- Prof. LAM Chak Fu
- 林澤富教授
- Professor
Contacts
Address
10-247, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Phone
+852 34427954
Fax
+852 34420309
Email
chakfu.lam@cityu.edu.hk
Personal Web
Research Areas
Leader responses to employees' creativity
Employee participation and effectiveness
Stress, burnout, and wellbeing
Academic Qualifications
- PhD - Management (University of Michigan)
- BA - Psychology / Economics (Middlebury College)
- International Baccalaureate (Li Po Chun United World College)
Biography
Chak Fu Lam is a Professor of Management at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research focuses on voice behavior, with a particular focus on why employees may express ideas and how it matters in organization.
Faculty Positions
Period Department - Institution Position 7/2024 - Now Management - City University of Hong Kong Professor 7/2019 - 6/2024 Management - City University of Hong Kong Associate Professor 7/2017 - 6/2019 Management - City University of Hong Kong Assistant Professor 8/2013 - 6/2017 Management - Suffolk University Assistant Professor
Awards
Award Title Institution College of Business Excellent PhD Supervisor Award City University of Hong Kong(College of Business) 40-Under-40 MBA Professor Poets&Quants Assurance of Learning Award City University of Hong Kong(College of Business) Reviewer Award Journal of Applied Psychology First Year Lecture Teaching Award City University of Hong Kong(College of Business) HHA Services Scholarship HHA Services Suffolk University Leadership Life Changer Award Suffolk University Spivy Hall Fellowship University of Michigan Outstanding Reviewer Award Academy of Management (OB) Logan Family Scholarship Middlebury College Davis Scholarship Middlebury College United World College Scholarship Li Po Chun United World College Secondary Scholarship Singapore Ministry of Education
Teaching Areas
- Leadership
- Organizational Behavior
- Cross-Cultural Management
- Negotiations
- Organizational Change Management
Research Grants
- PI: "What Predicts Successful Voice-Initiated Changes? Voice Endorsement, Voice Implementation, and the Role of Social Capital", APRC - City University of Hong Kong, (2025), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Overcoming cultural status disadvantage in multicultural teams: The role of leader global identity", Hong Kong General Research Fund, (2023), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Challenging the status quo in a non-challenging way: A dominance complementarity view of voice inquiry", Hong Kong General Research Fund, (2022), Lam, C. F.
- co-PI: "Study of the Contingent Effects of Entrepreneurial Team Energy and Resilience on Entrepreneurial Persistence under Uncertainty", Chinese National Science Foundation, (2021), Lam, C. F.
- PI: ""I'm not good enough": A self-verification Perspective on Why and When Employees may Provoke Abusive Supervision", Strategic Research Grant, (2021), Lam, C. F.
- co-PI: "I like my boss’s boss but not my boss: The effect of skip-level participative leadership on performance and the role of exchanges with different leaders", Hong Kong General Research Fund, (2020), Lam, C. K., & Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Voice Habit: Dimensions, Measurement, and Validation", Strategic Research Grant, (2019), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Voice Habit: Dimensions, Measurement, and Validation", CityU Start-up grant, (2017), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "How employees voice", Doctoral Research Grant, (2012), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Customer Service Voice", Doctoral Research Grant, (2008), Lam, C. F.
- PI: "Autonomy Orientation", Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grant, (2006), Lam, C. F., & Gurland, S.
Administrative Assignments
Period Name Position 8/2024 - Now Master of Business Administration (MBA) Director 12/2018 - Now Ph.D. Recruiting Committee Member 9/2018 - Now Department Selection Committee Member 9/2018 - Now College Board Member 1/2024 - 7/2024 Master of Business Administration (MBA) Associate Director 5/2020 - 12/2023 Master of Arts Global Business Management (MAGBM) Program Director 3/2019 - 7/2020 College of Business Global Business Program Director
External Academic Activities
Period Organizer Country / Region Role 2023 - Now Academy of Management Review United States of America Associate Editor 2022 - Now Journal of Organizational Behavior United States of America Editorial Board 2022 - Now Management and Organization Review United States of America Editorial Board 2021 - Now Journal of Applied Psychology United States of America Editorial Board
Publications
Journal Publications and Reviews
- LAM, Chak Fu; LAZZARINI, Sergio G.; STEPHENS, John Paul / Editors’ Comments: Voices from the Periphery: Barriers to Publication in AMR and Opportunities for Inclusion. January 2025; In: Academy of Management Review. Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 1-6
- Newton, Daniel W.; Sessions, Hudson; Lam, Chak Fu; Welsh, David T.; Wu, Wen / Loaded Down From Speaking Up: A Resource-Based Examination of Voicer Regret Following Supervisor Delegation. May 2024; In: Journal of Management. Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 1911-1938
- Romney, Alexander C.; Heydarifard, Zahra; Lam, Chak Fu / Reconciling Competing Perspectives About How Undermining at Home Influences Speaking Up at Work. April 2024; In: Journal of Business and Psychology. Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 513-526
- Lam, Chak Fu; Romney, Alexander C.; Newton, Daniel W.; Wu, Wen / Challenging the status quo in a non-challenging way: A dominance complementarity view of voice inquiry. 2024; In: Personnel Psychology. Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 1235-1264
- Kim, You Jin; Lam, Chak Fu; Oh, Jo (Kyoungjo); Sohn, Wonbin / Employee Constructive Voice: An Integrative Review and a Dyadic Approach. January 2023; In: Journal of Management. Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 430–473
- Lam, Chak Fu; Johnson, Hana Huang; Song, Lynda J.; Wu, Wen; Lee, Cynthia; Chen, Ziguang / More depleted, speak up more? A daily examination of the benefit and cost of depletion for voice behavior and voice endorsement. July 2022; In: Journal of Organizational Behavior. Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 983-1000
- Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich; Lam, Chak Fu; Bruch, Heike; Kunze, Florian; Wu, Wen / Team boundary work and team workload demands: Their interactive effect on team vigor and team effectiveness. July 2022; In: Human Resource Management. Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 465-488
- Zhang, Long; Fan, Chuanhao; Deng, Yulin; Lam, Chak Fu; Hu, Enhua; Wang, Lingyun / Exploring the interpersonal determinants of job embeddedness and voluntary turnover: A conservation of resources perspective. July 2019; In: Human Resource Management Journal. Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 413-432
- Lam, Chak Fu; Lee, Cynthia; Sui, Yang / Say It as It Is: Consequences of Voice Directness, Voice Politeness, and Voicer Credibility on Voice Endorsement. May 2019; In: Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 104, No. 5, pp. 642-658
- Lam, Chak Fu; Rees, Laura; Levesque, Laurie L.; Ornstein, Suzyn / Shooting from the hip: A habit perspective of voice. July 2018; In: Academy of Management Review. Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 470-486
- Zhang, Long; Lam, Chak Fu; Deng, Yulin / Leader–member exchange and guanxi are not the same: differential impact of dyadic relationships on fit perceptions, helping behavior, and turnover intention. 2017; In: International Journal of Human Resource Management. Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 1005-1030
- Lam, Chak Fu; Wan, Wylie H.; Roussin, Christopher J. / Going the Extra Mile and Feeling Energized: An Enrichment Perspective of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors. March 2016; In: Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 101, No. 3, pp. 379-391
- Lam, Chak Fu; Liang, Jian; Ashford, Susan J.; Lee, Cynthia / Job insecurity and organizational citizenship behavior: Exploring curvilinear and moderated relationships. March 2015; In: Journal of Applied Psychology. Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 499-510
- Lam, Chak Fu; Mayer, David M. / When do employees speak up for their customers? A model of voice in a customer service context. August 2014; In: Personnel Psychology. Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 637-666
- Lam, Chak Fu; Spreitzer, Gretchen; Fritz, Charlotte / Too much of a good thing: Curvilinear effect of positive affect on proactive behaviors. May 2014; In: Journal of Organizational Behavior. Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 530-546
- Quinn, Ryan W.; Spreitzer, Gretchen M.; Lam, Chak Fu / Building a Sustainable Model of Human Energy in Organizations: Exploring the Critical Role of Resources. June 2012; In: Academy of Management Annals. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 337-396
- Lam, Chak Fu; DeRue, D. Scott; Karam, Elizabeth P.; Hollenbeck, John R. / The impact of feedback frequency on learning and task performance: Challenging the ‘‘more is better’’ assumption. November 2011; In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol. 116, No. 2, pp. 217-228
- Fritz, Charlotte; Lam, Chak Fu; Spreitzer, Gretchen M. / It's the Little Things That Matter: An Examination of Knowledge Workers' Energy Management. August 2011; In: Academy of Management Perspectives. Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 28-39
- Lam, Chak Fu; Gurland, Suzanne T. / Self-determined work motivation predicts job outcomes, but what predicts self-determined work motivation?. August 2008; In: Journal of Research in Personality. Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1109-1115
Conference Papers
- Zhang, Melody J.; Ling, Chu-Ding ; Lam, Catherine K.; Lam, Chak Fu / How and When are Frequent Voicers Treated Badly? Employee Voice Behavior and Coworker Victimization. August 2022; 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management Proceedings.
- Lam, Chak Fu; Rees, Laura L.; Du, Qiying / The Benefits of Speaking Up More Versus Less Over Time: Consequences of Voice Trajectories. August 2019; Academy of Management Proceedings.
- Leicht-Deobald, Ulrich; Lam, Chak Fu / "A Moderated Mediation Model of Team Boundary Activities, Team Emotional Energy, and Team Innovation". August 2016; 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016. pp. 231-236
- Sui, Yang; Lam, Chak Fu; Lyu, Yijing; Lee, Cynthia / Task conflict and voice behavior: A curvilinear relationship. August 2016; 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016. pp. 916-921
- Hofer, Barbara K.; Lam, Chak Fu; Delisi, Alex / Understanding evolutionary theory: The role of epistemological development and beliefs. 2012; Epistemology and Science Education: Understanding the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Controversy. pp. 95-110
- Spreitzer, Gretchen M.; Lam, Chak Fu; Quinn, Ryan W. / Human Energy in Organizations: Implications for POS from Six Interdisciplinary Streams. August 2011; The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship.
- Spreitzer, Gretchen M.; Lam, Chak Fu; Fritz, Charlotte / Engagement and human thriving: Complementary perspectives on energy and connections to work. March 2010; Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research. pp. 132-148
Supervisory Experience
Period Nature 2023 - 2024 DBA Thesis - Jojo Wong 2022 - 2024 PhD Thesis - Ziwei Wang 2021 - 2024 DBA Thesis - Alfred Mu 2018 - 2023 PhD Thesis - Qiying (Sakura) Du