Rate My Professor Andrew Yu

Andrew Yu is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management and the co-Director of the PhD Program in the Department of Management & Marketing within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. In his role, he teaches graduate-level courses in managerial psychology, leadership and team dynamics, organisational behaviour, and human resource management.

Yu's research investigates the psychology of workplace interactions to inform leaders on creating effective, collaborative, and sustainable organisations. His specializations include diversity and inclusion, employee well-being, leadership and team dynamics, human resource management, social hierarchy at work, interpersonal relationships, work/non-work boundaries, gender biases, group and team dynamics, job performance, and work-family issues. He employs diverse methodologies such as quantitative experiments, field surveys, secondary data analyses, wearable sensor data, and qualitative approaches including live observations and focus groups. Funded research encompasses projects for the Australian Defence Force on decision-making in military crews, the United States National Science Foundation on collaboration networks and knowledge exchange, and the Office of Naval Research on gender integration in traditionally male-dominated teams. Yu serves on editorial boards of premier journals in management, applied psychology, and human resource management, as ranked by the Financial Times Top 50 and Australian Business Deans Council. He has received awards for research and teaching excellence in Australia and the United States.

Key publications include "Is leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation beneficial or detrimental for group effectiveness? A meta-analytic investigation and theoretical integration" (Academy of Management Journal, 2018), "Token female voice enactment in traditionally male-dominated teams: Facilitating conditions and consequences for performance" (Academy of Management Journal, 2020), "Family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) and work-family conflict: The role of stereotype content, supervisor gender, and gender role beliefs" (Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2022), and "The promise and perils of wearable sensors in organizational research" (Organizational Research Methods, 2017).