TonyKong
- Professor
- Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics PhD Program Director
- Chair of the Social Responsibility & Sustainability Division
- ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION ANALYTICS
- SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Dejun “Tony” Kong (Ph.D. in Business Administration, Washington University in St. Louis, USA) is a Full Professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics at the ñ’s Leeds School of Business. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (2026-27).
Tony’s research addresses the overarching question: How can we enable people to be more prosocial? Specifically, he has three streams of research: fostering individuals' positive experiences (e.g., trust, humor, gratitude, authenticity, autonomy, etc.), fostering good organizational systems (e.g., leadership, HR practices, culture), and fostering high-trust societies. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles. According to Elsevier BV and Stanford University, he is a top 2 percentilescientist (based on single years) worldwide. His research has appeared in numerous journals such asAcademy of Management Journal,Academy of Management Review, Current Opinion in Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology,Journal of Business Venturing,Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior,Journal of Personality,Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes,Organizational Psychology Review, andPsychological Science. His research has also been highlighted in the Harvard Business Review. In 2016, his co-edited book “Leading through Conflict: Into the Fray” was published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Tony has received numerous research, teaching, and service awards. For example, he received a Best Conflict-in-Context Paper Award and a Most Influential Article Award from the Academy of Management’s (AOM) Conflict Management Division. In 2020, he received the University of South Florida’s Women and Leadership Initiative (WALI) research award. In 2019, he was selected byPoets & Quantsas a “40 under 40” best business professor in the world. He was also named an Ascendant Scholar in 2019 by the Western Academy of Management, a Rutgers University's Research Fellow, and a University of Louisville’s Rechter Fellow for Leadership.
Tony has actively engaged in various kinds of service work and leadership work for his professional and local communities. For example, he served as a trustee of St. Anthony’s Hospital in Florida. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and Human Relations and a Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and on the editorial review boards of numerous other journals, such as theAcademy of Management Journal,Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes,Organization Science, etc.He was a Rep-at-Large of the International Association for Conflict Management, chairing multiple awards committees. In 2024, he was elected to be a division leader (5-year leadership track) of the AOM Conflict Management Division.