Rate My Professor Ruolian Fang

Her research addresses the dynamic interplay between individuals and social networks as determinants of employee work experiences and performance outcomes, with interests in social networks, social capital, newcomer socialization, entrepreneurship, workplace interpersonal aggression, organizational justice, and human resource management practices. Key publications include 'Understanding Why and When Coworkers Undermine Employees Who Have Friends in High Places' (Academy of Management Journal, 2026), 'Coevolution of Newcomer Network Structures and Supervisor Support and Undermining: A Latent Change Score Approach' (Journal of Management, 2025), 'Gender and Social Network Brokerage: A Meta-Analysis and Field Investigation' (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021), 'Down but not out: Newcomers can compensate for low vertical access with strong horizontal ties and favorable core self-evaluations' (Personnel Psychology, 2017), 'Integrating Personality and Social Networks: A Meta-Analysis of Personality–Social Network Relations' (Organization Science, 2015), and 'The Organizational Socialization Process: Review and Development of a Social Capital Model' (Journal of Management, 2011). Fang serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal (since August 2016) and Personnel Psychology (since January 2020). She teaches courses such as MGMT1135 Organisational Behaviour, MGMT5508 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership, and MGMT4401 Seminar in Management and HRM at UWA.