Public Lecture by Dr Jian Ni – “A Dynamic Game of Doctors’ participation in Online Platform”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "A Dynamic Game of Doctors’ participation in Online Platform" presented by Dr Jian Ni, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on 27 July 2017 in AG710, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: Online healthcare communities allow physicians to share knowledge with peers (participate) and answer questions from patients (communicate) and patients to make appointment with doctors. How to motivate doctors to contribute expertise to help consumers achieve more judicious decisions is of fundamental importance for online healthcare platforms. We develop a dynamic equilibrium model in which doctors make participation and communication decisions to compete for demand from patients. The model recognizes learning from peers and the dynamic trade-off of the two decision variables: while publishing signals quality, it also intensifies competition among doctors in the long-run because of learning; communication helps increase demand at the risk of receiving lower ratings for service quality. Applying the model to a unique dataset with history of doctor participation and communication decisions, we estimate the viewership demand elasticity, returns to scale in production, and analyze the factors and efficiency of doctor's decisions and their implications. Estimates of the structural parameters explain observed heterogeneity in doctors' choice, frequency and intensity, and understand how participation in the online platform drives the change of doctor ranking/reputation/productivity. Counterfactual simulations allow us to evaluate various policy interventions and quantify the aggregate benefit for the health care providers.     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture by Dr Meng Zhu – “The Motivational Consequences of Resource Constraints”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "The Motivational Consequences of Resource Constraints" presented by Dr Meng Zhu, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on 27 July 2017 in AG710, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: In spite of a rich body of knowledge that has primarily focused on examining the impact of resource constraints on consumers' cognitive performance, attentional focus, physiological responses, and choice strategies, our understanding of the motivational consequences of resource availability remains limited. In our recent research, we examine the impact of resource constraints on individuals' extrinsic motivation (e.g., effort-exertion contexts where external rewards are provided) and intrinsic motivation (e.g., learning contexts where no contingencies of tangible rewards or punishments are provided). The results from our investigations advance and deepen our understanding of the powerful and profound influences of constraints on human society, shedding further light on individual decision makers' adaptive versus maladaptive responses to resource constraints and offering implications for policy makers who seek to improve the long-term wellbeing of our institutions, communities and society as a whole.     MORE DETAILS

Academy of Management Journal Paper and Idea Development Workshop “New Ways of Seeing”

MM held the Academy of Management Journal Paper and Idea Development Workshop, themed "New Ways of Seeing" on 29 & 30 December 2017 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. The purpose of the workshop is to develop papers and ideas that could later be submitted for review in AMJ's Special Research Forum (SRF) on "NEW WAYS OF SEEING: Using Novel Theory and Meaningful Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Advance Management Research". This Special Research Forum (SRF) encourages "New Ways of Seeing." This theme challenges our community of researchers, and beyond, to consider fresh, novel, and different theoretical positions, assumptions, and frameworks that expose and empirically examine new phenomena or permit new ways of seeing well-researched phenomena. In addition, new ways of seeing may also provide an impetus to engage in meaningful, ground-breaking partnerships with researchers in other disciplines-using, building, or extending conceptual frameworks, research designs, and analytic techniques rooted in disciplines outside of the management domain to advance our understanding of management issues. The workshop is a 1.5 day event and includes presentations by AMJ's editorial team as well as presentations and roundtable discussions from participants.     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture by Prof. Peter Bamberger – “Addressing the “Too Much Theory” Problem in Management and Organizational Research: Abductive Reasoning and the Role of Academy of Management Discoveries”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "Addressing the 'Too Much Theory' Problem in Management and Organizational Research: Abductive Reasoning and the Role of Academy of Management Discoveries" presented by Prof. Peter Bamberger, Professor of Management and Organizations School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University & Research Director, Smithers Institute, Cornell University on 6 March 2017 in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. Abstract: Management and Organizational research is largely grounded on two basic logics or epistemological approaches, namely induction and deduction. These approaches have served our science well, gaining our ­field respect among the sciences, and resulting in its rapid growth over the past decades. However, increasingly scholars have begun to question whether the grounding of our fi­eld in these two logics alone may be overly restrictive, generating obtuse and abstract results and limiting our relevance to the broader community which our science seeks to serve. In this talk, I will present a complementary scienti­c logic, one grounded on abductive reasoning (i.e., inference to the best plausible explanation). Building upon Mantere & Ketokivi’s (2013: 72) statement that, "we predict, confirm, and discon­firm through deduction, generalize through induction, and theorize through abduction," I will distinguish the latter from these other two, more established scientifi­c logics. After demonstrating how abduction serves as the basis for many other scientific ­fields, I will argue that it also serves as the under-recognized (and often maligned) basis upon much of what we do as management scholars. Finally, I will discuss the types of situations for which such an approach may be most suitable and how scholars might design and present studies grounded on such a logic in order to maximize theoretical contribution and practical impact.   MORE DETAILS

6th Symposium of the Centre for Leadership & Innovation “Rewards, Motivation, Creativity and Innovation: Meeting of the Minds and the Theories”

The Centre for Leadership & Innovation (CLI) organized its 6th annual symposium, themed "Meeting of the Minds and the Theories", on 3 March in Multi-function Hall, Alumni Atrium, Chung Sze Yuen Building. The event attracted more than 85 researchers, students and business executives from different universities, professional organizations and companies. This year, it has invited Prof. Marylène Gagné, The University of Western Australia, Prof. Barry Gerhart, University of Wisconsin, Prof. Peter Bamberger, Tel Aviv University and Prof. Anthony Nyberg, University of South Carolina to be our keynote speakers. The symposium aims at providing a platform for students, researchers and practitioners to learn and exchange ideas about important leadership topics. Keynote topics include: "A New Look at Compensation Systems Using Self-determination Theory", "Pay for Performance, Motivation, Creativity, and Effectiveness: Claims, Evidence, and Future Directions" , "Pay Transparency: A Review of Recent Findings and Some Hints at What's Soon to Follow…." and "Collective Pay: A Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Levels Theoretical and Empirical Integration".     MORE DETAILS

Professional Mentorship Workshop: Mövenpick Coffee - Latte Art

Date: 9 Feb 2017 (Thu) Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Venue: Staff Club, PolyU     MORE DETAILS

IRSPM 2016 Conference – “Collaborative, Globalized and Interdisciplinary: Moving the Public Management Debate Forward”

This was the 20th annual conference of the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) and the 2nd time being held in Hong Kong since 2003. Originated in Europe, IRSPM has built itself into a leading and flourishing international research community of public management researchers from all over the world. It provides a platform for members to share research findings and explore emerging issues in public administration. More than 450 papers were presented in 160 sessions grouped under 8 Panel Topics and 4 provocation panels. On top of them was a "Roundtable on Governance Challenges for Hong Kong" with past and present government officials and public organization executives to talk about governance and policy formation in HK and to give the audience a taste of the city. Another major attraction was the Editors’ Forum joined by Editors of leading journals including Public Management Review, International Public Management Journal, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Australian Journal of Public Administration, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory with the topic on publishing academic papers in top-tier public management journals.     MORE DETAILS

MM Graduate Reception

Date: 8 Apr 2016 (Fri) Time: 14:30 – 17:30 Venue: Chinese Garden, PolyU     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture Prof. Neal Ashkanasy – “Managing Emotions in the Workplace: An Essential Challenge for Managers”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "Managing Emotions in the Workplace: An Essential Challenge for Managers" presented by Prof. Neal Ashkanasy, Professor of Management, University of Queensland in M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower. Abstract: Emotions in workplace settings, and especially emotional intelligence, are 'hot' topics in management today. Leading business journals, such as Fortune and Harvard Business Review, regularly feature articles on emotional intelligence. But there is more to emotions in the workplace than just emotional intelligence. In this talk, Prof. Ashkanasy will introduce some intriguing new research that examines both emotional intelligence and the broader issue of emotion, which has been shown to play a powerful role in workplace settings, and has a strong potential for practical application in organizations within many broad human resource functions such as selection, performance management, and training, as well as implications for more narrow domains like customer service. He will emphasize in particular how the study of emotions in organizational settings has provided new and important insights into the way in which people in organizations behave, and will off­er and advice for managers to enable them to develop and to maintain a positive emotional climate in their organizations.     MORE DETAILS

Public Lecture Prof. Peter Bamberger – “Help – This is Stressful! Help Seeking, Helping and Stressor-Strain Relations”

MM held a Public Lecture on the topic "Help – This is Stressful! Help Seeking, Helping and Stressor-Strain Relations" presented by Prof. Peter Bamberger, Professor of Management and Organizations School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University in M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower. Abstract: In this talk I will review a stream of research integrating stressor-strain relations and a dyadic perspective on peer helping processes in organizations. The talk will begin by reviewing the mixed ­findings regarding the so-called buffering effect of support received on recipient stressor-strain relations, and how, by considering generalized reciprocity, the inconsistencies in that body of research may be resolved. Based on this ­finding, I identify two new important directions for research on peer-based helping in organizations. Building on our fi­nding that situations of over- and under-reciprocity (giving more than receiving, and vice-versa) can have ill effects on those engaged in helping relationships, I fi­rst discuss how helping can and probably should be examined from a more a dyadic perspective. In this regard, I will talk about the fi­ndings from a qualitative study demonstrating that recipient-provider relations are negotiated orders that can shift over time, with the degree and nature of such shifts having robust implications on helping outcomes. Then, drawing from the notion that over-reciprocity can exacerbate stressor-strain relations, I will discuss the benefi­ts and liabilities to the help provider of helping others in the context of occupational stress. In this regard, I will present fi­ndings from a recently completed study of the buffering and reverse-buffering effects of helping on provider stressor-strain relations.     MORE DETAILS