Faculty and ResearchExpert Guide

Education

• PhD, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
• Master of Science, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
• Master of Social Science, Psychology
  National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Bachelor of Social Science, Psychology
  National University of Singapore, Singapore

Professional Activities

Dr. Hock-Peng Sin is an associate professor and Alvah Chapman Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair at Florida International University in the Department of Global Leadership and Management.  He also serves as the faculty director of the International MBA program and the PhD program director for the department of GLAM.  Dr. Sin received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University.

His research areas include leadership (e.g., leader-member exchange and leadership development), management of dynamic performance, as well as multi-level methodology in organizational research.  Dr. Sin has published more than a dozen articles and book chapters including several publications in premier outlets such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal. His research has garnered over 2,000 scholarly citations according to the Google Scholar index. He regularly reviews for numerous academic journals and currently serves as editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.  He is also the recipient of several best paper awards including the Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award for a paper published in 2011.

In addition to teaching organizational behavior and human resource management courses at the undergraduate-, MBA-, MSHRM-, and PhD-levels, Dr. Sin also regularly conducts executive training on strategic leadership, traps in decision making, and 360-degree executive feedback at the leadership development programs through the FIU Center for Leadership, as well as the annual Chapmanville leadership development program for senior leaders from across Miami-Dade County government.

Courses Taught

• Doctoral Research in Business Administration
• Doctoral Seminar in Business Administration
• Fundamentals of Behavioral Research
• High Involvement Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Management Metrics
• Master's Seminar in Management
• Organization Design and Behavior
• Organizational Behavior
• Organizational Behavior Management
• Ph.D. Dissertation

Refereed Journal Articles

Hiller, N. J., Sin, H., Ponnapalli, A. R., & Ozgen Novelli, S. (2019). Benevolence and authority as WEIRDly unfamiliar: A multi-language meta-analysis of paternalistic leadership behaviors from 152 studies. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1).

Newman, D. A., & Sin, H. (2018). Within-group agreement (rwg): Two theoretical parameters and their estimators. Organizational Research Methods. (Accepted)

Koopman, J., Howe, M. D., Hollenbeck, J. R., & Sin, H. P. (2015). Small sample mediation testing: Misplaced confidence in bootstrapped confidence intervals. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100.

Spitzmuller, M., Sin, H. P., Howe, M., & Fatimah, S. (2015). Investigating the uniqueness and usefulness of proactive personality in organizational research: A meta-analytic review. Human Performance, 28.

Day, D. V., & Sin, H. P. (2011). Longitudinal tests of an integrative model of leader development: Charting and understanding developmental trajectories. Leadership Quarterly, 22(3).

Wilson, K. S., Sin, H. P., & Conlon, D. E. (2010). What about the leader in leader-member exchange? The impact of resource exchanges and substitutability on the leader. Academy of Management Review, 35(3).

Sin, H. P., Nahrgang, J. D., & Morgeson, F. P. (2009). Understanding why they don’t see eye to eye: An examination of leader? Member exchange (LMX) agreement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(4).

Newman, D. A., & Sin, H. P. (2009). How do missing data bias estimates of within-group agreement? Sensitivity of SDWG, CVWG, rWG(J), rWG(J)*, and ICC to systematic nonresponse. Organizational Research Methods, 12(1).

Foo, M., Sin, H. P., & Yiong, L. (2006). Effects of team inputs and intra team processes on perceptions of team viability and member satisfaction in nascent ventures. Strategic Management Journal, 27(4).

Day, D. V., Sin, H. P., & Chen, T. T. (2004). Assessing the burdens of leadership: Effects of formal leadership roles on individual performance over time. Personnel Psychology, 57.

Grandey, A. A., Dickter, D. N., & Sin, H. P. (2004). The customer is not always right: Customer aggression and emotion regulation of service employees. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25.