Department of Management Head of Department: Jiatao LI, Chair Professor of Management UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM The responsibility of managers is the effective and efficient management of individuals and groups in business firms and non-profit organizations. Management of organizations, therefore, deals with the many aspects of the administration of an organization such as the formulation of goals including long- and short-term planning, the establishment of decision-making processes, the design of organizational structures, the understanding of human motivations, and the development of human resources. Courses offered cover the following areas of study: organizational behavior, negotiation, management in Chinese contexts, human resources management, strategic management, and international management. The program aims to provide students with the knowledge they will need to become effective managers. They will learn to evaluate the current needs of an organization and to anticipate future needs, as well as acquire practical skills in planning, decision making, and problem solving. Curriculum Description of the curriculum and courses for the following program is presented online at http://publish.ust.hk/calendar : Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Management FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS Chair Professors Larry Jiing-Lih FARH ( 樊 景 立 ), BS National Taiwan; MBA National Chengchi; PhD Indiana Research Interests: Guanxi and managerial networking, paternalistic leadership, organizational justice, organizational citizenship behavior, and values and business ethics in Chinese societies. Jiatao LI ( 李 家 濤 ), BS Dalian Maritime Univ; MBA Portland State; PhD Univ of Texas, Dallas (Associate Dean (Faculty) of Business and Management, Head of Department, Director of Center for Business Strategy and Innovation, and Director of Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research) Research Interests: Multinational corporate strategy, international corporate governance, and top management teams in international joint venture. 197
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Professors Prithviraj CHATTOPADHYAY ( 樂 華 ), BSc Calcutta; PhD Univ of Texas, Austin Research Interests: Relational demography, managerial cognition and emotions, and employment externalization. Elizabeth GEORGE ( 雪 麗 ), BA Bombay; MA Tata Inst of Soc Sc; PhD Univ of Texas, Austin Research Interests: Consequences of employment externalization, diversity in organizations, and individual role in institutional change. Adjunct Professors Roger Rongxin CHEN ( 陳 榮 鑫 ), BS Shanghai Univ of Eng Sc; MS Shanghai Jiao Tong; PhD Univ of Texas, Dallas Research Interests: Competitive strategies, organizational capabilities, business competition in emerging markets. Paul M. F. CHENG ( 鄭 明 訓 ), BA Lake Forest Coll; MBA Pennsylvania Research Interests: Human resource management, leadership and management in Chinese context. Cassian K. S. CHEUNG ( 張 嘉 聲 ), BSc St Joseph's Coll, Indiana; MMgt Northwestern Research Interests: Leadership, co-operate culture and strategic management. Steven J. DEKREY ( 戴 啓 思 ), BA Bemidji State Coll; MS Univ of Wisconsin, La Crosse; MBA Northwestern; PhD, EdS Iowa (Senior Associate Dean, and Director of MBA/EMBA/MSc Programs, School of Business and Management) Research Interests: Leadership, emotional intelligence and personality assessment. Laurence FRANKLIN ( 范 凱 霖 ), BA, MBA, JD Stanford Research Interests: Venture capital, China, business law topics. 198
John F. HULPKE ( 胡 祺 ), BA Westmont Coll; MA California State Univ, San Francisco; PhD Univ of California, Berkeley Research Interests: Relationship of business and society (how managers deal with issues such as discrimination and environmental pollution), how changing economic policies in China relate to social issues, entrepreneurship, and general international management issues. Barry Zane POSNER, BA Univ of California, Santa Barbara; MA Ohio State; PhD Massachusetts Research Interests: Leadership, organizational behavior, small group dynamics. Caroline WANG ( 王 嘉 陵 ), BS National Taiwan; MS Harvard; MA Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Associate Professors Yaping GONG ( 龔 亞 平 ), BA, MA Renmin; PhD Ohio State Research Interests: Subsidiary staffing in multinational firms, multinational groups, human resource management systems and firm performance, international adjustment issues. Bilian Ni SULLIVAN ( 倪 碧 蓮 ), BA, MA Peking; MA Univ of Illinois, Chicago; MA, PhD Stanford Research Interests: Organizational learning and change, organizational and interorganizational networks, population learning, international management and decision making. Riki TAKEUCHI ( 竹 內 理 樹 ), BA North Carolina State; MS Purdue; PhD Univ of Maryland, College Park Research Interests: International organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic human resource management and social exchange perspectives. Heli C. WANG ( 王 鶴 麗 ), BS Hebei Inst; BA Beijing Univ of Int'l Bus & Econ; MBA Winona State; PhD Ohio State Research Interests: Corporate diversification and M&A, internal capital markets, agency theory and corporate governance, risk management, and stakeholder theory. 199
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Ellick K. F. WONG ( 黃 健 輝 ), BSocSc, MPhil, PhD Chinese Univ of Hong Kong Research Interests: Managerial decision-making, human judgement and decision processes, language processing, and human attention. Adjunct Associate Professors Frank CHING ( 秦 家 聰 ), BA Fordham; MA New York Research Interests: Local and international politics, and economics and social issues. Paul W. FORSTER ( 霍 思 德 ), BS Alberta; MS, MBA Western Ontario; MS, PhD Univ of California, Irvine (Adjunct Associate Professor of Environment, and Acting Director of Global Students and Programs Office) Research Interests: Organizational and Social impacts of technology; global logistics, business and global climate change. Karen LEE ( 李 嘉 倫 ), BA Univ of California, Berkeley; MBA New South Wales; DBA Univ of Newcastle Research Interests: Leadership, change management, knowledge management. Stephen NASON ( 利 晨 ), BS Univ of Texas, Austin; MA Michigan State; PhD Southern California Research Interests: Organizational learning, cross-cultural and Chinese management, international human resource management, and joint venture effectiveness in China. Assistant Professors Melody Manchi CHAO ( 周 文 芝 ), BA Univ of California, Berkeley; MA, PhD Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Research Interests: Multicultural psychology; globalization organizational behavior; normative judgments; social identification; social categorization. Jinyu HE ( 何 今 宇 ), BSc Hebei Inst of Tech; MSc Nankai; PhD Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Research Interests: Competitive dynamics, coopetition, strategic factor markets, and corporate governance. 200
Zhi HUANG ( 黃 智 ), BA Chongqing; MA, PhD Cand Boston Coll Research Interests: Organizational theory, organizational sociology, status and relational network structures, and organizational behaviors and outcomes. Alex B. MARKLE ( 麥 雅 仕 ), BS Carnegie Mellon; PhD Chicago Research Interests: Organizational behavior; managerial learning in different cultural settings; managerial judgment and decision making. Emily M. NASON ( 劉 夢 琳 ), BBA Hong Kong Univ of Sc & Tech; PhD Univ of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: Organizational justice, negotiations and conflict management, behavioral decision making, and cross-cultural human resource and knowledge management. Wouter STAM ( 譚 志 德 ), MSc Maastricht; PhD VU Univ Amsterdam Research Interests: The antecedents and consequences of intra- and interorganizational networks, (institutional) entrepreneurship, organizational learning, knowledge creation and transfer. Jing ZHU ( 朱 靜 ), BA Renmin; PhD Minnesota Research Interests: Team processes and effectiveness; team attitudes and composition; expatriate adjustment and cross-cultural human resource & organizational behavior; dynamic job search behaviors and processes; longitudinal and multilevel theory and research. Visiting Scholar Mary HAN ( 韓 瑪 莉 ), BA York Univ, Toronto; MBA Heriot-Watt; DBA Strathclyde Research Interests: Strategic entrepreneurship, organization adaptation, international management. 201