Rui Zhong

Rui Zhong, Assistant Professor at the department of Management and Organization, Penn State University. Rui earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business in Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on “negative” workplace phenomena, or phenomena that people generally have a negative connotation with. Those phenomena include gossip, mistreatment, destructive leadership, aversive emotions, and death awareness. He is particularly interested in shedding a “positive” light on those negative phenomena by examining their potential benefits or solutions. His research has been published in top-tier management outlets, including the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. Rui also holds a Bachelor of Management in Construction Management from Tianjin University in Tianjin, China.