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Name: 梁欣光 Shin-Guang Liang
Discipline: OrgMgt
TEL: 03-4638800 ext. 6261
Email: sgliang@saturn.yzu.edu.tw

Title

Associate Professor; Director of EBBA Program & Deputy Director of BBA Program

Speciality

Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management

Academic BG.

  • PhD in Business Administration, National Taiwan University

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, College of Management, Yuan Ze University (2022/02 - 2025/07)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Cooperative Economics and Social Entrepreneurship, Feng Chia University (2020/02 - 2022/01)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, National Chung Cheng University (2018/02 - 2020/01)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Logistics Management, National Defense University (2013/02 - 2018/01)

Journal Papers

  1. 【1】Liang, S.-G., Lai, H.-F., Wei, S.-C., & Lee, C.-H. (Accept). Perceived overqualification and workplace deviance: A moderated mediation model of psychological entitlement and perceived overqualification social comparison. Corporate Management Review.
  2. 【2】Liang, S.-G., & Wei, S.-C. (2026). The mixed blessing of servant leadership: Investigating the moderating role of followers attributed motives in emotional and behavioral reactions to servant leadership. European Management Journal. Advance online publication. (SSCI, 2025 Impact Factor = 7.6)
  3. 【3】Liang, S. G. (2026). Speaking up, acting out: The moral licensing dynamics linking ethical voice to unethical behavior. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 75, e70105. (SSCI, 2025 Impact Factor = 3.9)
  4. 【4】Lai, H.-F., & Liang, S.-G. (2026). When sharing power leads to taking it back: A shift from empowering to directive leadership. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 99, e70088. (SSCI, 2025 Impact Factor = 4.8)
  5. 【5】Liang, S. G. (2025). The influences of leaders impulsive versus strategic abusive supervision behaviors for leaders themselves: The moderating effect of ideal leadership self-concept. Journal of Management and Systems, 32, 133-160. (in Mandarin)
  6. 【6】Liang, S. G. (2023). I just dont want to lose face: A self-image reparative response framework of how and when abused subordinates improve their performance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 40, 1461-1480. (SSCI, 2023 Impact Factor = 4.9)
  7. 【7】Lai, H. F., Chen, S. C., Liang, S. G., & Chen. S. Y. (2023). Investigating the relationship between third parties witnessing abusive supervision and their performance improvement. Journal of Management and Business Research, 40, 57-79. (in Mandarin)
  8. 【8】Liang, S. G., Lai, H. F., Wei, S. C., & Wu, C. H. (2022). How does daily abusive supervision ruin workplace safety behavior? Investigating the mediating role of organization-based self-esteem and the moderating role of negative affectivity. Journal of Human Resource Management, 22, 55-82. (in Mandarin)
  9. 【9】Liang, S. G., Lai, H. F., Lu, C. C., & Chen, P. H. (2021). Investigating the relationships among perceived overqualification, work engagement, and innovative behavior: Moderating effect of promotion focus. Journal of Management and Business Research, 38, 125-145. (in Mandarin)
  10. 【10】Liang, S. G.,& Chen, Y. C. (2018). I just can not get it out of my mind: A cognitive rumination perspective on the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates long-term negative affective states. Journal of Human Resource Management, 18, 35-56. (in Mandarin)
  11. 【11】Liang, S. G. (2018). The relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates supervisor-directed deviance: The mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of moral identity. Organization and Management, 11, 1-31. (in Mandarin)
  12. 【12】Liang, S. G. (2017). Linking leader authentic personality to employee voice behaviour: A multilevel mediation model of authentic leadership development. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26, 434-443. (SSCI, 2017 Impact Factor = 2.638)
  13. 【13】Chi, S. C. S., Lo, H. H., Liang, S. G., Lai, H. F., & Chu, C. C. (2017). Research findings and prospect of workplace deviant behavior: A review of 2000-2015 studies with Asian samples. NTU Management Review, 27, 259-306. (in Mandarin)
  14. 【14】Liang, S. G., & Lin, J. A. (2016). Examining the relationship between authentic leadership and employee ethical behavior: The mediating role of moral efficacy and the moderating role of moral identity. Journal of Human Resource Management, 16, 1-20. (in Mandarin)
  15. 【15】Liang, S. G., & Chi, S. C. S. (2013). Transformational leadership and follower task performance: The role of susceptibility to positive emotions and follower positive emotions. Journal of Business and Psychology, 28, 17-29. (SSCI, 2013 Impact Factor = 1.544)
  16. 【16】Chi, S. C. S., & Liang, S. G. (2013). When do subordinates emotion-regulation strategies matter? Abusive supervision, subordinates emotional exhaustion, and work withdrawal. Leadership Quarterly, 24, 125-137. (SSCI, 2013 Impact Factor = 2.006)

Conference Papers

  1. Liang, S.-G. (2026). Understanding how and when leaders develop strategic abusive supervision climate. The 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 21-25, Florence, Italy.
  2. Liang, S.-G. (2026). How and when organization-based self-esteem leads to workplace deviance. The 16th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences, March 22-27, Tokyo, Japan.
  3. Liang, S.-G. (2025). The dark side of ethical voice: The relationship between ethical voice and unethical behavior. The 133rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 7-9, Denver, CO, USA.
  4. Liang, S.-G., Wei, S.-C., & Lai, H.-F. (2025). Perceived overqualification social comparison and insecure group attachment. The 133rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 7-9, Denver, CO, USA.
  5. Lai, H.-F., & Liang, S.-G. (2025). Empowering but exhausted: Unraveling the hidden costs of empowering leadership. The 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, July 25-29, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  6. Liang, S.-G. (2025). Exploring the relationship between perceived overqualification social comparison and workplace deviant behaviors. The 15th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences, March 24-29, Tokyo, Japan.
  7. Liang, S.-G. (2024). Investigating how and when coaching leadership boosts creativity. The 11th European Conference on Positive Psychology, July 10-13, Innsbruck, Austria.
  8. Liang, S.-G., & Chiang, W.-C. (2024). How subordinates moqi with supervisors wave influences on their work behaviors: The role of role breadth self-efficacy. The 11th European Conference on Positive Psychology, July 10-13, Innsbruck, Austria.
  9. Liang, S.-G. (2024). Investigating the divergent effects of unintentional and strategic abuse on leaders themselves. The 14th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences, March 25-29, Tokyo, Japan.Liang, S.-G. (2023). Third parties negative reactions to observed abusive supervision: Exploring the moderating role of relative performance. The 18th European Congress of Psychology, July 3-6, Brighton, UK.
  10. Liang, S.-G. (2023). When third-party observers of abusive supervision display daily coworker protective behavior: The role of interpersonal liking and power dependence. The 10th Biennial IACMR Conference, June 14-18, Hong Kong, China.
  11. Liang, S. G. (2022). A self-image reparative response framework of how and when abused subordinates improve their performance. The 17th European Congress of Psychology, July 5-8, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  12. Liang, S. G., Chen, F. F., & Chen, P. H. (2019). When are overqualified employees more innovative? It depends on the power role of employees promotion focus. The 16th European Congress of Psychology, July 2-5, Moscow, Russia.
  13. Liang, S. G. (2018). Undermining of low relative leader-member exchange (RLMX): Investigating the relationships between RLMX, envy, and coworker undermining. The 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology, June 26-30, Montréal, Canada.
  14. Liang, S. G., & Chen, F. F. (2018). A moderated mediation model of prosocial reactions to witnessing abusive supervision. The 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology, June 26-30, Montréal, Canada.
  15. Chi, S. C. S., Liang, S. G., & Lai, H. F. (2017). Exploring when abusive supervision leads to supervisor-directed deviance: A social-norms perspective. The 10th AAOM & TAOM Joint Conference, June 20-21, Fukuoka, Japan.

Research Grants

Books/Pub.

Industrial Grants

Courses

  1. Organizational Behavior (required undergraduate)
  2. Motivation and Leadership (elective undergraduate)
  3. Special Topics in Organization and Talent Management (elective Ph.D. seminar)

Dissertation

Awards & Certificates

Pro. Membership

  1. Academy of Management
  2. Taiwan Academy of Management

Other Contributions