Riyang Phang

Riyang Phang is an HR educator and an interdisciplinary researcher who bridges computational simulation methods with human resource management. He has a professional certification in Total Rewards design by WorldatWork, US, and is an experienced agent- based modeler. He has a wide range of research interests from culture, olfaction, infrasound to poltical psychology. He had provided HR advice to several local businesses, and brought in funding for the university in 2018. He was the recipient of two research grants and has led the collection of employee attitudinal and cultural psychological data for more than 4000 employees in the Kyrgyz Republic. He introduced the use of Qualtrics in the university, was the Chair of AUCA Institutional Review Board, and is currently the GLOBE 2020 country investigator. He is the top MBA instructor in 2020, and has students who were awarded the university and department best thesis awards. He obtained his PhD from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in

ACADEMIC DEGREES

• 2016 PhD in Business Focus: Strategy, Management, & Organization Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2007 Bachelor’s (First Class Honours) in Human Resource Consulting, with Minor in Psychology Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 2007 Global Remuneration Professional WorldatWork, U.S.A.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Research

• 2017 Korn Ferry Institute. Global Research Center. Research. Methodology Validation and Rewards Trends.
• 2016 – 2017 Singapore Management University. School of Social Sciences. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Socio-cultural Psychology

• 2015 – 2016 Nanyang Technological University. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Culture Science Institute (Deon Lab). Research Fellow. Psychological impact from blasts and subterranean work. Teaching

• 2016 – American University of Central Asia MBA Thesis Advisor, Research Track MBA Research Seminar Management & Organization Behavior II Senior Thesis Advisor, Research Track I-O Psychology

• 2008 – 2012 Nanyang Technological University Compensation and Benefits Organizational Behavior Strategic Management

• 2014 Northumbria University Total Rewards Change, Work, & Diversity

• 2013 – 2014 Republic Polytechnic Human Resource Management Organizational Behavior

• 2012 KHEI International Human Resource Management Invited Presentations:

• Phang, R. (2015). Agent-based Modeling in OBHR Research. Complexity Institute. Nanyang Technological University.

• Phang, R. (2017). Pay for Performance Dilemma. School of Public Policy, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. (presentation in Chinese)

Academic Areas:

Organizational Behavior, Human Resource, Organizational Science, Computational Psychology (Agent-based Modeling), Performance Management, Social-Cultural Psychology