He Wei is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the School of Business, Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2013) and was a joint Ph.D. student at the University of Washington (2012–2013). He is also a Senior Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024–2025). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2022) and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (2018). His primary research areas include organizational compensation management and employee incentives, talent management, and strategic human resource management. His research has been published in leading domestic and international academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Management World, Acta Psychologica Sinica, China Industrial Economics, and Nankai Business Review. He has received the Best Paper Award of the Human Resources Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2020), the Best Conference Paper Award (2014) and Outstanding Reviewer Award (2015) of the Organizational Behavior Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, and the Best Reviewer Award of Academy of Management Discoveries (2018). He currently serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, and Management and Organization Review, and is on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Personnel Psychology, and Acta Psychologica Sinica.
(Note: † corresponding author; * equal contribution)
1) Zhang, Z.*; He, W.* †; Park, T.Y.*; Xing, Z.; Wu, X. The effects of between-group pay dispersion. Academy of Management Journal, 2023, 66(6): 1860–1895.
2) Watkins, T.; Longmire, N.H.; Kleshinski, C.E.; He, W†. Rekindling the fire and stoking the flames: How and when workplace interpersonal capitalization facilitates pride and knowledge sharing at work. Academy of Management Journal, 2023, 66(3): 953–978.
3) He, W.; Li, S.L.; Feng, J.; Zhang, G.L.; Sturman, M.C. When does pay for performance motivate employee helping behavior? The contextual influence of performance subjectivity. Academy of Management Journal, 2021, 64: 293-326.
4) Yam, K.C.; Klotz, A.; He, W.; Reynolds, S. From good soldiers to psychologically entitled: Examining when and why citizenship behavior leads to deviance. Academy of Management Journal, 2017, 60: 373-396.
5) Li, N.; He, W.; Yam, K.C.; Zhao, H.H. New Technology and OB/HRM in China: Digital Methods for Organizational Research. Management and Organization Review, 2025, 21: 728-733.
6) Carnevale, J. B.; Huang, L.; Vincent, L. C.; Yu, L.; He, W. † Outshined by creative stars: A dual-path model of leader reactions to employees’ reputation for creativity. Journal of Management, 2024, 50: 441-456.
7) Zhou, K.; Xia, Y.; Zhang, G.L.; He, W.; Jiang, K. Delayed pay and employee turnover: The buffering role of pay-for-performance. Human Resource Management, 2024, 63: 121-139.
8) Tu, Y.; Li, J.; Chen, J.; Li, C.J.; He, W. When AI becomes my teammate: Unpacking how employees perceive and collaborate with gendered AI teammates. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2025: 1-25.
9) Zhang, Y.; He, W. †; Long, L.; Zhang, J. Does pay for individual performance truly undermine employee creativity? The different moderating roles of vertical and horizontal collectivist orientations. Human Resource Management, 2022, 61: 21-38.
10) Xi, M.; He, W.; Fehr, R.; Zhao, S. Feeling anxious and abusing low performers: A multilevel model of high performance work system and abusive supervision. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2022, 43: 91-111.
11) Hu, J.; He, W. †; Zhou, K. The mind, the heart, and the leader in times of crisis: How and when COVID-19-triggered mortality salience relates to state anxiety, job engagement, and prosocial behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2020, 105: 1218-1233.
12) He, W.; Hao, P.; Huang, X.; Long, L.; Hiller, N.; Li, S. Different roles of shared and vertical leadership in promoting team creativity: Cultivating and synthesizing team members' individual creativity. Personnel Psychology, 2020, 73: 199-225.
13) He, W.; Han, Y.; Hu, X.; Liu, W.; Yang, B.; Chen, H. From idea endorsement to idea implementation: A multilevel network approach toward managerial voice implementation. Human Relations, 2020, 73: 1563-1582.
14) Mackey, J. D.; Huang, L.; & He, W. You abuse and I criticize: An ego depletion perspective of abusive supervision and destructive voice. Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 164: 579-591.
15) Watkins, T.; Fehr, R.; He, W. † Whatever it takes: Leader beliefs of abusive supervision instrumentality. The Leadership Quarterly, 2019, 30: 260-272.
16) Wang, T.; Long, L.; Zhang, Y.; He, W. A social exchange perspective of employee-organization relationships and employee unethical pro-organizational behavior: The moderating role of individual moral identity. Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, 159: 473-489.
17) Klotz, A.; He, W.; Yam, K.C.; Bolino, M.; Wei, W.; Houston, L. Good actors but bad apples: Counterproductive consequences of daily impression management at work. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2018, 103: 1145-1154.
18) Chen, X.P.*; He, W.* †; Weng, L.C. What is wrong with treating followers differently? The basis of leader-member exchange differentiation matters. Journal of Management, 2018, 44: 946-971.
19) He, W.; Zhou, R.Y.; Long, L.R.; Huang, X.; Hao, P. Self-sacrificial leadership and followers’ affiliative and challenging citizenship behaviors: A relational self-concept based study in China. Management and Organization Review, 2018, 14: 105-133.
20) Fehr, R.; Yam, K.C.; He, W.; Chiang, J.; Wei, W. Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2017, 143: 98-110.
21) He, W.; Fehr, R.; Yam, K.C.; Long, L.R.; Hao, P. Interactional justice, leader-member exchange, and employee performance: Examining the moderating role of justice differentiation. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2017, 38: 537-557.
22) He, W.; Long, L.R.; Kuvaas, B. Workgroup salary dispersion and turnover intention in China: A contingent examination of individual differences and the dual deprivation path explanation. Human Resource Management, 2016, 55: 301-320.
1. Talent Management, NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, 2023–2027
2. Organizational Compensation Distribution and Employee Incentives, NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund, 2019–2021
3. Following Norms or Expressing True Feelings? A Study on Leaders' Emotional Expression Strategies in Organizational Contexts, NSFC General Program, 2018–2021
4. Leader-Member Exchange Strategies and Their Effects on Individual and Team Outcomes, NSFC Young Scientist Fund, 2015–2017
1. Associate Editor: Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, Management and Organization Review
2. Editorial Board Member: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Personnel Psychology, Acta Psychologica Sinica
1. Provincial Second Prize of Jiangsu Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award (2021)
2. Third Prize of the 16th Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Sciences, People's Government of Jiangsu Province (2020)
3. Best Paper Award of the Human Resources Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2020)
4. Best Reviewer Award of Academy of Management Discoveries (2018)
5. Outstanding Reviewer of the Organizational Behavior Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2015)
6. Best Conference Paper Award of the Organizational Behavior Division at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2014)
7. Academic Newcomer Award for Doctoral Students of the Ministry of Education (2011)
8. Du Xia Teaching Award, Nanjing University (2019)
9. First Prize in the Faculty Teaching Competition, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2016)
10. First Prize in the Faculty Teaching Competition, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2015)
Mailing Address: School of Business, Nanjing University, No. 16 Jinyin Street, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, 210023, China
Postal Code: 210023
Affiliation: Nanjing University
Email: whe@nju.edu.cn
