Cindy Wu

Professional Summary

Cindy Wu is the associate dean for Diversity and Inclusion and a professor of Management at the Hankamer School of Business. She earned her PhD in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also certified in Workplace Diversity and Inclusion by Cornell University. Wu has been on faculty at the Hankamer School of Business since 2003.

Wu conducts research in the areas of employee wellbeing and leadership. Specifically, she is interested in how employees may most effectively recover their energy from work stress, and how organizations and leader may help employees flourish as holistic human beings. Her research work has been published in such journals as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the International Journal of Business Studies. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. She has taught courses in Human Resource Management (undergraduate and MBA levels), Human Resources Staffing and Labor Relations, and Organizational Behavior (undergraduate and PhD levels) at the Hankamer School of Business. She currently teaches courses in Human Resource Management.

Education

• 2003- PhD, Human Resources and Industrial Relations, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
• 2001- MA, Labor and Industrial Relations, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
• 2000- MBA, Human Resource Management Specialization, Institute of Human Resource Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• 1995- BBA, Business Management, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Courses

• MGT 4336 – Human Resource Management

Research Interests

• Employee health and wellbeing
• Leadership behavior and influences
• Work-life interface

Selected Publications

• Chen, Y.-C., & Wu, C (2022). The relationship between customer mistreatment and workplace deviance: Mediating and moderating effects. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2022.2067041
• Neubert, M. J., Wu, C., & Dougherty, K. D. (2021). Servant leadership from multiple domains and follower work behavior. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, 18(4), 272-292.
• Wu, C., Hunter, E. M., Sublett, L. W. (2021). Gaining affective resources for work-family enrichment: A multisource experience sampling study of micro-role transitions. Journal of Vocational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103541.
• Wu, C., Chen, Y.-C., & Umstattd Meyer, M. R. (2020). A moderated mediation model of emotional labor and service performance: Examining the role of work-family interface and physically active leisure. Human Performance, 33(1), 34-51.
• Hunter, E. M., & Wu, C. (2016). Give me a better break: Choosing workday break activities to maximize resource recovery. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 302-311.