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Ning Li

Assistant Professor
Management & Organizations
W324  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994		 Ph: 319-335-2117
Fax: 319-335-1956
E-mail: ning-li-1@uiowa.edu
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Academic History

  • PhD in Organizational Behavior/Human Resources, Texas A&M University, 2012
  • BSc in Business Administration, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2005

Expertise

  • Individual differences
  • OCB and proactive behavior
  • Social network
  • Team leadership

Awards

  • Best Overall Doctoral Paper - “Standing out or fitting in? A multilevel examination of leader-member exchange theory in the workgroup context”, Southern Management Association , November 2011
  • Mays Business School 2010-11 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student, Texas A&M University, May 2011
  • Best Overall Doctoral Paper -“A Temporal Perspective of Transaction Cost Theory”, Southern Management Association, November 2010

Selected Publications

  • Getting along to get ahead: The effect of extraversion on interpersonal citizenship when impression management motives are high., Dan S. Chiaburu, Adam C. Stoverink, Ning Li, Xin-an Zhang, Journal of Management - Publication Details Forthcoming
  • Getting everyone on board: The effect of executive differentiated transformational leadership on top management team effectiveness and subsidiary firm performance., Xin-an Zhang, Ning Li, Johannes Ullrich, Rolf van Dick, Journal of Management - Publication Details Forthcoming
  • Spotlight on the followers: Neutralizing the effect of transformational leadership on subordinates’ citizenship and taking charge, Ning Li, Dan Chiaburu, Brad Kirkman, Zhitao Xie, Personnel Psychology - Publication Details Forthcoming
  • The theory of purposeful work behavior: The role of personality, job characteristics, and experienced meaningfulness, Murray Barrick, Michael Mount, Ning Li, Academy of Management Review, 2013 - Publication Details Forthcoming
  • Promoting newcomers’ performance: The role of developmental feedback and proactive personality: An interactionist perspective, Ning Li, Brad Harris, Wendy Boswell, Zhitao Xie, Journal Applied Psychology, vol 96, 2011, 1317-1327
  • The five-factor model of personality traits and organizational citizenship, Dan Chiaburu, In-sue Oh, Christopher Berry, Ning Li, Richard Gardner, Journal of Applied Psychology, vol 96, 2011, 1140-1166
  • The role of proactive personality in job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior: A relational perspective, Ning Li, Jian Liang, Mike Crant, Journal of Applied Psychology, vol 95, 2010, 395-404

Working Papers

  • Beyond individual citizenship: Toward a multilevel model of team citizenship behavior, Ning Li, Brad Kirkman, christopher Porter
  • Coworker influences on citizenship and taking charge: Team-level processes and contingencies, Dan Chiaburu, Adam Stoverink, Ning Li, Xingshan Zheng
  • Getting what’s new from newcomers: The role of empowering leadership in newcomers’ creativity, Brad Harris, Ning Li, Wendy Boswell, Xin-an Zhang, Zhitao Xie
  • Standing out or fitting in? A multilevel examination of leader-ember exchange theory in the workgroup context, Brad Harris, Ning Li, Brad Kirkman
  • Support from the organization and taking charge: Exploring non-linear relationships and their contingencies, Meredith Burnett, Dan Chiaburu, Ning Li, Debra Shapiro
  • The paradox of LMX differentiation: How treating followers differently can both enhance and impede employee performance, Ning Li, Brad Kirkman
  • Unspoken Yet Understood: A Chinese Perspective of Moqi’s Influence on Subordinates’ Work Effectiveness, Xingshan Zheng, Dan Chiaburu, Ning Li, Hui Liao

          Review and Editorial Work

          • Referee, Journal of Organizational Behavior, October 2012 - current
          • Referee, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2012 - current
          • Referee, Organizational Psychology Review, 2012 - current
          • Referee, Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2011 - current
          • Referee, Human Relations, 2011 - current
          • Referee, Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, 2010 - current