Hwee Hoon Tan

TAN Hwee Hoon is a tenured professor with the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on interpersonal trust within organizations and across cultures.

In addition to an active research agenda, Hwee Hoon is also actively involved in Executive Teaching, both in English and Chinese. She has trained for major profit and non-profit organizations around the region such Aurecon, BCA (Indonesia), Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Civil Service College (Singapore), Hyflux, Johnson and Johnson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Singapore and ASEAN, Servier, the SingTel group, the SingHealth Academy, Singapore Airlines, Sumitomo Chemicals, IMC Corp, International SOS, among others.

Hwee Hoon consults for organizations such as the Singapore Tourism Board, IE Singapore and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and currently sits on the Practices Committee of the Institute of Human Resource Professionals (IHRP), Singapore.

Hwee Hoon has published in many international journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations and many others. She was also the Asia-Pacific Editor of the Journal of World Business from 2000-2004 and currently sits on the review board of Journal of Management.

Education

• 1996 Ph.D. in Management Purdue University
• 1989 Bachelor of Business Administration National University of Singapore

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Dean's Teaching Honour List, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, 2006-2008, 2010, 2012
• Outstanding Educator Award (Department Level), School of Busines , National University of Singapore, 2003
• Outstanding Researcher Award (Department Level), School of Business, National University of Singapore, 2003

Research Interests

• Interpersonal Trust in Organisation
• Emotional Displays and Affect in Service Organisations
• Cross Cultural Management