Faculty and Staff

Prior to joining UNCG, Aichia Chuang was the Fu-Bon Endowed Chair in Management and Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. She served as visiting scholar at Stanford University and Kyoto University in Japan. Chuang’s research interests include leadership, inclusion (person-environment fit and diversity), cross-cultural management, service climate and service performance, creativity, and multilevel theories and methods. Her research has appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Harvard Business Review.

Chuang has won several teaching and research awards. In relation to teaching, she has received the Herbie Award of Teaching Excellence from the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesota and the Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Management at the National Taiwan University. Regarding research, Chuang’s work has won the Center for Creative Leadership Award (best paper published at the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology) and the Academy of Management’s Dorothy Harlow Distinguished Paper Award. She is a recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Research Award and the Ta-You Wu Memorial Research Award (early career achievement award) both from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan.

Chuang is currently an Associate Editor of Human Relations (Financial Times 50) and HR Ambassador of the HR Division of the Academy of Management representing Taiwan. She has served as the Representative-at-Large: Asia Pacific 2016-2018 for the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR), the Chair of the Best Student Conference Paper for the HR Division of AOM (2008 and 2009), and the co-chairperson for the Management I Discipline in the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2017). Chuang is on the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management Review, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. She has consulted with several major multinational companies in the industries of information technology, service and biotechnology in Taiwan and the US.