Joe Jiang

Zhou Jiang (Google Scholar Citations > 5200, H-index = 39) is a Full Professor of Management at College of Business and Law, RMIT University, Australia. He served as the Head of Department (Business Administration) from early 2022 to late 2025, with overall responsibility for the Department’s strategic leadership and operations in teaching, research, and academic development.

Prior to joining RMIT University, he was an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at Flinders University, where he served as Head of Research Section (equivalent to Associate Dean Research), overseeing research across the Flinders Business School, and as a Discipline Leader (Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services). Before that, he was a Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Deakin University where he also occupied the positions of Director of MBA (International), Director of Executive MBA (International), and Deputy Director of China Business and Economics Research Center. He also worked as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor and sat on the steering committee of Center for Work, Organization and Wellbeing in Griffith University and a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management at Central Queensland University.

Professor Zhou (Joe) Jiang is currently an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management (US) (2023 – ; ABDC ranking – A*; a Financial Times 50 Journal), Applied Psychology: An International Review (ABDC ranking – A), and The International Journal of Human Resource Management (ABDC ranking – A). He also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior (A*), Journal of Vocational Behavior (A*), Human Resource Management Journal (A), and Australian Journal of Management (A). He co-chaired the Organizational Behavior Stream (2017-2023) at Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) and was on the ANZAM Board of Directors (2020-2021) as the Research Committee Chair.

He has served as a lead or co-editor for journal special issues, including “Enabling a Thriving Workforce: Human Resource Management Perspectives” (Human Resource Management), “The Effects of Childhood Experiences in Adulthood: Implications for Business Activity and Research” (Journal of Business Research),  “Vocational Experiences and Quality of Life of Migrants” (Social Indicators Research), and “Thrive in Future of Work through Knowledge Management” (Knowledge Management Research & Practice).

Professor Joe Jiang is a researcher ranked in the Top 2% of scientists globally by the Stanford University (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, & 2025). He was a recipient of the ANZAM Early Career Researcher Award (2016), which is to foster and recognize the research and scholarly achievements of emerging researchers who are at an early stage in an academic career. He also received Best Paper Awards from the US Southern Management Association (Careers/Social Issues/Diversity Issues/Ethics Track) (2022) and the ANZAM Gender, Diversity, and Indigeneity Stream (2015) for a paper focussed on LGB individuals' work-related wellbeing.

In 2024, he received RMIT University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (Mid-Career Researcher) which recognized outstanding research excellence, international standing, and a significant contribution to advancing knowledge. This award represents one of the highest research honours within the University.

He received his PhD (October 2014) from Macquarie University where he spent 2 years and 9 months completing a thesis concerning fairness management and employee attitudes in a cross cultural context. Prior to moving to Australia, he completed an MBA in human resource management and organizational studies in South Korea and a bachelor of boiengineering in China.

In addition to serving as an editorial review board member for multiple journals, he is also a regular ad hoc reviewer for other journals such as Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Personality and Individual Differences, International Journal of Manpower, Social Indicators Research, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Career Development International, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, Journal of Management & Organization, Australian Journal of Career Development, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, and ​Journal of Happiness Studies. His work has also been featured in Harvard Business Review, and cited in media such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Brisbane Times.

Professor Joe Jiang has supervised 11 PhD students, six of whom have successfully completed their degrees. These PhD graduates are currently, or have previously been, employed at a range of higher education institutions, including Griffith University, Flinders University, Central Queensland University, the University of Tasmania, King Abdulaziz University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kaplan Business School, among others. Their career trajectories span research-focused, teaching-focused, and combined teaching-and-research academic pathways. He teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The courses he has taught include leadership and governance, human resource management, employment relations, organizational behavior, performance management, reward management, strategic staffing (recruitment and selection), knowledge management, and business research methods (PhD-level).