Thomas W.H. NG

Thomas Ng received his PhD from the University of Georgia and is currently a Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include career development, job mobility, organizational embeddedness, employee aging issues, employment relationships, and personality at work.

Academic & Professional Qualification

• PhD University of Georgia
• MPhil CUHK
• BBA CUHK

Teaching

• Organizational behavior
• Human resource management
• Career development

Research Interest

• Aging
• Career development
• Employee job mobility and embeddedness
• Organizational and occupational commitment
• Personality at work
• Psychological contracts and employment arrangements

Selected Publications

Refereed journals (The most recent ones are listed first)

• Ng, T. W. H., Yim, F.K., Chen, H., & Zou, Y. (in press). Employer-Sponsored Career Development Practices and Employee Performance and Turnover: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Management.
• Shao, Y., Goštautaitė, B., Wang, M., & Ng, T. W. H.(2022). Age and sickness absence: Testing physical health issues and work engagement as countervailing mechanisms in a cross-national context. Personnel Psychology, 75(4), 895-927.
• Ng, T. W. H., Wang, M., Hsu, D. Y., & Su, C. (2022). Voice quality and ostracism. Journal of Management, 48, 281-318.
• Ng, T. W. H., Shao, Y., Koopmann, J., Wang, M., Hsu, D. Y., & Yim, F. H. K. (2022). The effects of idea rejection on creative self-efficacy and idea generation: Intention to remain and perceived innovation importance as moderators. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43, 146-163.
• Ng, T. W. H., Hsu, D. Y., Yim, F. H. K., Zou, Y., & Chen, H. (2021). Wish-making during the COVID-19 pandemic enhances positive appraisals and job satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 130, 103619.
• Ng, T. W. H., Yim, F. H. K., Zou, Y., & Chen, H. (2021). Receiving developmental idiosyncratic deals over time: Showing innovative behavior is key. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 130, 103630.
• Ng, T. W. H., Lucianetti, L., Hsu, D. Y., Yim, F. H. K., & Sorensen, K. L. (2021). You speak, I speak: The social-cognitive mechanisms of voice contagion. Journal of Management Studies, 58, 1569-1608.
• Ng, T. W. H., Hsu, D. Y., & Parker, S. K. (2021). Received respect and constructive voice: The roles of proactive motivation and perspective taking. Journal of Management, 47, 399-429.
• Ng, T. W. H., Wang, M., Hsu, D. Y., & Su, C. (2021). Changes in perceptions of ethical leadership: Effects on associative and dissociative outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 106, 92-121.
• Zhang, Y. W., Zhang, Y., Ng, T. W. H., & Lam, S. K. K. (2019). Promotion- and prevention-focused coping: A meta-analytic examination of regulatory strategies in the work stress process. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 1296-1323.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Yam, K. C. (2019). When and why does employee creativity fuel deviance? Key psychological mechanisms. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 1144-1163.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Wang, M. (2019). An actor-partner interdependence model of employees’ and coworkers’ innovative behavior, psychological detachment, and strain reactions. Personnel Psychology, 72, 445-476.
• Ng, T. W. H., Yam, K. C., & Aguinis, H. (2019). Employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility: Effects on pride, embeddedness, and turnover. Personnel Psychology, 72, 107-137.
• Ng, T. W. H., Sorensen, K. L., Zhang, Y., & Yim, F. H. K. (2019). Anger, anxiety, depression, and negative affect: Convergent or divergent? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110, 186-202.
• Ng, T. W. H. & Lucianetti, L. (2018). Are embedded employees active or passive? The roles of learning goal orientation and preferences for wide task boundaries and job mobility in the embeddedness-voice link. Human Resource Management, 57, 1251-1269.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Allen, T. D. (2018). Organizational attachment and health. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 107, 1-14.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2017). Transformational leadership and performance outcomes: Analyses of multiple mediation pathways. Leadership Quarterly, 28, 385-417.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2017). Can idiosyncratic deals promote perceptions of competitive climate, felt ostracism, and turnover? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 99, 118-131.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2016). Embedding employees early on: The importance of workplace respect. Personnel Psychology, 69, 599-633.
• Ng, T. W. H., Lam, S. S. K., & Feldman, D. C. (2016). Organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior: Do males and females differ?Journal of Vocational Behavior, 93, 11-32.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Lucianetti, L. (2016). Within-individual increases in innovative behavior and creative, persuasion, and change self-efficacy over time: A social cognitive theory perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 14-34.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Lucianetti, L. (2016). Goal striving, idiosyncratic deals, and job behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37, 41-60.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2015). Felt obligations to reciprocate to the employer, preferences for mobility across employers, and gender: Three-way interaction effects on subsequent voice behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 90, 36-45.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2015). Ethical leadership: Meta-analytic evidence of criterion-related and incremental validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 948-965.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2015). The incremental validity of organizational commitment, organizational trust, and organizational identification. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 88, 154-163.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2015). The moderating effects of age in the relationships of job autonomy to work outcomes. Work, Aging and Retirement, 1, 64-78.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2015). Idiosyncratic deals and voice behavior. Journal of Management, 41, 893-928.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2014). Embeddedness and well-being in the United States and Singapore: The mediating effects of work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 19, 360-375.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2014). Subjective career success: A meta-analytical review. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85, 169-179.
• Ng, T. W. H., Feldman, D. C., & Butts, M. M. (2014). Psychological contract breaches and employee voice behavior: The moderating effects of changes in social relationships. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23, 537-553.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2014). A conservation of resources perspective on career hurdles and salary attainment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85, 156-168.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2014). Community embeddedness and work outcomes: The mediating role of organizational embeddedness. Human Relations, 67, 71-103.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). How do within-person changes due to aging affect job performance? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83, 500-513.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). A meta-analysis of the relationships of age and tenure with innovation-related behavior. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 86, 585-616.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). Does longer job tenure help or hinder job performance? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83, 305-314.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). Employee age and health. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83, 336-345.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). Changes in perceived supervisor embeddedness: Effects on employees’ embeddedness, organizational trust, and voice behavior. Personnel Psychology, 66, 645-685.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). Age and innovation-related behavior: The joint moderating effects of supervisor undermining and proactive personality. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34, 583-606.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2013). The effects of organizational embeddedness on insomnia. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 62, 330-357.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). The effects of organizational and community embeddedness on work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 1233-1251.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). Evaluating six common stereotypes about older workers with meta-analytical data. Personnel Psychology, 65, 821-858.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). Breaches of past promises, current job alternatives, and promises of future idiosyncratic deals: Three-way interaction effects on organizational commitment. Human Relations, 65, 1463-1486.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). A comparison of self-ratings and non-self- report measures of employee creativity. Human Relations, 65, 1021-1047.
• Lam, S. K. K., Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). The relationship between external job mobility and salary attainment across career stages. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80, 129-136.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). Employee voice behavior: A meta-analytical test of the conservation of resources framework. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33, 216-234.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2011). Affective organizational commitment and citizenship behavior: Linear and non-linear moderating effects of organizational tenure. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79, 528-537.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2011). Locus of control and organizational embeddedness. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 84, 173-190.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). The impact of job embeddedness on innovation-related behaviors. Human Resource Management, 49, 1067-1087.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). The effects of organizational embeddedness on development of social and human capital. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 696-712.
• Ng, T. W. H., Feldman, D. C., & Lam, S. S. K. (2010). Psychological contract breaches, organizational commitment, and innovation-related behavior: A latent growth modeling approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 744-751.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). The relationships of age with job attitudes: A meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 63, 677-718.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). Organizational tenure and job performance. Journal of Management, 36, 1220-1250.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). Idiosyncratic deals and organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 76, 419-427.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2010). Human capital and objective indicators of career success: The mediating effects of cognitive ability and conscientiousness.Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 83, 207-235.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2009). Age, work experience, and the psychological contract. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 1053-1075.
• Ng, T. W. H., Sorensen, K. L., & Yim, F. H. K. (2009). Does the job satisfaction-job performance relationship vary across cultures? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 761-796.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2009). Personality, social relationships, and vocational indecision among college students: The mediating effects of identity construction. Career Development International, 14, 309-332.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2009). Occupational embeddedness and job performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 863-891.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Sorensen, K. L. (2009). Dispositional affectivity and work-related outcomes: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39, 1255-1287.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2009). Re-examining the relationship between age and voluntary turnover. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74, 283-294.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Butts, M. M. (2009). Effectiveness of organizational efforts to lower turnover intentions: The moderating role of employee locus of control. Human Resource Management, 48, 289-310.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2009). How broadly does education contribute to job performance? Personnel Psychology, 62, 89-134.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2008). Can you get a better deal elsewhere? The effects of psychological contract replicability on organizational commitment over time. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 268-277.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2008). Long work hours: A social identity perspective on meta-analysis data. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29, 853-880.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Sorensen, K. L. (2008). Toward a further understanding of the relationships between perceptions of support and work attitudes: A meta-analysis. Group and Organization Management, 33, 243-268.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2008). The relationship of age to ten dimensions of job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 392-423.
• Eby, L. T., Allen, T. D., Evans, S. C., Ng, T. W. H., & DuBois, D. L. (2008). Does mentoring matter? A multidisciplinary meta-analysis comparing mentored and non-mentored individuals. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 72, 254-267.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2007). The school-to-work transition: A role identity perspective. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71, 114-134.
• Ng, T. W. H., Sorensen, K. L., Eby, L. T., & Feldman, D. C. (2007). Determinants of job mobility: A theoretical integration and extension. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 80, 363-386.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2007). Organizational embeddedness and occupational embeddedness across career stages. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 70, 336-351.
• Ng, T. W. H., Sorensen, K. L., & Feldman, D. C. (2007). Dimensions, antecedents, and consequences of workaholism: A conceptual integration and extension. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28, 111-136.
• Feldman, D. C., & Ng, T. W. H. (2007). Careers: Mobility, embeddedness, and success. Journal of Management, 33, 350-377.
• Ng, T. W. H., Sorensen, K. L., & Eby, L. T. (2006). Locus of control at work: A meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27, 1057-1087.
• Ng, T. W. H., Butts, M. M., Vandenberg, R. J, Dejoy, D. M., & Wilson, M. G. (2006). Effects of management communication, opportunity for learning, and work schedule flexibility on organizational commitment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68, 474-489.
• Ng, T. W. H., Eby, L. T., Sorensen, K. L., & Feldman, D. C. (2005). Predictors of objective and subjective career success: A meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 58, 367-408.

Book chapters (The most recent ones are listed first)

• Ng, T. W. H. (2015). Employee aging. In Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2014). Conservation of resources model. In M. Vodosek, D. Den Hartog, & J. M. McNett (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (Volume 6, International Management). New York: Wiley.
• Feldman, D. C., & Ng, T. W. H. (2013). Theoretical approaches to the study of job transitions. In N. Schmitt & S. Highhouse (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology (Volume 12, pp. 292-307). New York: Wiley.
• Feldman, D. C., Ng, T. W. H., & Vogel, R. M. (2012). Off-the-job embeddedness: A reconceptualization and agenda for future research. In J. J. Martocchio, A. Joshi, & H. Liao (Eds.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (pp. 209-251). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
• Ng, T. W. H., & Feldman, D. C. (2012). Aging and participation in career development. In J. W. Hedge & W. C. Borman (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging (pp. 137-150). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Feldman, D. C., & Ng, T. W. H. (2011). Participation in continuing education programs: Antecedents, consequences, and implications. In M. London (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Lifelong Learning (pp. 180-194). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Butts, M. M., & Ng, T. W. H. (2008). Chopped liver? OK. Chopped Data? Not OK. In C. E. Lance & R. J. Vandenberg (Eds.), Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends: Received Doctrine, Verity, and Fable in the Organizational and Social Sciences (pp. 361-386). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Feldman, D. C., & Ng, T. W. H. (2008). Motivation for engaging in training and career development. In R. Kanfer, G. Chen, & R. Pritchard (Eds.), Work Motivation: Past, Present, and Future (pp. 401-431). New York: Routledge.
• Ng, T. W. H. (2006). Career mobility. In J. H. Greenhaus & G. A. Callanan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Career Development (pp. 127-130). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Service to the University/Community

Editorial Board for the following journals:

• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Management Studies
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Personnel Psychology