Recently, Associate Professor Li Ran and Associate Professor Zhixing Xu from the Department of Human Resource Management, BNUBS, have successively published papers in top international management journals.

Associate Professor Li Ran , as the corresponding author, collaborated with Xiji Zhu from Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Feng Jiang from the University of Leicester (UK), Sabrina D. Volpone from the University of Colorado Boulder (USA), and David C. Baldridge from Oregon State University (USA) to publish a paper titled The Role of Inclusive Leadership in Reducing Disability Accommodation Request Withholding in the internationally authoritative journal Journal of Management (included in FT 50, rated ABS 4*). Focusing on the key issue of workplace disability inclusion— “eliminating the withholding of accommodation requests”—the paper, based on the relational perspective and social tuning theory, clarifies that inclusive leadership effectively reduces employees' subjective perception of disability stigma by creating an open, accessible, and approachable interactive atmosphere, thereby enhancing their willingness to make reasonable accommodation requests. Meanwhile, it points out that the severity of disability and relationship-interdependent self-construal serve as important boundary conditions; specifically, the positive effect of inclusive leadership is more significant among employee groups with higher accommodation needs and stronger relationship orientation. This study organically connects leadership behavior with disability accommodation, a topic traditionally dominated by systems and processes, opens the “black box” of the psychological mechanism underlying “how leaders influence employees' accommodation decisions,” and enriches the global research landscape of inclusive management with evidence from the Chinese context.

Associate Professor Zhixing Xu, as a co-corresponding author, collaborated with Peixu He from Huaqiao University, Hanhui Zhou from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Qiongyao Zhou from Shanghai University, and Xiayi Liu from Huaqiao University to publish an empirical paper titled From Harmful Acts to Helping Hands: When and How Employee Deceptive Knowledge Hiding Promotes Workplace Helping Behavior in the top international management journal Journal of Organizational Behavior (rated ABS 4). Focusing on the “consequence of moral compensation behavior” in the era of knowledge management—i.e., employees will engage in subsequent helping behavior to make amends after having previously engaged in deceptive knowledge hiding behavior—the paper, based on the moral cleansing theory, proposes and verifies a parallel-mediation model that encompasses two psychological processes: emotion (self-conscious moral emotion) and cognition (moral self-regulation). By revealing the moral compensation process triggered after deceptive knowledge hiding, this study enriches the literature on knowledge management and provides insights for organizations on how to manage behaviors “after mistakes are made.”

Both studies are rooted in the local context while engaging in global dialogue. Associate Professor Li Ran , from an interdisciplinary perspective, reveals how the design of an inclusive workplace can unlock the potential of talents with disabilities, directly echoing the School's mission of “Contributing to National Prosperity and People's Well-being, Promoting Business Ethics and Cultural Heritage,” and demonstrating the values of “Inclusiveness” and “Diversity.” Associate Professor Zhixing Xu focuses on the moral repair mechanism of employees after knowledge hiding in the digital context, providing innovative solutions for organizational governance and embodying the spirits of “Entrepreneurship” and “Accountability.” From humanistic care to global dialogue, the achievements of the two professors collectively interpret the School's vision of “becoming a world-class school of economics and management with humanistic heritage and international influence,” and also contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global management practice.

Zhu, X., Jiang, F., Volpone, S. D., Baldridge, D. C., & Li, R. (2025). The Role of Inclusive Leadership in Reducing Disability Accommodation Request Withholding.Journal of Management, 01492063251314453.

He, P., Zhou, H., Zhou, Q., Liu, X., & Xu, Z. (2025). From Harmful Acts to Helping Hands: When and How Employee Deceptive Knowledge Hiding Promotes Workplace Helping Behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior.https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70012

Contributed by Department of Human Resource Management

Edited by Zhixing Xu

Reviewed by Hao Wei