About Me
Zhou (Joe) Jiang is the Director (interim) of Master of Business Administration (International) and a Senior Lecturer in Management at Deakin Business School, Deakin University. He served as the Deputy Director of the China Business and Economics Research Centre between Feb 2017 and Jan 2018, and the Director of Executive MBA for the preparation and approval process from July 2017 to February 2019. Before joining Deakin University, he held permanent academic positions in Griffith University and Central Queensland University. He received his PhD (awarded October 2014) from Macquarie University where he spent 2 years and 9 months completing a thesis concerning fairness management and employee attitudes in a cross cultural context. Prior to moving to Australia, he was also educated in South Korea for an MBA in human resource management and organizational studies, and in China for a bachelor of biomedical engineering (bioengineering specification).
Joe is a recipient of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher Award (2016). This award is to foster and recognize the research and scholarly achievements of emerging researchers who are at an early stage in an academic career. He was also a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Gender, Diversity, and Indigeneity Stream at the 2015 ANZAM conference.
Since he received his PhD in October 2014, he has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, among which 25 (83%) are in A/A* journals as per the ABDC ranking. His work has appeared in Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Career Assessment, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, Journal of Employment Counseling, Social Indicators Research, Cross Cultural Management, among others.
He has also served as an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Australian Journal of Management, Personality and Individual Differences, Social Indicators Research, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Career Development International, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Journal of Management & Organization, Australian Journal of Career Development, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Happiness Studies.
Joe has supervised five PhD students (two completed). He teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The courses he has taught include leadership and governance, human resource management, employment relations, organizational behavior, performance management, reward management, strategic staffing (recruitment and selection), and business research methods for PhD students.
Joe is a recipient of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher Award (2016). This award is to foster and recognize the research and scholarly achievements of emerging researchers who are at an early stage in an academic career. He was also a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Gender, Diversity, and Indigeneity Stream at the 2015 ANZAM conference.
Since he received his PhD in October 2014, he has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, among which 25 (83%) are in A/A* journals as per the ABDC ranking. His work has appeared in Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Career Assessment, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, Journal of Employment Counseling, Social Indicators Research, Cross Cultural Management, among others.
He has also served as an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Australian Journal of Management, Personality and Individual Differences, Social Indicators Research, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Career Development International, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Journal of Management & Organization, Australian Journal of Career Development, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Happiness Studies.
Joe has supervised five PhD students (two completed). He teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The courses he has taught include leadership and governance, human resource management, employment relations, organizational behavior, performance management, reward management, strategic staffing (recruitment and selection), and business research methods for PhD students.
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Research Interests
Joe's research areas are broadly related to career, work, social, and community issues. Specifically, his research interests include:
- Career development, management, and counseling
- Work and non-work related wellbeing
- The interplay between social, community, and vocational issues
- Workplace justice, leadership, and employee attitudes/behaviors
- 2018: Dr. Joowon (Janice) Ban - "A Conceptualisation and Empirical Evaluation of Eco-Service Quality (ECOPERF) and Its Impact on Behavioural Intentions"
- 2018: Dr. Rongbin Yang - "The Country-of-Origin Effect in the Chinese Dairy Market"
Education Background
- 2011-2014 Doctor of Philosophy (Awarded October 2014), Management, Macquarie University, Australia
- 2008-2010 Master of Business Administration, Human Resource Management and Organizational Studies, Yeungnam University, South Korea
- 2004.09-2008.07 Bachelor of Engineering, Bioengineering, Northwest A & F University, China
Academic Appointments
- 2019.03- : Director (interim), Master of Business Administration (International), Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2017.02- : Senior Lecturer in Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2017.07-2019.02: Director, Executive Master of Business Administration (SWUFE), Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2017.02-2018.02: Deputy Director, China Business and Economics Research Center, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2016.02-2016.12: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
- 2014.08-2016.02: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Management, School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
- 2014.02-2014.07: Associate Lecturer in Management, School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
