Staff profile

Hong Deng is a professor at Durham University. Hong received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from City University of Hong Kong in 2013. She got her bachelor and master degrees at Peking University, China. She previously worked at London School of Economics, University of Birmingham, and University of Manchester before joining Durham university. Her work focuses on self-regulation at work, organizational justice, person-organization-job fit, and leadership. Hong’s work has been published leading academic journals in the field such as at Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychological, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Mini Biography

Hong Deng is a professor at Durham University Business School. Prior to joining Durham, she worked as a senior lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. She also worked at London School of Economics and University of Birmingham previously.

• Self-regulation at work
• Emotional labor
• Proactive behavior
• Organizational justice
• Person-organization/job fit
• Identify
• Leadership

Chapter in book

• Leung, K., Wang, J., & Deng, H. (2014). Challenges of conducting global research. In R. Griffith, L. Thompson, & B. Armon (Eds.), Internationalizing the curriculum in organizational psychology (283-305). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9402-7_13

Journal Article

• Deng, H., Guan, Y., Bond, M., Zhang, Z., & Hu, T. (online). The interplay between social cynicism beliefs and person-organization fit on work-related attitudes among Chinese employees. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 160-178
• Deng, H., Coyle-Shapiro, J., Zhu, Y., & Wu, C.-H. (2023). Serving the Cause When My Organization Does Not: A Self-affirmation Model of Employees’ Compensatory Responses to Ideological Contract Breach. Personnel Psychology, 76(4), 1161-1186. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12546
• Deng, H., Guan, Y., Zhou, X., Li, Y., Cai, D., Li, N., & Liu, B. (2023). The "double-edged sword" effects of career support mentoring on newcomer turnover: How and when it helps or hurts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(7), 1094-1114. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001143
• Lyu, Y., Wu, C.-H., Kwan, H. K., Lee, C., & Deng, H. (2023). Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X22110085
• Guan, Y., Jiang, D., Wu, C., Deng, H., Su, S., Buchtel, E. E., & Chen, S. X. (2023). Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction. American Psychologist, 79(2), 268–284. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001188
• Zhao, H., Deng, H., Chen, R., Parker, S., & Zhang, W. (2022). Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance. Academy of Management Journal, 65(6), 2014-2033. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1110
• Guan, Y., Deng, H., Fan, L., & Zhou, X. (2021). Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 126, Article 103557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103557
• Deng, H., Lam, C. K., Guan, Y., & Wang, M. (2021). My fault or yours? leaders’ dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self‐construal. Personnel Psychology, 74(4), 773-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12430
• Deng, H., Walter, F., & Guan, Y. (2020). Supervisor-Directed Emotional Labor as Upward Influence: An Emotions-as-Social-Information Perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 41(4), 384-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2424
• Deng, H., Leung, K., Lam, C., & Huang, X. (2019). Slacking Off in Comfort: A Dual-Pathway Model for Psychological Safety Climate. Journal of Management, 45(3), 1114-1144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206317693083
• Deng, H., Guan, Y., Wu, C.-H., Erdogan, B., Bauer, T., & Yao, X. (2018). A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance. Journal of Management, 44(8), 3288-3310. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316668237
• Deng, H., Coyle-Shapiro, J., & Yang, Q. (2018). Beyond Reciprocity: A Conservation of Resources View on the Effects of Psychological Contract Violation on Third Parties. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(5), 561-577. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000272
• Li, F., Deng, H., & Leung, K. (2017). Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals. Human Resource Management, 56(4), 693-709. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21795
• Deng, H., Walter, F., Lam, C., & Zhao, H. (2017). Spillover Effects of Emotional Labor in Customer Service Encounters toward Coworker Harming: A Resource Depletion Perspective. Personnel Psychology, 70(2), 469-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12156
• Deng, H., Wu, C., Leung, K., & Guan, Y. (2016). Depletion from Self-Regulation: A Resource-based Account of the Effect of Value Incongruence. Personnel Psychology, 69(2), 431-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12107
• Chen, S., Lam, B., Wu, W., Ng, J., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., & Deng, H. (2016). Do people’s world views matter? The why and how. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(5), 743-765. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000061
• Leung, K., Deng, H., Wang, J., & Zhou, F. (2015). Beyond risk-taking: Effects of psychological safety on prosocial behavior. Group and Organization Management, 40(1), 88-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114564012
• Deng, H., & Leung, K. (2014). Contingent punishment as a double-edged sword: A dual-pathway model from a sense-making perspective. Personnel Psychology, 67(4), 951-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12074
• Guan, Y., Deng, H., Sun, J., Wang, Y., Cai, Z., Ye, L., Fu, R., Zhang, S., & Li, Y. (2013). Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese University Graduates. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83(3), 561-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2013.09.003
• Guan, Y., Deng, H., Risavy, S., Bond, M., & Li, F. (2011). Supplementary fit, complementary fit and work-related attitudes: The role of self-construal. Applied Psychology, 60(2), 286-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2010.00436.x
• Guan, Y., Deng, H., Bond, M., Chen, S., & Chan, C. (2010). Person-job fit and work-related attitudes among Chinese employees: Need for cognitive closure as moderator. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 251-260
• Guan, Y., Deng, H., & Bond, M. (2010). Examining the stereotype content model in a Chinese context: Intergroup structural relations and Mainland Chinese stereotypes towards Hong Kong Chinese. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34(4), 393-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.04.003