(Eugena) Yu-Chen Wei
Professor, Department of Educational Management
National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Office: #636 , 6F of Dusing Building
134, Sec 2, Heping E. Rd., Daan Distract, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
Telephone: +886 227321104 ext. 55636
E-mail: wei@tea.ntue.edu.tw
In 2005, Professor Yu-Chen Wei completed the oral examination for her dissertation at the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan. She then enrolled for a one-year visiting program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2006, shortly after returning to Taiwan and receiving a Ph.D degree in business administration, Professor Wei accepted a job offer from Ming Chuan University (MCU) in Taipei. The following year, she was invited to teach at the National Changhua University of Education (NCUE). In 2009, she began working at the National Taipei University of Education (NTUE).
During her Ph.D. program, Professor Wei studied human resources management and organizational behavior (HR/OB) and participated in a large-scale research project based on the theme of human capital. Her dissertation was titled “The growth and decline of enterprises: Human capital and social capital perspectives.” After receiving her doctorate, Professor Wei continued her research on micro and macro-level human capital. She received research project funding from the National Science and Technology Council every year. Her research topics in recent years include (i) how to retain talents from the perspective of time and organizational resources, (ii) the relationship between citizenship behavior and workplace deviant behavior from the perspective of human capital, and (iii) the relationship between human capital, compulsory citizenship behavior, and negative behavior. Professor Wei has published papers in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Personnel Review, Chinese Management Studies, Journal of Management and Organization, and Asia Pacific Journal of Education. She won the Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in 2009. She also won the Chinese Management Studies Award for Best Paper of the Year in 2014.
Professor Wei is passionate about teaching and keeps introducing innovative features into the curriculum. She has won 10 teaching-related awards in her 16 years with the teaching profession. She has designed at least 70 classroom activities pertaining to Organizational Behavior. These game-like activities make it easier for students to learn relevant theories. Her textbook "Human Resource Management (in Chinese)", written from a psychological perspective, have also been popular among users, and this success has prompted a quick release of the new versions of the books. Her Career Management course was quite a success. Not only did it attract many students who wanted to take the course but it was also widely covered in newspapers and television news for its original teaching approach. Numerous universities have invited her to share her experience in teaching career courses. At the end of 2020, she collaborated with 104 Corporation, Taiwan’s renowned human resources company, for providing practical and integrated courses to undergraduate students by engaging with corporate experts. The opportunities to interact with corporate managers and discuss real company cases enhanced students’ understanding of the work environment and potential jobs and increased their employability and career self-efficacy.
Years of experience as a university mentor and expertise in human resources management put Professor Wei in an advantageous position to deliver the Career Management course. In addition, she sought and received training in career coaching and obtained a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) license in 2015, after which she assisted about 50 individuals per year through career counseling. Leveraging her insights into university students’ career planning issues, she designed an extensive career board game in 2011 and made it publicly available in 2022. Before its official release, the game had been played by more than 2,500 people and it had received positive feedbacks from students. Such initiatives can inspire students to think about how to allocate their time efficiently and plan their careers.
In addition to research, teaching, and mentoring, Professor Wei is often invited to various institutions and firms for providing their staffs education and training programs. She once served as a consultant to a large firm and assisted it with an organizational restructuring project, with a focus on the overhaul of the human resources system.
Ph.D. Business Administration (Major: HR/OB; Minor: Strategy)
National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 2006
Associate Professor,
Department of Educational Management, National Taipei University of Education, 2015-2020
Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Management, National Taipei University of Education, 2009-2015
Graduate Institute of Human Resource Management, National Changhua University of Education, 2007-2009
Department of Business Administration, Ming-Chuan University, 2006-2007
Visiting Scholar. Institute of Labor and Industrial Relation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2005-2006
Part-time Lecturer,
National Chengchi University,
Organizational Behavior
Human Resource Management
Career Management
Business Ethics
Management
Journal Papers
Wei, Y. C. (Accepted). Helping others makes you happier? The roles of job involvement and citizenship behavior in predicting well-being. Journal of Personnel Psychology,
Wei, Y. C. (2023). What makes talents stay? Perceived organizational support and future time perspective, Chinese Management Studies, 17(4), 739-754.
Wei, Y. C. (2023). Dr. Kids Creativity Education—Choice of Business Model for Digitizing Educational Products. Management Review, 42(2), 23-43. (In Chinese)
Wei, Y. C. (2022). Effects of career course assignment design on undergraduates’ career self-efficacy and exploration. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2022.2074372
Wei, Y. C. (2022). Are satisfied employees less inclined to quit? Moderating effects of human capital and abusive supervision. Evidence-based HRM: a global forum for empirical scholarship, 10(4), 439-456.
Wei, Y. C & Tsao, C. W. (2019). Family influences in the internationalization of the Top 1000 Taiwanese enterprises: Enduring relationships with stakeholders do count. Chinese Management Studies, 13(1), 128-145.
Wei, Y. C. (2018). The department chair’s troubles: Leadership role of middle managers. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 21(4), 100-111.
Wei, Y. C., Chang, C. C., Lin, L. Y. & Liang, S. C. (2016). A fit-perspective approach to link corporate image and intention to apply. Journal of Business Research, 69(6), 2220-2225.
Wei, Y. C. & Lin, Y. Y. (2015). Intangible assets and decline: A population ecology perspective. Journal of Management and Organization, 21(6), 755-771.
Wei, Y. C. (2015). Do employees high in general human capital tend to have higher turnover intention? The moderating role of high-performance HR practices and P-O fit. Personnel Review, 44(5), 739-756.
Wei, Y. C. & Lin, Y. Y. (2015). How can corporate social responsibility lead to firm performance? A longitudinal study in Taiwan. Corporate Reputation Review, 18(2), 111-127.
Wei, Y. C., Egri, C. & Lin, Y. Y. (2014). Do corporate social responsibility practices yield different business benefits in Eastern and Western contexts? Chinese Management Studies, 8(4), 556-576.
Wei, Y. C. (2013). Person-organization fit and organizational citizenship behavior: Time perspective. Journal of Management and Organization, 19(1), 101-114.
Wei, Y. C., Han, T. S. & Hsu, I. C. (2010). High-performance HR practices and OCB: A cross-level investigation of a causal path. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(10), 1631-1648.
Lin, Y. Y. and Wei, Y. C. (2006). The role of business ethics in merger and acquisition success: An empirical study, Journal of Business Ethics, 69(1), 95-109.
Lin, Y. Y. and Wei, Y. C. (2005). An Eastern and SME version of expatriate Management: An Empirical Study of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(8), 1431-1453.