Biography
Shea Fan is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Deakin Business School, Melbourne, Australia. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Melbourne. Her previous academic positions include roles at Nottingham University Ningbo China and RMIT University.
Shea investigates how global mobility and cultural or ethnic diversity affect employees, their interactions with others, and how organizations and managers can help employees thrive and achieve their potential in contemporary work environments. Her research covers areas of international business, human resource management and Business Education. In particular, she has research expertise in a number of topics, including cross-cultural management, multinational corporation management, migrants, workplace loneliness, work extremity, implicit bias, social identity, bicultural identity and IT identity.
Shea’s research has appeared in top-tier international management journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Human Resource Management and has been featured in media outlets, such as the Conversation, Human Resource Director, HR Daily, Business News Australia and ABC radio.
She was the chief primary investigator of competitive grants sponsored by Australia Department of Foreign Affairs, investigating sister cities and international collaboration of local governments. She also received philanthropic grants from Telematics researching the work rights of international students.
Read more on Shea's profileResearch interests
International HRM; international managment; cross-cultural management
Globally mobile employees (e.g. corporate expatriates, migrants, returnees, refugees, international volunteers or international students), local government international collaboration (e.g. sister cities)
Workplace loneliness, implicit bias, work extremity, identity-related mechanism (e.g. identity confirmation, soical identity, bicultural identity or IT identity)
Units taught
MMH352 International Human Resource Management
MPM722 Human Resource Management
Professional activities
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7791-7229
Media appearances
2023 Workplace loneliness is the modern pandemic damaging lives and hurting businesses, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2023.
2020 After 40 years of Australian-Chinese sister cities, how are they faring? The Conversation.
2020 Commentary: Hello COVID-19 remote working, goodbye cult of presenteeism. Channel News Asia.
2019 What’s behind burnout? Confusing long hours and face time for work performance, Channel News Asia.
2013 Understanding identity is the key to succeeding in China. The Conversation.
2013 Employing expatriate Chinese in China-culture is one thing, identity another. Australia China Quarterly.
2012 Identity challenge in China, The Voice. Melbourne University.
Research groups
CREATE member
Awards
2023 College of Business and Law Learning and Teaching Award, RMIT
2022 Dean’s Learning & Teaching Excellence Award, RMIT
2021 Finalists of the International HRM Scholarly Research Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management
2021 Top 20 reading list on Migration and Diversity in International Business of the Women in Academy of International Business
2019 School of Management Early Career Research Excellence Award, RMIT