Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland in Australia. He came to academe in after an 18-year career in water resources engineering. He received his PhD in social/organizational psychology from the same university. His research is in leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations, and his work has been published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal and Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is Associate Editor for Emotion Review and Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prof. Ashkanasy is a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK (AcSS) and Australia (ASSA); the Association for Psychological Science (APS); the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Southern Management Association (SMA), and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). In 2017, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia.
Chad Chiu receives his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. As a behavioural scientist specialising in leadership and organisational behaviour, his research examines how leadership can be transformed from an individual role into an organisational capacity—a capability that is shared, sustained, and supported across different levels of the organisation. Central to this work is his interest in leader humility, a developmental resource that helps formal leaders nurture emerging leadership in others. Rather than focusing solely on improving individual leaders, He investigates how leadership practices—especially those grounded in humility—can create environments where more people are encouraged and enabled to take on leadership responsibilities, thereby strengthening the organisation’s long-term leadership capacity.
His research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Human Relations and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Management.
