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Associate Professor I of Organizational Behavior, International Faculty Fellow at MIT
Organizational Behavior, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Yi-Ren Wang is an Associate Professor I of Organizational Behavior at Asia School of Business. She received her PhD in Management from the University of Alabama. She received her master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from National Taiwan University.
In 2022, she was selected by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology to receive the 2022 S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award. Her research interests include precarious work, workplace inequality, behavioral poverty trap, socioeconomic mobility, work motivation, fairness, work-family dynamics, employee well-being, and workplace trauma. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify ways to reduce social disparities and promote upward mobility, particularly for workers in underprivileged conditions.
She has ongoing projects aiming to 1) explain the motivational and behavioral challenges faced by underprivileged workers at work, 2) highlight the importance of organizational justice for promoting a long-term perspective and career investment for workers in precarity, and 3) theorize the transmission of occupational strain across life boundaries and between individuals.
Yi-Ren Wang is an Associate Professor I of Organizational Behavior at Asia School of Business. She received her PhD in Management from the University of Alabama. She received her master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from National Taiwan University.
In 2022, she was selected by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology to receive the 2022 S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award. Her research interests include precarious work, workplace inequality, behavioral poverty trap, socioeconomic mobility, work motivation, fairness, work-family dynamics, employee well-being, and workplace trauma. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify ways to reduce social disparities and promote upward mobility, particularly for workers in underprivileged conditions.
She has ongoing projects aiming to 1) explain the motivational and behavioral challenges faced by underprivileged workers at work, 2) highlight the importance of organizational justice for promoting a long-term perspective and career investment for workers in precarity, and 3) theorize the transmission of occupational strain across life boundaries and between individuals.