Zhaodong Qiu (Alan)

Zhaodong Qiu (Alan) is an Assistant Professor in the People and Organisations department at NEOMA Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from Tsinghua University and was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. His research examines the interplay between individual agency and organizational systems, focusing on workplace proactivity and workday design through quantitative methodologies.

His educational background:

• Ph.D. in Management, Tsinghua University

Dr. Qiu's core research areas include:

• Proactivity
• Workday Design
• Voice Behavior
• Interpersonal Interaction and Dynamics

He utilizes experience sampling, field experiments, and longitudinal surveys to investigate how workday structuring impacts energy and performance.

Recent publications in Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Harvard Business Review reveal how meeting schedules and task sequencing affect knowledge workers' well-being. His findings demonstrate that strategic workday design significantly influences energy conservation and productivity outcomes.

Conference engagements:

• 11th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (2025)
• AOM 2023 Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium
• 25th Annual "Cognition in the Rough" Workshop (AOM 2022)