Carrie Zhang

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2017-2022

M.S., Renmin University of China, 2014-2017

B.S., Wuhan University, 2010-2014

Management

Positive leadership behaviors (e.g., leader humility, ethical leadership, empowering leadership, leader vision communication); Subjective well-being (e.g., job satisfaction, family satisfaction), gig workers

 Journal Publications

Wang, Y., Wang, X., Guo, Z., Zhang, S., & Johnson, R. (2025). To be Participative or Laissez-Faire? Supervisors’ Coping Strategies to Ego Depletion Depend on their Power Distance Orientation. Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115325

Zhang, Z., Liu, G., Pei, J., Zhang, S., & Liu, J. Perceived algorithmic evaluation and app-workers’ service performance: The roles of flow experience and challenges of gig work (in press). Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

Hu, J., Zhang, S., Lount, Jr., R. B., & Tepper, B. J. (2024). When leaders heed the lessons of mistakes: Linking leaders’ recall of learning from mistakes to expressed humility. Personnel Psychology, 77, 683–712.
 

Zhang, S., Hu, J., Chuang, C. H., & Chiao, Y. C. (2022). Prototypical leaders reinforce efficacy beliefs: How and when leader–leader exchange relates to team effectiveness. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(6), 1136-1151.

Venus, M., Johnson, R. E., Zhang, S., Wang, X. H., & Lanaj, K. (2019). Seeing the big picture: A within-person examination of leader construal level and vision communication. Journal of Management, 45(7), 2666-2684. 

Zhang, S., Ke, X., Frank Wang, X. H., & Liu, J. (2018). Empowering leadership and employee creativity: A dual‐mechanism perspective. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 91(4), 896-917. 

Zhang, S., & Tu, Y. (2018). Cross-domain effects of ethical leadership on employee family and life satisfaction: The moderating role of family-supportive supervisor behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 152(4), 1085-1097.

Tu, Y., & Zhang, S. (2015). Loneliness and subjective well-being among Chinese undergraduates: The mediating role of self-efficacy. Social Indicators Research, 124(3), 963-98.

BOOK CHAPTERS

•Judge, T., Zhang, S. & Glerum, D. (2021). Job satisfaction. In Sessa, V. and Bowling, N. (Eds) Essentials of Job Attitudes and Other Workplace Psychological Constructs. Routledge.

• 2024-2025 Fraser Fellowship ($7,500)
• •2024-2025 MISB summer grant ($6,000)
• 2023-2024 Fraser Fellowship ($5,000)
• Grant Winner of Kwok Leung Memorial Dissertation Fund, International Association for Chinese Management Research, 2021 ($1,500)
• Greenleaf Scholarship Award, 2021($2,500)
• Fisher Small Research Grant, The Ohio State University, 2021 ($1,000)

 • Zhang, Z., Zhang, S., Liu, G., & Pei, J. (August 2024). A Daily Diary Study of Perceived Algorithmic Control and Delivery Riders’ Multitasking Performance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.

• *Buchanan, C., Zhang, S., & Tekleab, A. (August 2024). When Vision Communication Goes Wrong: An Ideological Contract Perspective of Work Meaningfulness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA. * student coauthor

• Zhang, S., Fan, X., Tu, Y., Liu, G., & Zhang, Z. (August 2024). A Motivated Information Processing Perspective on Team Leaders’ Responses to Employee UPB. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.

• Hu, J., Zhu, D., Zhang, S., Yuan, Y., & Choi, W. (August 2024) [CEO humility and female representation in top management teams]. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.

• Zhang, S. & Hu, J. (August 2022). When and how follower unethical behaviors lead to servant leadership: A social identity analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA.

• Hu, J., Zhang, S., Lount, R., & Tepper, B. (April 2022). When learning from mistakes promotes leader humility: Implications for team functioning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, USA.

• Zhang, S. & Hu, J. (March 2022) When and how follower unethical behaviors lead to ethical leadership: A social identity analysis. Paper presented at Women's leadership symposium, Columbus, USA.

• Zhang, S., Hu, J., & Chuang, J. (April 2021). Prototypical leaders reinforce efficacy beliefs: How and when leader-leader exchange relates to team performance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Virtual.

• Klein, H., Choi, W., Zhang, S., & Schreiber, L. (July 2020). Consequences of leader commitments on follower commitments, attitudes and behaviors. Paper presented at Fisher Leadership Initiative Conference, Columbus, USA.

• Zhang, S. & Hu, J. (August 2019). A fit perspective of leadership emergence. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA.

• Wang, Y., Wang, X., & Zhang, S. (August 2018) Opportunities for subordinates to participate: The bright side of supervisor’s depletion. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.

• Zhang, S., Ke, X., & Wang, X. (August 2015). Empowering leadership and creativity: The influence of access to resources/information, and OBSE. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada.