# GONG, Yaping
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GONG, Yaping
Fung Term Professor of Management, Head, Chair Professor
Department of Management
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CHEN, Tingting
KIM, Tae-Yeol
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
LIANG, Yongyi
[What Really Sparks Employee Creativity?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/what-really-sparks-employee-creativity)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
[Motivation Incentives](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/motivation-incentives)
Creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for creativity can encourage employees to innovate, but their complex relationship has long puzzled researchers. Thanks to HKUST’s Yaping Gong and colleagues, we now know more about how these factors influence each other to generate creativity. Their findings will help organizations motivate and support
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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
[Power, Crisis, and AI in Creativity and Beyond](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/03/power-crisis-and-ai-creativity-and-beyond)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Risk Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/risk-management)
[Employee Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/employee-behavior)
Employee creativity is the source of new products, services, or processes and crucial to a firm’s survival and success. Social factors play an important role in creativity. The first social factor is power. Power is ubiquitous in and an essential feature of organizations. Through a series of four field studies, we found that power is a double-edged sword –
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JEONG, Inseong
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
ZHONG, Bijuan
[How Mindset and Goal Orientation Influence Creativity in a Crisis](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/07/how-mindset-and-goal-orientation-influence-creativity-crisis)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Employee Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/employee-behavior)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
Employee creativity is vital for organizational success, so sustaining it during a crisis—such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic—is essential. In a study with important implications for how organizations should react to crises to maintain employee creativity, HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and two colleagues show that an employee’s mindset and goal orientation
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LI, Yixuan
SHAO, Yiduo
WANG, Mo
FANG, Yanran
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
LI, Chang
[How an Inclusive Organizational Climate Promotes Knowledge Management and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/05/how-inclusive-organizational-climate-promotes-knowledge-management-and)
[Organizational Studies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-studies)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
[Management Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/management-performance)
A more diverse workforce can provide an organization with a broader talent base and a wider range of knowledge and perspectives. Recent trends of increasing globalization, migration, and aging have enhanced workplace diversity in terms of age, gender, and region of origin to an unprecedented degree. Thus, argue HKUST researcher Yaping Gong and colleagues, it
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LI, Yixuan
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
BURMEISTER, Anne
WANG, Mo
ALTERMAN, Valeria
ALONSO, Alexander
ROBINSON, Samuel
[Age Diversity in the Workplace: Building on Organizational Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/06/age-diversity-workplace-building-organizational-performance)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[Intellectual Property](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/intellectual-property)
[Operations Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/operations-management)
[Social Capital](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-capital)
Despite the world’s aging population, there is limited understanding of the relationship between age diversity and organizational performance. As a result, researchers are increasingly interested in the impact of age composition within the workplace. In a timely study, Yaping Gong of HKUST and colleagues set out to explore the impact of age on corporate
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LEE, Byron Y.
KIM, Tae-Yeol
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
ZHENG, Xiaoming
LIU, Xin
[Impact of Employee Well-being Human Resource Attribution on External and Internal Job Changes](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/01/impact-employee-well-being-human-resource-attribution-external-and-internal-job)
[Employee Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/employee-behavior)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
[Job Change Intention](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/job-change-intention)
Employees may advance their career by achieving internal job changes (i.e., changes in jobs within an organization) and external job changes (i.e., changes in jobs across organizational boundaries), and both changes may render different implications for the organization and the employee. To fill the gap in prior careers research, this study examines the
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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
KIM, Tae-Yeol
LIU, Zhiqiang
[Is There a Link Between Social Connections and Innovation?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/11/there-link-between-social-connections-and-innovation)
[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)
[Social Learning](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-learning)
[Tacit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/tacit-knowledge)
[Social Ties](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-ties)
[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)
The diversity of social ties and its influence on creativity has long been a key focal area for scholars. Social ties are simply interpersonal connections that provide access to resources, while creativity can be described as the formulation of new or useful ideas. Previous studies on social ties and its association with creativity have largely taken an
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[AI Recruiter and Applicant Reaction: A Matter of Warmth and Competence?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/04/ai-recruiter-and-applicant-reaction-matter-warmth-and-competence)
[Artificial Intelligence](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/artificial-intelligence)
[Recruitment](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/recruitment)
[Human Resource Management](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/human-resource-management)
[Technology and Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-and-innovation)
[Interdisciplinary Seminar](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interdisciplinary-seminar)
[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
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TRACEY, J Bruce
WAY, Sean A
FAY, Charles H
WRIGHT, Patrick M
SNELL, Scott A
CHANG, Song
[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
[How to Measure the Impact of HR Management on Firm Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2019/09/how-measure-impact-hr-management-firm-performance)
A firm’s ability to respond quickly to changes in customer demand, competition and emerging market threats and opportunities is essential to its success. Scholars have argued that flexible human resources (HR) policies may be instrumental in fostering this capacity and thus improving firm performance. But the theory underpinning this work has been
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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)
WANG, Mo
HUANG, Jia-Chi
CHEUNG, Siu Yin
[What Employees Seek From Feedback](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2019/05/what-employees-seek-feedback)
The simple assumption about feedback is that it should let employees know where they stand on job performance, yet researchers have had difficulty proving this happens in practice. One recent study, however, has been able to demonstrate how feedback can play this goal by focusing on the varieties and nuances of feedback.
The study, by Yaping Gong, Mo Wang
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