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Personal profile
Biography
Herman Tse is a Professor in Leadership and also the former Director of the Early Career Academics (ECA) Network in Monash Business School. He obtained his PhD from University of Queensland. He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and also a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders. His research interests include leadership effectiveness, team development, emotions research, psychological well-being and workplace health and safety.
Herman has authored more than 80 publications in top-tier academic journals, leading conference proceedings, prestigious books and key media outlets. He has received 14 prestigious national and international research awards such as the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management's (ANZAM) Early Career Researcher Award, ANZAM Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, ANZAM Best Paper Awards, Griffith University's Teaching Citation Award, Monash Business School's Research Excellence Award, Monash Business School's Teaching Excellence Award and the US Center for Creative Leadership's Kenneth Clark Leadership Research Award.
Herman's work has appeared in internationally respected books such as Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange, Research Companion to Emotions in Organizations, Research on emotion in organizations: The effect of affect in organizational settings, and also leading journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Personnel Psychology, the Human Resource Management the Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Organisational Behaviour.
Herman has established a strong record of securing competitive research grants - over $400,000 from international funding bodies, government departments, corporations and universities, and of supervising nine doctoral dissertations to completion. His work has been cited by top leadership scholars, industry experts and key media outlets (e.g., ABC Radio Melbourne, 6PR Radio Perth, 2SER Melbourne and 3AW Melbourne) resulting in over 5,000 Google Scholar citations. According to a reputable leadership author ranking published by the Leadership Quarterly, Herman has been ranked as one of the top 20 the World’s Most Productive Leadership Authors between 2011 – 2017 and the first in Australia and Asia. When he served as the ECA director, the ECA funding applications including ARC DECRA, discovery and linkage as well as industry-based research contracts increased significantly, leading to the funded projects of over $8 million.
Despite of his academic research, Herman has been involved in various research-based industry-based projects and corporate training programs in Australia and China. He conducted a project on leadership frameworks and team effectiveness using data collected from major banks and large family-based restaurants. The research findings were used to inform the leadership development for branch managers and team effectiveness. He also undertook projects with the Call Centres and Mobile Sales department of large Chinese telecommunication services companies, investigating the practical implications of leadership effectiveness and employee turnover.
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Media Press: Business Insights
Research interests
My research focuses on two important streams of research, covering the implications of 1) leader-member exchange relationships (LMX) and 2) transformational leadership (TL) for workplace effectiveness. My major contribution to leadership and team research is to develop multilevel leadership frameworks (i.e., individual, dyadic, team and cross levels) that examine the effects of LMX and TL leadership approaches on work attitudes and behaviors using different research design (e.g., experiment, survey, interview) and also research methods (e.g., social relation modelling, experience sampling methodology, event-based approach)
My research has significant impacts in the field of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership, as many organizations increasingly acknowledge the importance of multilevel leadership frameworks for creating productive and innovative workplaces.
I have developed a contingency supervision approach to manage supervisor-student relationships according to the students' personality, ability and attitude. My former students' comments on this approach include: “Herman’s leadership, and knowledge of supervising research students have enabled me to navigate around many problems that were encountered in the course of my thesis". "Herman taught me to think critically and developed my knowledge and skills in conducting high quality research". "His effective responses to my queries and sharp critiques of my thesis have opened my eyes to the process of academic research".
I am currently available to supervise Honors or PhD projects in the areas of leadership effectievness, interpersonal relationships, emotions in teams and multilevel research issues in organisations.
Monash teaching commitment
- MGF 5670 - Leadership
- MGX 3991 - Leadership Principles and Practices
Community service
Herman is committed to promoting community engagement via his ongoing involvement in and services to a few professional and government bodies.
- Associate Editor of Journal of Organisational Behvaior
- Editoral board member of A* and A journals including the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organisational Behavior, Journal of Business Research and Management Organisation Review.
- Chair of the Leadership and Corporate Governance Stream in the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference.
- Assessor of the Australian Research Council evaluating discovery and linkage funding applications.
- Regular reviewer for leading management journals - the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review.
- External examiner of doctoral disserations submitted by students in top Australian universities such as UNSW, ANU etc....
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Transformational Leadership
- Emotions in teams
- Leader-member exchanges
- Health and safety
- interpersonal work relationships
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 6 Finished
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Identifying Workplace Health and Safety Risks Faced by Home-based Care Workers
Tse, H. & Casey, T.
Victorian WorkCover Authority (VWA) (trading as WorkSafe Victoria)
27/04/23 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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Collaborative Robotic Systems and Work Health and Safety
Tse, H., Gu, J. & De Cieri, H.
Victorian WorkCover Authority (VWA) (trading as WorkSafe Victoria)
1/06/22 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
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Examining the effect of value translation and leadership alignment on employee engagements
Mizuno Corporation Australia Pty Ltd
10/12/21 → 10/12/22
Project: Research
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The influence mechanism of human-robot collaboration in intelligent manufacturing on front-line employees' behaviors
Wang, Z., Tse, H., Gu, J., Hu, Q., Tian, Y., Lin , X., Zhao, L., Ruan , W., Chen, Y. & Long , C. C.
26/01/21 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
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Investigating the optimal pathway to upgrade the leadership and management system in Chinese pharmaceutical industry
Huang, X., Li, R., Zhang, W., Tse, H. & Gu, J.
1/07/19 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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A daily diary study on the affective path between leadership practices and leaders’ personal helping
Chan, P. H. H., Tse, H. H. M., Howard, J., Eva, N., To, M. L., Qian, J. & Xia, A., Aug 2023, In: Australian Journal of Management. 48, 3, p. 550-566 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Transformational leadership and older teachers’ intention to delay retirement in China: the roles of organization-based self-esteem and life expectancy
Zhao, L., Wang, Z., Song, H. & Tse, H. H. M., 2023, In: Current Psychology. 42, p. 29589-29602 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A systematic review of at-work recovery and a framework for future research
Chan, P. H. H., Howard, J., Eva, N. & Tse, H. H. M., Sept 2022, In: Journal of Vocational Behavior. 137, 19 p., 103747.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
9 Citations (Scopus) -
Comparisons draw us close: the influence of leader-member exchange dyadic comparison on coworker exchange
Tang, Y., Lam, C. K., Ouyang, K., Huang, X. & Tse, H. H. M., 2022, In: Personnel Psychology. 75, 1, p. 215-240 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
11 Citations (Scopus) -
Employee radical creativity: the roles of supervisor autonomy support and employee intrinsic work goal orientation
Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Gu, J. & Tse, H. M., 2022, In: Innovation: Organization and Management. 24, 2, p. 272-289 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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2022 Australian Business Dean Council Award for Innovation and Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Tse, Herman (Recipient), 11 Nov 2022
Prize: National/international honour
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2022 Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Tse, Herman (Recipient), 30 Nov 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2023 Best Student Paper Award" presented by The Organizational Neuroscience Interest Group (NTU), Academy of Management
Tse, Herman (Recipient), Volk, Stefan (Recipient) & Pan , Yan (Recipient), 4 Aug 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference
Tse, Herman (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021
Xiaoshuang Lin (Speaker), Herman Tse (Speaker) & Jeff Shao (Speaker)
3 Aug 2021 → 6 Aug 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Academy of Management Journal (Journal)
Herman Tse (Peer reviewer)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2019
Nathan Eva (Organiser), Julie Wolfram Cox (Organiser), Herman Tse (Organiser) & Kevin Lowe (Organiser)
9 Aug 2019 → 19 Aug 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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360 Manager Summit: Professional Development & Leadership Essentials for Managers organised by Liquid Learning
Herman Tse (Keynote/plenary speaker)
19 Jan 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Journal of Organizational Behavior (Journal)
Herman Tse (Associate editor)
Jan 2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
Press/Media
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Volunteering is declining. How can we reverse the trend?
11/08/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Biggest mistakes bosses are making with Gen Z
28/04/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The Concept of Collective Leadership and How it Could Lead us Out of a Pandemic
Nathan Eva, Julie Wolfram Cox, Herman Tse & Kevin B Lowe
2/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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The daily grind led to a four-day week and a new approach to work-life balance
20/09/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Working from home: The 12 new rules for getting it right
1/09/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature