Natalie Bin Zhao
Associate Professor, Management and Organization Studies
Burnaby
Room: WMC 4325
Phone: 778.782.3733
Email: natalie_zhao@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae: View
Credentials
M.Sc. Mgmt Science (Shandong U. of Science & Technology, P.R.China), M.Sc. Organizational Behaviour (National U. of Singapore), Ph.D. Organizational Behaviour (Ivey, U. of Western Ontario)Biography
Associate Professor Natalie Bin Zhao, who joined the Beedie School of Business in July 2006, teaches human resources management. She holds a PhD from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and MSc degrees in management from both the National University of Singapore and Shandong University of Science and Technology in China. She also worked in industry for several years at the Ji'ning Metal Materials Company in China.
Her research interests include error reporting, learning from errors, and employee compensation and motivation, and her work has been published in several top journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Sloan Management Review, and Journal of World Business. Natalie says her interest in teaching stems from the excellent teachers and professors she has encountered during her schooling. "All of them have helped me to be who I am today," she says. "In turn, I want to be one of them for my students." Natalie joined the Beedie School of Business because of its supportive, collegial faculty who, she notes, "all show very great productivity in terms of research and teaching."
Research Interests
Error Reporting
Learning from Errors
Employee Compensation and Motivation
Selected Publications
articles and reports
Zhang, K., Zhao, B., & Yin, K. (2023). The Double-Edged Sword of Error Sharing in Organizations: From A Self-Disclosure Perspective. Journal of Management Studies.
Ma, J., Zhao, B., Yan, J., & Zatzick, C. D. (2023). Lovable fools and creativity in teams. Creativity and Innovation Management.
Zhang, K., Zhao, B., & Yin, K. (2023). When Leaders Acknowledge Their Own Errors, Will Employees Follow Suit? A Social Learning Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05329-9
Elsayed, A. M., Zhao, B., Goda, A. E. m., & Elsetouhi, A. M. (2023). The role of error risk taking and perceived organizational innovation climate in the relationship between perceived psychological safety and innovative work behavior: A moderated mediation model. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1042911
Zhao, N. B., Emby, C., & Sieweke, J. (2019). Audit senior modeling fallibility: The effects of reduced error strain and enhanced error-related self-efficacy on audit juniors’ responses to self-discovered errors craig emby. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 31(2), 17-30. http://doi.org/10.2308/bria-52471
Li, J., & Zhao, N. B. (2019). Are you ready? Chinese firms' international management. Tsinghua Management Review.
Zhao, B., Seifried, J., & Sieweke, J. (2018). Trainers’ responses to errors matter in trainees’ learning from errors: evidence from two studies. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 33(3), 279-296. http://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-10-2017-0364
Wang, T., Thornhill, S., & Zhao, B. (2018). Pay-for-Performance, Employee Participation, and SME Performance. Journal of Small Business Management, 56(3), 412-434. http://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12268
Boston, P., & Zhao, B. (2017). Failing to innovate. Ivey Business Journal, March/April(http://iveybusinessjournal.com/failing-to-innovate), 1-5.
Zhang, J., & Zhao, B. (2016). Crowdfunding's Cafe Society. Ivey Business Journal, 2016(Nov/Dec), http://iveybusinessjournal.com/crowdfundings-cafe-society/.
Zhao, N. B., Lautsch, B., & Boyle, T. (2016). Mistakes happen - So manage them. Ivey Business Journal, Feature Article(May/June), http://iveybusinessjournal.com/mistakes-happen-so-manage-them/.
Sieweke, J., & Zhao, B. (2015). The impact of team familiarity and team leader experience on team coordination errors: A panel analysis of professional basketball teams. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36(3), 382-402. http://doi.org/10.1002/job.1993
Wang, T., Zhao, B., & Thornhill, S. (2015). Pay dispersion and organizational innovation: The mediation effects of employee participation and voluntary turnover. Human Relations, 68(7), 1155-1181. http://doi.org/10.1177/0018726715575359
Zatzick, C. D., Zhao, B., & Tingling, P. M. (2014). Avoiding layoff blunders. MIT Sloan Management Review, 55(3), 10-12. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/avoiding-layoff-blunders/
Zhao, B. (2011). Learning from errors: The role of context, emotion, and personality. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32(3), 435-463. http://doi.org/10.1002/job.696
Zhao, B., & Olivera, F. (2006). Error reporting in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 31(4), 1012-1030. http://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2006.22528167
Makino, S., Beamish, P. W., & Zhao, N. B. (2004). The characteristics and performance of Japanese FDI in less developed and developed countries. Journal of World Business, 39(4), 377-392. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2004.08.009
Tan, H. H., & Zhao, B. (2003). Individual and perceived contextual level antecedents to individual technical information inquiry in organizations. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 137(6), 597-621. http://doi.org/10.1080/00223980309600637
Zhao, B., & Hoon, T. H. (2001). Psychological mechanisms underlying individual knowledge learning and contribution in learning organizations. Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, 8(2), 3-28.
books chapters and monographs
Olivera, F., & Zhao, N. B. (2009). The career choice of Ms. Linlin Chen. In Barringer, B. R., & Ireland, R. D. (Eds.), Entrepreneurship: Successfully launching new ventures, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall.
Related Teaching Material
Li, J., & Zhao, N. B. (2019). China Gold International in Canada: What's Next? Case ID:Ivey ID: 9B19M071..
Olivera, F., & Zhao, B. (2007). The career choice of Ms. Linlin Chen. Case ID:Ivey ID: 907C15..