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Dr. Xiao Chu, also known as Lin Xiao Chu and formerly Xiaoshuang Lin, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the College of Business and Law, Adelaide University, holding the position since 2023. She is the Program Director of the Master and Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and Procurement & Supply Chain Management, a member of the Centre for Workplace Excellence, and host of its Food for Thought Seminars. Her academic background includes a PhD in Management from The Australian National University and an Advanced HE Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. Career history encompasses a Lectureship in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Southampton, England, and a full-time teaching role at Aston University in the West Midlands. She delivers courses on leading and managing organisational change, organisational leadership, business ethics, and managing decision making.

Xiao Chu's research specializations are Human Resources Management, Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Leadership, and Organisational Behaviour. Her work examines how servant leadership, leader humility, and leader support affect employee voice, wellbeing, and performance through psychological mechanisms in hybrid workplaces, aged care, and amid artificial intelligence influences. Employing quantitative methods with Mplus and SPSS, her studies cover Australia, the United Kingdom, China, and Canada. She received a British Academy research grant for 'Examining the dual effects of hybrid working on employee performance and well-being: A job demands-resources perspective' (2023-2025). Key publications include 'Why and when servant leadership spurs followers to speak up: a conservation of resources perspective' (Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2025, Lin, X., et al.); 'How and when AI-driven HRM promotes employee resilience and adaptive performance: a self-determination theory' (Journal of Business Research, 2025, Do, H., Chu, L. X., & Shipton, H.); 'Research: Humble Leaders Inspire Others to Step Up' (Harvard Business Review, 2025, Lin, X., & Tse, H.); 'How do humble leaders unleash followers' leadership potential? The roles of workplace status and individualistic orientation' (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2024, Lin, X., et al.); 'Psychological contract breach and destructive voice: the mediating effect of relative deprivation and the moderating effect of leader emotional support' (Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2022, Lin, X., et al.); and 'Why and when employees like to speak up more under humble leaders? The roles of personal sense of power and power distance' (Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, Lin, X., et al.). She is Associate Editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review and was Chair of the Organisational Behaviour Division Social Media for the Academy of Management (2020-2022).