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leadership, emotions in teams, multilevel research, leader-member exchange and interpersonal work relationships

20052025

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Personal profile

Biography

Herman Tse is a Leadership and the former Director of the Early Career Academics (ECA) Network at Monash Business School. I earned my PhD from the University of Queensland and hold fellowships with several prestigious bodies, including the Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, and Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), and the US Center for Evidence-based Management. My research interests encompass multilevel approaches to leadership effectiveness, emotions in work relationships, and employee well-being.

I have co-authored over 80 publications in top-tier academic journals, leading conference proceedings, books, and professional reports. This work has been recognised with 14 prestigious national and international research awards, including the ANZAM Early Career Researcher Award, the ANZAM Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, multiple ANZAM Best Paper Awards, Monash Business School's Research and Teaching Excellence Awards, and the Center for Creative Leadership's Kenneth Clark Leadership Research Award.

My research has been featured in internationally respected books, such as the Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange, as well as in leading journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Organisational Behaviour.

I have a proven track record of securing over AU$700,000 in competitive research grants from international funding bodies, governments, and corporations. I have successfully supervised 10 doctoral candidates to completion. My work is regularly cited by leading scholars, industry experts, and media outlets such as ABC, Forbes, The Financial Times and SBS. I was ranked among the world's top 20 most productive leadership authors globally in a Leadership Quarterly review article.

During my tenure as ECA Director, I helped drive a significant increase in funding applications including ARC DECRA, Discovery, and Linkage grants, as well as industry-based research contracts, contributing to over AU$8 million in funded projects.

Beyond academia, I have led impactful industry projects and corporate training programs on leadership effectiveness. I have also collaborated with government bodies and organisations to develop evidence-based frameworks and practical guidelines for human-robot collaborative workplaces and AI-driven digital transformation initiatives.

Research interests

My research encompasses three critical areas with both theoretical and practical implications: 1) leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships, 2) multilevel leadership frameworks, and 3) human-robot collaboration for enhancing workplace effectiveness. I am dedicated to advancing these fields by developing evidence-based and cutting-edge frameworks  through diverse innovative research designs and techniques.

My work significantly impacts the fields of leadership effectiveness, future of work and interpersonal work relationships. As organizations increasingly recognize the importance of fostering agile, sustainable, inclusive, and innovative workplaces, my research provides valuable insights and practical solutions to meet these evolving needs.

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 
  • Advisory Council Member of Havard Business Review
  • Editoral board member of A* and A journals including the Leadership Quarterly, 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):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

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

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