Rate My Professor Gang Wang

Gang Wang is the Department Chair and Madeline Duncan Rolland Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Management at Florida State University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Business. He also serves as the doctoral program director for Organizational Behavior and Human Resources. Wang received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the University of Iowa in 2011, a DESS-CAAE (M.B.A. equivalent) from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2003, and a B.S. in Textile Engineering from Qingdao University in 1997. His professional career began as an Assistant Professor of Management and Human Resources at the University of Idaho from 2011 to 2013, followed by his appointment at Florida State University as Assistant Professor in 2013, promotion to Associate Professor in 2019, and elevation to his current endowed professorship and chairmanship.

Specializing in organizational behavior and human resources management, Gang Wang’s research examines the role of leadership in elevating individual, team, and organizational effectiveness, with emphasis on leader behavior, emotional displays, and human capital’s influence on follower motivation, performance, team dynamics, and firm financial outcomes. His prolific scholarship features meta-analytic reviews published in top-tier journals, including “Transformational leadership and performance across criteria and levels: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of research” (Wang, Oh, Courtright, & Colbert, 2011, Group & Organization Management), “Validity of observer ratings of the Five-Factor Model of personality traits: A meta-analysis” (Oh, Wang, & Mount, 2011, Journal of Applied Psychology)—which received attention in the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic—“Do CEOs matter to firm strategic actions and firm performance? A meta-analytic investigation based on upper echelons theory” (Wang, Holmes, Oh, & Zhu, 2016, Personnel Psychology), and “The Impact of leader emotion display frequency on follower performance: Leader surface acting and mean emotion display as boundary conditions” (Wang & Seibert, 2015, The Leadership Quarterly). Wang has garnered significant recognition, including the SIOP 2013 Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance, SIOP 2018 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, Florida State University College of Business Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (2018) and Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award (2020), Best Paper Awards at the Academy of Management Annual Conference (2009 and 2013), and selection as a 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar for a leadership study project in Finland.