Wei Wang

Dr. Wei Wang earned his PhD in Work and Organizations from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and an Associates Fellow in Leadership and Ethics at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. Since 2023, he has co-directed the David Dreman Behavioural Management Research Centre and the Asper Behavioural Management Lab. His research has been supported by the SSHRC Insight Grant Program and uses diverse methods to examine leadership and ethics in organizations with the aim of creating more inclusive, ethical workplaces.

Dr. Wang was named the 2019 Society for Business Ethics Emerging Scholar and received the 2022 Anne Tsui Dare to Care Research Award. His work appears in leading journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Management, and he regularly shares insights with broader audiences via CBC, Canadian HR Reporter, 680 CJOB, and The Manitoban. He also provides leadership workshops for student groups and the local business community in Winnipeg.

As a lifelong educator at heart, shaped by growing up in a family of teachers, Dr. Wei Wang is passionate about helping students thrive in the classroom and beyond. His dedication to teaching has been recognized with the 2024 University of Manitoba Teaching Merit Award and the 2025 Associates' Award in Teaching, and selection as a 2025 Poets & Quants Top 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professor.

When he is not doing research or teaching, he enjoys traveling, long-distance running, and exploring new restaurants.
 

• Leadership
• Business Ethics

• Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource
• Negotiation
• Business Ethics

Wang, W., Campbell, E., Duffy, M., & Liu, J. Accepted. When Narcissists Exemplify Ethics: Contingent Consequences of Ethical Leadership. Journal of Applied Psychology.  

Campbell, E., Welsh, D., & Wang, W. 2023. Above the Law? How Motivated Moral Reasoning Shapes Evaluations of High Performer Unethicality. Journal of Applied Psychology.                            

Kim, E., Lee, K., Tai, K., Johnson, T., Wang, W., Duffy, M., & Kim, S. 2022. Gender, Bottom-line Mentality, and Workplace Mistreatment: The Roles of Gender Norm Violation and Team Gender Composition. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(5), 854–865. 

Robinson, S., Wang, W., & Kiewitz, C. 2014. Coworkers Behaving Badly: The Impact of Coworkers’ Deviant Behaviors Upon Individual Employees. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1: 123-143.  

Robinson, S., O’Reilly, J, & Wang, W. 2013. Invisible at Work: An Integrated Model of Workplace Ostracism. Journal of Management, 39: 203-231. 

In 2015, the United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a shared framework to address urgent global challenges, from poverty reduction to environmental sustainability. This scholar’s research advances knowledge and contributes to impact in the following SDG(s):