Dulberg, A Qureshi
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The importance of interests for understanding retirement
Status: Accepted

Published Year: 2019

Author: Mo Wang
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Conference proceeding publications Last 5 years

Identification of Social and Racial Disparities in Risk of HIV Infection in Florida using Causal AI Methods
Status: Published

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, Mattia Prosperi, J Xu, J Guo, Jiang Bian, W Chen, Shantrel Canidate, Simone Marini
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Multivariate independence set search via progressive addition for conditional Markov acyclic networks
Status: Published

Published Year: 2020

Authors: Mattia Prosperi, Jiang Bian, Mo Wang
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Journal article publications Last 5 years

A configurational approach to investigating the relationship between organizational culture and organizational effectiveness using fuzzy-set analysis.
Status: Accepted

Journal: Group and Organization Management

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: M Puppatz, Mo Wang, J Deller
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Are fairness-aware machine learning algorithms really fair? Predictive bias of using machine learning in personnel selection
Status: Accepted

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: N Zhang, Mo Wang, H Xu
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Behavior change versus stability during the college-to-work transition: Life course and the “stickiness” of alcohol misuse at career entry
Status: Accepted

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: S Liu, P Bamberger, Mo Wang, I Nahum-Shani, M Larimer, S Bacharach
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Birds of a feather flock together: How congruence between worker and occupational personality relates to job satisfaction over time.
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Vocational Behavior

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: A Ghetta, A Hirschi, Mo Wang, J Rossier, A Herrmann
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Commentaries on “Scale use and abuse: Toward best practices in the deployment of scales
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Consumer Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: C Katsikeas, S Madan, C Brendl, B Calder, D Lehmann, H Baumgartner, B Weijters, Mo Wang, C Huang, J Huber
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Crossover effects of parent work-to-family experiences on child work centrality: A moderated mediation model
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: R Steiner, A Hirschi, Mo Wang
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Employee green behaviour: A review and recommendations for future research
Status: Accepted

Journal: International Journal of Management Reviews

Published Year: 2023

Authors: G Tang, S Ren, Mo Wang, Y Li, S Zhang
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Evidence based assessment in special education research: Advancing the use of evidence in methods, tools, and empirical processes
Status: Accepted

Journal: Exceptional Children

Published Year: 2023

Authors: E Talbott, A De Los Reyes, D Kearns, J Mancilla-Martinez, Mo Wang
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Integrating multi-informant reports of youth mental health: A construct validation test of Kramer and Colleagues’ (2003) satellite model.
Status: Accepted

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: N Charamut, S Racz, Mo Wang, A De Los Reyes
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Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Vocational Behavior

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: D Spurk, A Hirschi, Mo Wang, D Valero, S Kauffeld
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Later life workplace index: Validation of an English version
Status: Published

Journal: Work, Aging, and Retirement

Published Year: 2023

Authors: J Finsel, A Wohrmann, Mo Wang, M Wilckens, J Deller
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Managing the risks and side effects of workplace friendship: The moderating role of workplace friendship self-efficacy
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Vocational Behavior

Published Year: 2023

Authors: Mo Wang, U Fasbender, A Burmeister
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Newcomer drinking behavior and immediate post-college earnings growth: Does Occupational Social Intensity Make a Difference?
Status: Accepted

Journal: Occupational Health Science

Published Year: 2023

Authors: R Montal-Rosenberg, P Bamberger, Mo Wang, M Larime, S Bacharach
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Performance goal orientation and unethical pro-organizational behavior: A moderated mediation model
Status: Accepted

Journal: International Journal of Human Resources Management

Published Year: 2023

Authors: S Mo, Y Song, Y Fang, Mo Wang, J Shi, J Jin, X Zhao
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Providing digital technology training as a way to retain older workers: The importance of perceived usefulness and growth need
Status: Accepted

Journal: Work, Aging, and Retirement

Published Year: 2023

Authors: H Xie, Y Fang, Mo Wang, J Liu, A Lv
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The Operations Triad Model and youth mental health assessments: Catalyzing a paradigm shift in measurement validation
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: A De Los Reyes, Mo Wang, M Lerner, B Makol, O Fitzpatrick, J Weisz
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Understanding knowledge sharing from an identity-based motivational perspective
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Management

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: Mo Wang, A Burmeister, Y Song, A Hirschi
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Reacting to perceived overqualification: Uniting strain-based and self-regulatory adjustment reactions and the moderating role of formal work arrangements.
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Business and Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: M Debus, B Korner, Mo Wang, M Kleinmann
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Challenges for AI Regulation in Health and for Healthcare Organizations: Notes from the University of Florida's NSF-Sponsored Workshop on AI Governance.
Status: Published

Published Year: 2023

Authors: M Prosperi, J Bian, C Harle, Mo Wang, Gwendolyn Lee, Yixuan Li, P Veltri
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Retaining retirement-eligible older workers through training participation: The joint implications of individual growth need and organizational climates
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: Yixuan Li, Konrad Turek, Kene Henkens, Mo Wang
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Preretirement resources and post-retirement life satisfaction change trajectory: Examining the mediating role of retiree experience during retirement transition phase
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: Jessie Zhan, Ariane Froidevaux, Yixuan Li, Mo Wang, Junqi Shi
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Age and sickness absence: Testing physical health issues and work engagement as countervailing mechanisms in a cross-national context
Status: Accepted

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, Y Shao, B Goštautaitė, T Ng
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From creative environment to administrative innovation: Creation and implementation in top management teams
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Creative Behavior

Accepted Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, L Chen, Y Gong, Y Song
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From inclusive climate to organizational innovation: Examining internal and external enablers for knowledge management capacity
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Yixuan Li, Yiduo Shao, Mo Wang, Yaping Gong, Chang Li
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Racial biases the publication process: Exploring expressions and solutions
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Management

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, D Avery, D Brown, T Dumas, E George, A Joshi, D Loyd, D Van Knippenberg, H Xu
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The impacts of digital technologies on successful aging in non-work and work domains: An organizing taxonomy
Status: Published

Journal: Work, Aging, and Retirement

Published Year: 2022

Authors: N Sheng, Y Fang, Y Shao, V Alterman, Mo Wang
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The work and social adjustment scale for youth: Psychometric properties of the teacher version and evidence of contextual variability in psychosocial impairments
Status: Published

Journal: Psychological Assessment

Published Year: 2022

Authors: A De Los Reyes, C Cook, M Sullivan, Mo Wang, F Gresham, C Hamlin, B Hamlin, L Keeley, N Qasmieh
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Too much to know? The cognitive demands of daily knowledge seeking and the buffering role of coworker contact quality
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Mo Wang, A Burmeister, V Alterman, U Fasbender
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Best not to know: Pay secrecy, employee voluntary turnover, and the conditioning effect of distributive justice
Status: Published

Journal: Academy of Management Journal

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Mo Wang, V Alterman, P Bamberger, J Koopmann, E Belogolovsky, J Shi
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Changes in perceptions of ethical leadership: Effects on associative and dissociative outcomes
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Mo Wang, T Ng, D Hsu, C Su
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Distressed and distracted by COVID-19 during high-stakes virtual interviews: The role of job interview anxiety on performance and reactions
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Mo Wang, J McCarthy, D Truxillo, T Bauer, B Erdogan, Y Shao, J Liff, C Gardner
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Employees’ reactions towards COVID-19 information exposure: Insights from terror management theory and generativity theory
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: R Shao, L He, C Chang, Mo Wang, N Baker, J Pan, Y Jin
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Making daily decisions to work from home or to work in the office: The impacts of daily work- and COVID-related stressors on next-day work location
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Y Shao, Y Fang, Mo Wang, C Chang, L Wang
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My fault or yours? Leader’s dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self-construal
Status: Published

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Mo Wang, H 2.tDeng, C Lam, Y Guan
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Leveraging age diversity for organizational performance: An intellectual capital perspective
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2021

Authors: Y 5.tLi, Y Gong, A Burmeister, Mo Wang, V Alterman, A Alonso, S Robinson
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Effects of family encouragement on migrant workers’ return-to-hometown intention and turnover: The moderating role of career-related concerns
Status: Published

Published Year: 2020

Authors: G Li, Y Fang, Y Song, J Chen, Mo Wang
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Embracing robustness and reliability in the science of organizations
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Management

Published Year: 2020

Authors: Gwendolyn Lee, Mo Wang
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A multiplex view of leadership structure in management teams
Status: Published

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2020

Authors: Y Song, Y Fang, Mo Wang, J Shi
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Is student loan debt good or bad for full-time employment upon graduation from college?
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2020

Authors: A Froidevaux, J Koopmann, Mo Wang, P Bamberger
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Lead the horse to water, but don’t make him drink: The effects of moral identity symbolization on coworker behavior depend on perceptions of proselytization
Status: Published

Journal: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Published Year: 2020

Authors: L Zhu, S Restubog, K Leavitt, L Zhou, Mo Wang
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Results provide information about cumulative probabilities of finding significance: Let’s report this information
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Journal: Journal of Management

Published Year: 2020

Authors: P Bliese, Mo Wang
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Understanding the motivational benefits of knowledge transfer for older and younger workers in age-diverse coworker dyads: An actor-partner interdependence model
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2020

Authors: A Burmeister, Mo Wang, A Hirschi
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How does workplace helping behavior step up or slack off? Integrating enrichment-based and depletion-based perspectives
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Management

Published Year: 2020

Authors: Mo Wang, J Koopmann
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Multiplex View of Leadership Structure in Management Teams
Status: Accepted

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Accepted Year: 2020

Authors: Yifan Song, Yanran Fang, Mo Wang, Junqi Shi
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Self-regulation perspective on how and when regulatory focus differentially relates to citizenship behaviors.
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2019

Authors: Jaclyn Koopmann, Russell Johnson, Mo Wang, Klodiana Lanaj, Guofeng Wang, Junqi Shi
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A formal model of leadership goal striving: Development of core process mechanisms and extensions to action team context
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2019

Authors: L Zhou, Mo Wang, J Vancouver
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A self-regulation perspective on how and when regulatory focus differentially relates to citizenship behaviors
Status: Accepted

Journal: Journal of Applied Psychology

Published Year: 2019

Authors: J Koopmann, R Johnson, Mo Wang, K Lanaj, G Wang, J Shi
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An actor-partner interdependence model of employees’ and coworkers’ innovative behavior, psychological detachment, and strain reactions
Status: Accepted

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2019

Authors: T Ng, Mo Wang
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Expatriates’ performance profiles: Examining the effects of work experiences on the longitudinal change patterns
Status: Published

Journal: Journal of Management

Published Year: 2019

Authors: Mo Wang, R Takeuchi, Y Li
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Family encouragement to return and migrant worker turnover: The mediating role of return-to-hometown intention and the moderating role of career-related concerns
Status: Accepted

Accepted Year: 2019

Authors: Guo Liang Li, Yanran Fang, Yifan Song, Jingqiu Chen, Mo Wang
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Technical report publications Last 5 years

Understanding the Aging Workforce: Set the Research Agenda
Status: Published

Published Year: 2022

Author: Mo Wang
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Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management?
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Published Year: 2020

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