Jian Han

Dr. Jian Han is Associate Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation at CEIBS. Her research and teaching interests mainly focus on advancing the world of work through human resource management.

Dr. Han''s research has been published in a number of scholarly journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Organizational Research Method, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Career Assessment, and Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2013). She also published several book chapters in the field of staffing, managing workforce diversity, and cross-cultural management.

Dr. Han is an active contributor to professional conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Conference and the World Economic Forum (WEF). She has served on the WEF Global Agenda Council since 2013. She has been academic director of the Europe-China Business Management Programme (2010-2011) and the WEF Global Leadership Programme (2011-2013). 

Dr. Han is the recipient of several awards including the 2012 Winner of the Best International Paper Award of Career Division, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Boston (in coll. with Neng Liang and Lan Wang); Winner of the 2012 EFMD Case Competition in the category Emerging Chinese Global Competitors (in coll. with Fu, Xin) ; First-prize Winner of the Best Case Award, the 2011 National Case Competition on Case-based Teaching in Business Administration and Theory-building, China (in coll. with Fu, Xin); She was the principal investigator (2007-2009) of the Chinese NSF project on "Managing Workforce Diversity and Innovation".

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University, USA

Research Interests

• Strategic human resource management
• Team effectiveness 
• Career development of managerial talent 

Teaching Interests

• Winner of AoM’s Best International Paper Award for Career Division, 2012 
• Winner of EFMD Case Competition in Emerging Chinese Global Competitors category, 2012
• First-prize Winner of Best Case Award, National Case Competition on Case-based Teaching in Business Administration and Theory-building, China, 2011