Kai Chi Sam

YAM, Kai Chi Sam

Assistant Professor

MANAGEMENT & ORGANISATION

+65-6601-2458
bizykc@nus.edu.sg
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Curriculum Vitae

Recognition & Awards

  • Best Paper Award, Academy of Management OB Division (Lead author) - 2014
  • Dean's Achievement Award, University of Washington - 2014
  • Best Paper Award, Excellence in Ethics Research Conference (Lead author) - 2013
  • Best Student Paper Award, Academy of Management HR Division (Lead author) - 2013
  • Society for Business Ethics Founders' Award, Emerging Scholars (Lead author) - 2012
  • Top Scholar Award, University of Washington - 2011

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2015
  • M.Sc., Organizational Behavior, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2014
  • M.A., Human Development, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2011
  • B.S., Psychology (with Distinction), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2009

Selected Publications

Cleansing My Abuse: A Reparative Response Model of Perpetrating Abusive Supervisor Behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Liao, Z, Johnson, R E, Liu, W and Song, Z
Journal of Applied Psychology

Year
2018

The mixed blessing of leader sense of humor: Examining costs and benefits

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Christian M, Wu W, Liao Z and Nai J
Academy of Management Journal

Year
2017

Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution appraisals, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr, R, He, W, Chiang, J T J and Wei, W
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143, 98-110

Year
2017

Cut You Some Slack? An Investigation of the Perceptions of a Depleted Employee’s Unethicality

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Zhang, Y, Kouchaki, M and Zhang, J
Journal of Business Ethics, 1-11

Year
2017

Self-control at work

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Lian H, Ferris D L and Brown D
The Academy of Management Annals, 11, (2), 1-52

Year
2017

Research Impact

Google Scholar

Web of Science

Scopus

Selected Publications

15

Journals

6

Conference

Journal Articles

Cleansing My Abuse: A Reparative Response Model of Perpetrating Abusive Supervisor Behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Liao, Z, Johnson, R E, Liu, W and Song, Z
Journal of Applied Psychology

Year
2018

The mixed blessing of leader sense of humor: Examining costs and benefits

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Christian M, Wu W, Liao Z and Nai J
Academy of Management Journal

Year
2017

Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution appraisals, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr, R, He, W, Chiang, J T J and Wei, W
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 143, 98-110

Year
2017

Cut You Some Slack? An Investigation of the Perceptions of a Depleted Employee’s Unethicality

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Zhang, Y, Kouchaki, M and Zhang, J
Journal of Business Ethics, 1-11

Year
2017

Self-control at work

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Lian H, Ferris D L and Brown D
The Academy of Management Annals, 11, (2), 1-52

Year
2017

From Good Soldiers to Psychologically Entitled: Examining When and Why Citizenship Behavior Leads to Deviance

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Klotz A, He W and Reynolds S J
Academy of Management Journal, 60, 1-24

Year
2017

Leader humility and team performance: Exploring the mechanisms of team psychological capital and task allocation effectiveness

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Rego A, Owens B P, Bluhm D, Cunha M P, Silard T, Gonclaves L, Martins M, Simpson A V and Liu W
Journal of Management

Year
2016

Workplace status: The development and validation of a scale

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Djurdjevic E, Stoverink A, Klotz A, de Motta Veiga S, Koopman J and Chiang J
Journal of Applied Psychology

Year
2016

Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution, organizational citizenship, and counterproductive work behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr R, He W, Chiang J and Wei W
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Year
2016

Interactional justice, leader-member exchange, and employee performance: Examining the moderating role of justice differentiation

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with He W, Fehr R and Long L R
Journal of Organizational Behavior

Year
2016

Out of control: A self-control perspective on the link between surface acting and abusive supervision

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr R, Keng-Highberger F, Klotz A and Reynolds S
Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 292-301

Year
2016

The effects of victim anonymity on unethical behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Reynolds S
Journal of Business Ethics, 136, 13-22

Year
2016

The effects of thought suppression on ethnical decision making: Mental rebound vs. ego depletion

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam
Journal of Business Ethics

Year
2015

Counterfactual and factual reflection: The influence of past misdeeds on future immoral behavior

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Gaspar J, Seabright M and Reynolds S
Journal of Social Psychology, 155, 370-380

Year
2015

When and why empowering leadership increases follower taking charge: A multilevel examination in China

Journal Articles
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Li S, He W and Long L
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 32, (3), 645-670

Year
2015

Conference/Seminars

Workplace gossip prevalence on job performance. The mediating role of performance pressure

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Tan N and Nai J
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2017

Moral decoupling and the causes and consequences of unethical pro-organizational behavior

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr R, Welsh D, Baer M and Wu W
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2017

I come to praise ago depletion, not to bury it

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Ferris L and Lain H
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2017

Polluted work: A self-control perspective on air pollution

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr R, Wei H, Chiang J and Wu W
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2015

Turning good soldiers into bad apples: Examining when and why citizenship behavior leads to deviance

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Klotz A, He W and Reynolds S
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2015

A self-control perspective on the link between surface acting and abusive supervision

Conference/Seminars
YAM, Kai Chi Sam with Fehr R, Fong R, Klotz A and Reynolds S
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Year
2015

Research / Teaching Areas

Judgment And Decision Making

Leadership

Organizational Behavior

Business Ethics

Societal Impact

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The upside of an angry boss

Many of us have experienced the ire of an angry boss. Getting shouted at or sworn at in front of colleagues, or being humiliated for making a mista...

January 23rd, 2020

Deconstructing the robot ‘threat’

At the Henn Na Hotel in southern Japan’s Huis Ten Bosch theme park, guests have the choice to check in with either a robot receptionist in human ...

November 25th, 2019

Office humour: Why the joke’s on you

What makes a joke funny? It’s an age old question – some say it depends on timing, location, delivery, the audience or any number of other fact...

September 28th, 2018

Why it pays to be nice to your staff

Richard Branson, the maverick founder of Virgin, once said: “Train people well enough so they can leave; treat them well enough so they don’t w...

October 26th, 2017

Empowering employees to drive change

“Show initiative”… “Think out of the box”… “Take charge of the situation”…

Such phrases are often heard from b...

May 17th, 2017

When good apples go bad: The effects of being pressured to do good

When a colleague goes the extra mile to help others or signs up regularly for charity fundraisers one might think that it’s from the goodness of ...

December 13th, 2016

Flexible hours: Benefit or curse?

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” – it’s a popular motto generally attributed to America...

May 13th, 2016

Membership & Professional Activities

  • Mentored, Over 10 undergraduate research assistants, resulting in numerous research presentations University of Washington.
  • Judge, Business Ethics Case Competition, University of Washington, 2013-2014
  • Invited Speaker, PDW on Advise to Pre-Dissertation Doctoral Students-2015
  • Chair, Best Student Paper Award Committee, Academy of Management HR Division, 2015
  • Ad-hoc reviewer, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2014-present
  • Ad-hoc reviewer, Business Ethics Quarterly, 2013
  • Ad-hoc reviewer, Academy of Management Conference, 2011-present
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