Professional Faculty
Management of Organizations
Expert in creating and sustaining engagement
Expertise and Research Interests
- Social support in the workplace
- Organizational Culture
“A multilevel investigation of motivational cultural intelligence, organizational diversity climate, and cultural sales: Evidence from US real estate firms,”
XP Chen, D Liu, R Portnoy – Journal of applied psychology, 2012
“To whom do positive norm and negative norm of reciprocity apply? Effects of inequitable offer, relationship, and relational-self orientation,”
YR Chen, XP Chen, R Portnoy – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009 – Elsevier
Overcoming the self-promotion dilemma: Interpersonal attraction and extra help as a consequence of who sings one’s praises …, CT Fong, RB Cialdini, RR Portnoy – Personality and Social …, 2006 – journals.sagepub.com
At Haas since 2018
- 2018 – present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
- 2015 – present, Visiting Assistant Professor, Lorry I. Lokey School of Business and Public Policy – Mills College
- 2007 to 2013 – Assistant Professor, Washington State University
- 2002 to 2007 – Teaching Assistant, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Management/Organizational Development Consulting
CEO, Makanai LLC
Secretary, Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division, Academy of Management, 2011-2014
Reviewer, Academy of Management Conference
Reviewer, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Reviewer for Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Reviewer for Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Member, Academy of Management Membership Committee, 2011-2013
Session Chair, OB Division at Academy of Management Conference, 2011
Session Chair, GDO Division at Academy of Management Conference, 2008
Session Chair, HR Division at Academy of Management Conference, 2008
Facilitator, Interactive Paper Session at Academy of Management Conference, 2008
Spanish
Featured Top Poster at Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, 2009
Best Paper Award at International Association of Chinese Management Research, 2008
Global Business Center Fellowship, 2005
Bertauche Transportation Endowment Award, 2005
The New Power Lunch: Strategies for Brown-Bagging at Your Desk, With Executive Image Intact, Wall Street Journal April 6, 2011
Is lunch hour outdated?, The Miami Herald June 3, 2011
Leading People, EWMBA 205