
| Li Shao-Long |
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department |
Department of Business Administration, Wuhan University |
Email: tli@whu.edu.cn |
PhD, Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2010-2015) |
B.A., Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (2006-2010) |
TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS
Teaching courses: Organizational Behavior, Compensation Management
Research Areas: Compensation Management, Performance Management, Team Leadership, Ethical Behavior
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, December 2019-present
Assistant Professor, Economics and Management School of Wuhan University, July 2015-November 2019
Visiting Research Fellow, Business School of The University of Western Australia, August 2018-August 2019
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers (International)
He, W., Li, S. L.*, Feng J., Zhang G., & Sturman M. C. (2021). When Does Pay for Performance Motivate Employee Helping Behavior? The Contextual Influence of Performance Subjectivity. Academy of Management Journal, 64: 293-326.
He, W., Hao, P., Huang, X., Long, L. R.*, Hiller, N. J., & Li, S. L. (2020). Different Roles of Shared and Vertical Leadership in Promoting Team Creativity: Cultivating and Synthesizing Team Members’ Individual Creativity. Personnel Psychology, 73: 199-225.
Li, S. L., Huo, Y.*, & Long, L. R. (2017). Chinese Traditionality Matters: Effects of Differentiated Empowering Leadership on Followers’ Trust in Leaders and Work Outcomes. Journal of Business Ethics, 145(1): 81-93.
Li, S. L., He, W.*, Yam, K. C., & Long, L. R. (2015). When and Why Empowering Leadership Increases Followers’ Taking Charge: A Multilevel Examination in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 32(3): 645-670.
Journal Papers (Domestic)
Wang, G. X., Long, L. R., Li, S. L.*, Sun, F., Wang, J. Q., & Huang, S. Y. Z. (2025). A Comparative Study on Human or AI Delivering Negative Performance Feedback Influencing Employees’ Motivation to Improve Performance. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 57(2): 298-314.
Li, S. L., Lu, K. Q., Long, L. R.*, Sun, F., & Lei, X. (2024). A Literature Review on Gamified Human Resource Management in the Digital Era. Chinese Journal of Management, 21(5): 779-790.
Li, S. L., Long, L. R.*, & Zhu, S. (2017). Is Inequality rather than Scarcity the Cause of Problem? An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Differentiated Empowering Leadership and Team Performance. Chinese Journal of Management, 14(7): 1006-1014, 1069.
Li, S. L., Long, L. R., & Zhu, Q. (2015). Pursuing Change Collaboratively: An Empirical Research on the Mechanisms of Participative Leadership and Employees’ Taking Charge. Forecasting, 34(3): 1-7.
Li, S. L., Long, L. R., & He, W. (2012). A Cross-Level Study of Relationships between Industrial Attributes, Pay Dispersion in Top Management Team and Firm Performance. Nankai Business Review, 15(4): 55-65.
SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS
National Natural Science Foundation of China: “From ‘Annual Appraisal’ to ‘Timely Guidance’: Research on Agile Performance Feedback System Empowered by Digitalization and Machine Intelligence”, (Ref. No. 72272114), ¥450,000, 2023-2026 (expected), principal investigator.
National Natural Science Foundation of China: “Which One Counts: Guanxi or Competence? A Systematical Study on Leader Empowerment Tactics in the Team Context”, (Ref. No. 71602147), ¥170,000, 2017-2019, principal investigator.
National Natural Science Foundation of China: “Harmonious Labor Relations in Transitional China: Sharing Leadership, Psychological Contract, and Human Resource Strategies”, (Ref. No. 71232001), ¥2,400,000, 2013-2017, project member.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Wiley “Top Cited Article 2020-2021”, 2022.
Third Prize Award in the 12th Teaching Competition at Wuhan University, 2024.
Second Prize Award in the 10th Teaching Competition at Economic and Management School of Wuhan University, 2024.
Third Prize Award in the 9th Teaching Competition at Economic and Management School of Wuhan University, 2022.
Third Prize Award in the 10th Teaching Competition at Wuhan University, 2020.
First Prize Award in the 8th Teaching Competition at Economic and Management School of Wuhan University, 2020.
Third Prize Award in the 7th Teaching Competition at Economic and Management School of Wuhan University, 2018.
Third Prize Award in the 6th Teaching Competition at Economic and Management School of Wuhan University, 2016.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Journal Ad-hoc Reviewer
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
International Journal of Hospitality Management
International Journal of Human Resource Management