Jing Zhou

Jing Zhou (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Management and Director of Asian Management Research and Education at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. 

Prior to joining Rice, she was Associate Professor and Mays Fellow in the Management Department at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University.

Her research interests focus on factors that promote or stifle employee creativity and innovation, and cross-cultural issues in organizational behavior. Her work has been published in leading journals in management, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology.She currently serves on the editorial boards of 6 leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management. 

She has taught leadership, managing for creativity and innovation, global leadership, negotiation, and organizational behavior at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. levels.  She has received several research and teaching awards for excellence in research and teaching.

She has served in leadership positions in professional associations including Chair of the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Track of Academy of International Business (2002), Associate Program Chair for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2002), and Vice President for International Association of Chinese Management Research (current).

Recently, responding to organizations’ needs for promoting employee creativity in order to survive and prosper in the global competition, Jones Graduate School of Management of Rice University has launched a certificate program on managing for creativity and innovation. This is one of the pioneer programs in business schools worldwide.  Professor Zhou is a key instructor in this program.