Liu Shengming
Associate Professor
Business Administration
Educational Background
Doctor Degree,Business Administration,Peking University
Bachelor Degree,Human Resources Management,Renmin University of China
Academic Background
2017.09——2018.09,Research Assistant,The University of Iowa, USA
Awards on Research
2018.12,Exceptional Award for Academic Innovation,Peking University
Awards on Teaching
Journal Papers
| 1. | Di Cai, Yong Zhang, Shengming Liu, Jia Liu, and Li Yao. 2025. How enterprise social media facilitate proactive socialization behavior and compensate for mentoring: The role of communication visibility. Information and Management 62(8) 1-16.  |
| 2. | Shengming Liu, Jih-Yu Mao, Ning Li, and Zhang Yue. 2025. Not the time to be humble! When and why leader humility enhances and deteriorates evaluations on leader effectiveness and satisfaction with leader. Journal of Management Studies 62(7) 2707-2733. |
| 3. | Shengming Liu, Jih-Yu Mao, Zhang Yue, and Maoyu Zhang. 2025. Posting on social media: Influences of positive managerial information disclosures on subordinate proactive behaviour and manager–subordinate relationship. British Journal of Management 36(4) 1802-1815. |
| 4. | Shengming Liu, Ning Li, Hui Wang, Zhen Wang, and Jiayi Du. 2025. Is an informal leader always popular? The curvilinear relationships between informal leadership, threat to peers, and helping from peers. Asia Pacific Journal of Management 43 745-776. |
| 5. | Shengming Liu, Mingpeng Huang, Dong Ju, Zhiying Shi, and Minya Xu. 2025. My leader sent me a ☺: The influence of leader smile emoji usage on follower attitude. Management and Organization Review forthcoming 1-37. |
| 6. | Shengming Liu, James K. Summers, Ning Guo, Xiaoxuan Li, Hui Wang. 2025. Political skill and informal leader emergence: The role of relationships, competence and outcome interdependence. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology Volume 98, Issue 1 1-22. |
| 7. | Lifan Chen, Shanshan Zhang, Xiaoli Hu, Shengming Liu, and Rujia Lan. 2024. Does political skill promote knowledge hiding? An impression management perspective. Journal of Knowledge Management 28(6) 1632-1647. |
| 8. | Shengming Liu, Ning Li, and Mingya Xu. 2024. Good soldiers instead of good change agents: Examining the dual effects of self-sacrificial leadership on pro-social behavior and change-oriented behavior in teams. Journal of Management 50(2) 490-522. |
| 9. | Maoyu Zhang, Shiyu Zhou, Yan Wu, and Shengming Liu. 2024. Pressure from social media: influence of social media usage on career exploration. Career Development International 29(1) 93-112. |
| 10. | Dong Ju, Shengming Liu, Marshall Schminke, Mingpeng Huang, and Xin Qin. 2023. The double-edged sword effect of the presence of a moral star: Promotion versus inhibition of nonstars' prosocial behavior. Management and Organization Review 19(5) 932-956. |
| 11. | Minya Xu, Scott B. Dust, and Shengming Liu. 2023. COVID-19 and the great resignation: The role of death anxiety, need for meaningful work, and task significance. Journal of Applied Psychology 108(11) 1790–1811. |
| 12. | Mingpeng Huang, Dong Ju, Kai Chi Yam, Shengming Liu, Xin Qin, and Guangdi Tian. 2023. Employee humor can shield them from abusive supervision. Journal of Business Ethics 186(2) 407-424. |
| 13. | Xiaode Ji, Shengming Liu, and Hui Wang. 2023. Leader failed humor and follower advice seeking. Journal of Managerial Psychology 38(2) 104-115. |
| 14. | Jia Liu, Li Yao, Di Cai, and Shengming Liu. 2022. Do newcomers with high political skill benefit more from the formal mentoring program?. Career Development International 27(6/7) 616-633. |
| 15. | Zheng Wang, Jih-Yu Mao, Ye Zhang, and Shengming Liu. 2022. Leading against gender stereotypes: the positively deviant effect of female leaders’ personal need for structure on average team member performance. Current Psychology 41 7957-7967. |
| 16. | Shengming Liu, Xin Lucy Liu, Hui Wang, and Ying Wang. 2022. Humble leader behavior and its effects on performance at the team and individual level: a multi-perspective study. Group & Organization Management 47(5) 1008-1041. |
| 17. | Yan Zhang and Shengming Liu. 2022. Balancing employees’ extrinsic requirements and intrinsic motivation: A paradoxical leader behaviour perspective. European Management Journal 40(1) 127-136. |
| 18. | Di Cai, Shengming Liu, Jia Liu, Li Yao, and Xingze Jia. 2021. Mentoring and newcomer well-being: a socialization resources perspective. Journal of Managerial Psychology 36(3) 285-298. |
| 19. | Lifan Chen, Shengming Liu, Yue Wang, and Xiaoli Hu. 2021. Humble leader behavior and team creativity: the team learning perspective. Journal of Managerial Psychology 36(3) 272-284. |
| 20. | Chen Chen, Xin Qin,Russell E. Johnson, Mingpeng Huang, Mengyun Yang and Shengming Liu. 2021. Entering an upward spiral: Investigating how and when supervisors' talking about abuse leads to subsequent abusive supervision. Journal of Organizational Behavior 42(3) 407-428. |
| 21. | Yanjun Guan, Shengming Liu, Michael Jie Guo, Mengyu Li, Mengyi Wu, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Sabrina Lingxiao Xu, and Lin Tian. 2018. Acculturation orientations and Chinese student sojourners' career adaptability: The roles of career exploration and cultural distance. Journal of Vocational Behavior 104 228-239. |
| 22. | Yan Bai, Zhilin Dong, Haiyang Liu, and Shengming Liu. 2017. We may be different, but i can help you: the effects of leaders’ political skills on leader–follower power distance value incongruence and withdrawal behavior. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 24(2) 216-229. |
| 23. | Shengming Liu, Ye Zhang, Lifan Chen, Li Guo, and Dongling Yu. 2015. Enterprise WeChat groups: Their effect on work-life conflict and life-work enhancement. Frontier of Business Research in China 9(4) 516-535. |
| 24. | Liping Chen, Minya Xu, and Shengming Liu. 2025. The dual impact of generative AI usage on employee creativity. Management Review 22(2) 326-335. (in Chinese) |
| 25. | Fan Yang, Hongyu Zhang, Xin Liu, and Shengming Liu. 2023. How can a leader seeking no faults make subordinates more proactive. Nankai Business Review 26(3) 189-196. (in Chinese) |
| 26. | Lifan Chen, Shengming Liu, and Xiaoli Hu. 2022. Leader humble behavior and follower proactive behavior: A social identity perspective. Journal of Management Sciences in China 25(2) 104-115. (in Chinese) |
| 27. | Shengming Liu，Lifan Chen, and Simai Wang. 2018. Modesty brings gains: The effect of humble leader behavior on team creativity from a team communication perspective. Acta Psychologica Sinica 50(10) 1159-1168. (in Chinese) |
| 28. | Haiyang Liu，Shengming Liu, Hui Wang, and Minya Xu. 2016. The influence of leader-follower value congruence in power distance on follower’s performance and its mechanism. NanKai Business Review 19(5) 55-65. (in Chinese) |
| 29. | Haoyu Zhang，Hui Wang，Li Guo, and Shengming Liu. 2016. Empowering leadership, organization based self-esteem, and employee performance: The moderating effect of perceived insider status. Ecnomic Science (2) 118-128. (in Chinese) |
Research Projects
2025.05—2026.04, Principal Investigator, 科学家创业过程中的身份转化、风险防范、及管理赋能研究, 上海市2025年度高水平机构建设运行计划“软科学研究”项目
2024.01—2027.12, Principal Investigator, How to Promote the Digital Communication Efficiency of Leader? A Multi-State, Multi-Method Research Based on Social Media, Emoji, and Coordination Platform, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2023.06—2023.12, Principal Investigator, Psychological Cognition and Effect Evaluation of College Students on the Employment Assistance Policy from Government, Shanghai Xuhui District Committee of the Communist Youth League
2022.09—2022.12, Principal Investigator, Employee Performance Assessment and Competence Model Construct, Shandong Jiayuan Jianan Engineering Company
2021.05—2021.12, Principal Investigator, The Application and Practice of Virtual Communities in Business Students Education in A Digital Age, The First Batch of Undergraduate Teaching Research and Reform Projects at Fudan University in 2021
2021.04—2022.03, Member, Research Project on Innovation Ecological Clusters of Major Scientific and Technological Infrastructure, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021.01—2024.12, Member, Bottom Line and Top Line: The Nature of Preventive and Promotive Ethical Leadership and Their Differentiated Impact on Employee Behavior, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2021.01—2023.12, Principal Investigator, Is a Grasp of Mundane Affairs Always a Good Thing？A Research on the Negative Effects of Political Skill and Its Causes from an Intra-Comparison Perspective, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Academic Posts
2024.01—,Editorial Review Board Member,Asia Pacific Journal of Management
2022.01—,Member of Editorial Review Board,Management and Organization Review
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