Creates a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Inspires students to achieve their best.
Encourages innovative and creative solutions.
Always approachable and easy to talk to.
Associate Professor Ying (Candy) Lu serves in the Department of Management at Macquarie University, where she joined in 2014 as an expert in International Management and Employment. She obtained her PhD in Management from Monash University in 2012, earning the Dr Nicholas Beaumont Memorial Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Management. Her research specializations include sustainable human resource management, common good HRM, AI in HRM (AI-HRM), and AI-human collaboration in business and management. Prior research addressed cross-cultural management, diversity management, international human resource management, and occupational health and safety in the mining sector. Lu has published extensively in prestigious journals such as Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management Journal, Management International Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, Human Resource Management Review, and Safety Science. Key publications include the monograph Skilled migration, expectation and reality: Chinese professionals and the global labour market (Routledge), Influence of management practices on safety performance: The case of mining sector in China (Safety Science, 2020), Dark side of algorithmic management on platform worker behaviors: A mixed-method study (2024), Demystifying AI for the workforce: the role of explainable AI in worker acceptance and management relations (Journal of Management Studies, 2025), and Enhancing employee outcomes through common good human resource management: exploring the role of meaningfulness and thriving (2025). She has also contributed five book chapters.
At Macquarie University, Lu has held key academic leadership positions, including Head of the Bachelor of Commerce – International Business major from 2014 to 2020, Course Director of the Master of International Business program since 2021, and specialisation head for the Master of Commerce – International Business specialisation. She is Deputy Director (Asia Pacific) of the Macquarie University Health at Work Research Centre. Her accolades include the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research - Five Future-Shaping Research Priorities (2023, team award), MQBS impact story competition win as project lead, Academy of Management Best Paper Awards (2023 and 2020), British Academy of Management Best Paper Award (2019), and the PhD thesis award. As Section Editor for Stress & Health and Associate Editor for Journal of Business Research, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Chinese Management Studies, she advances the field. Her research impacts encompass employee resilience, mental health in mining, sustainable HRM practices affecting the triple bottom line, and common good values in organizations, influencing policy, society, and environmental outcomes.
