LAN Junbang
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
Ph.D (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Email:lanjunb@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Education
Feb. 2018 Ph.D. Hong Kong Baptist University
Department of Management, School of Business, HK
July 2014 M.Sc. Nanjing University
Human Resource Management, School of Business, Nanjing
July 2011 Bachelor Hainan University
Department of Management, School of Business, Haikou
Work Experience
2022 - Present Associate Professor Sun Yat-sen University,
School of Tourism Management
2019 - 2022 Research Fellow Sun Yat-sen University,
School of Tourism Management
2018 - 2019 Post-doctoral Fellow The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
School of Business Management
Research Interests
- Employee behaviors in hospitality and tourism
- Discrete emotions, emotional labor, and emotional intelligence
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Employee-AI collaboration in hospitality service
ResearchGrants
- Optimization of Employee-AI Collaboration in Tourism and Hospitality Industry: From the Job Crafting Perspective, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72472164), RMB 420000, 2025.01- 2028.12, Principal Investigator (PI).
- Past, Present, or Future?The effects of temporal focus on employee outcomes, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72001218), RMB 240000, 2021.01-2023.12, Principal Investigator (PI).
- The dynamic relationships between customer behavior and service employees’ emotions, funded by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, RMB 80,000, 2020.01-2022.12, Principal Investigator (PI).
Current Courses
- Introduction to Hotel Management (Undergraduate)
- Positive Psychology (Undergraduate)
- Occupational Health Management in Service Industry (Undergraduate)
- Hospitality Management (Postgraduate)
Published Books
- Zeng guojun &Lan Junbang(editor),Introduction to Hotel Management,Science Press,2025
- Yang yun, Zhu hong, & Lan Junbang(editor), Hotel Human Resource Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press, 2024
Journal Publications
- Sun F., Sun H., Li S.L, Lei X. & Lan J.B. (2025) Followers’role breadth self-efficacy matters: Examining the “double-edged sword” effects of empowering leadership. Chinese Management Studies.
- Lan J.B., Zhang D.*, Wong C.S., Peng, K.Z., & Lan Z. (2025) Minimizing Hotel Employees’ Negative Responses to Adverse Change Practices: The Application of Attribution Theory. International Journal of Hospitality Management,124, 103984.
- Liu, F., Lan J.B.*, Zhu, W.C., Gong Y.Y., & Peng, X. (2024) Leader-follower congruence in overqualification and leader undermining: The mediating role of leader downward envy. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 45(5), 849-862.
- Chen, Y.Y., Zhao, C., Yan, M., & Lan, J.B. (2024) The cross-level effect of team politics on “teamness” and “oneness” of frontline employees in the tourism industry: The moderating role of abusive supervision.International Journal of Hospitality Management, 117, 103634.
- Liu, F., Li, J. X., Lan, J.B.*, & Gong, Y.Y. (2024) Linking perceived overqualification to work withdrawal, employee silence, and pro-job unethical behavior in a Chinese context: The mediating roles of shame and anger. Review of Managerial Science, 18(3), 711-737.
- Lan, J.B., Wong, I. A., Fong, V. H. I., & Guo, J. W. (2023). Duality of conscientiousness and service knowledge growth: The role of self-efficacy and self-deception. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 54, 426-436.
- Lan, J.B., Huo, Y., Wong, I.A., & Yuan, B.* (2023) How the (In)Congruence of Leader-Follower Learning Goal Orientation Influences Leader-member Exchange and Employee Innovation.International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management,35(7), 2545-2563.
- Zhao, H.R., Lan, J.B.*, Lyu, T., & Zeng, G.J.*. (2023). Working with artificial intelligence surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed investigation of the influence mechanism on job engagement in hospitality industry. Current Issues in Tourism,26(20), 3318-3335.
- Ruan, W., Wong, I., & Lan, J.B. (2022) Uniting Ecological Belief and Social Conformity in Green Events. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 53, 61-69.
- Lan, J.B., Gong Y., & Yuan, B.* (2022) Requested to do right things excessively: How citizenship pressure/future focus influence health and work outcomes in health organizations during the pandemic. Journal of Health Organization and Management,36(6), 748-766.
- Lan, J.B., Gong, Y., Liu, T.*, Wong, M.N., Yuan, B. (2022). How Emotional Regulation and Conscientiousness Break the Reciprocal Circle between Customer Mistreatment and Surface Acting: An Experience Sampling Study. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 34(11), 4007-4028.
- Lan, J.B., Wong, C.S., & Wong, I.A. (2022). TheRole ofKnowledge Sharing in Hotel Newcomer Socialization: A Formal Intervention Program. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 34(6), 2250-2271.
- Lan, J.B., Mao, Y., Peng, K.Z., & Wang, Y. (2022). The Combined Effects of Positive and Negative Affect on Job Satisfaction and Counter-productive Work Behavior.Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 39(3), 1051-1069.
- Wong, C. S., Lan, J.B.*, Peng, K. Z., & Iun, J., (2022). Should We Stop Using the Label of “Paternalistic Leadership”? Evidence from Three Chinese Samples. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 43(6), 909-927.
- Sun, F., Zhang, A.Q., & Lan, J.B.*(2022). Job insecurity and employees’ taking charge behaviors: testing a moderated mediation model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2), 696.
- Lan, J.B., Wong, I.A., & Guo, J.W. (2021). Service Training Intervention and Time-Variant Personal Growth.International Journal of Hospitality Management,98, 103036.
- Lan, J.B., Wong, C.S., & Zeng, G.J. (2021). Personality Profile for Hospitality Employees: Impact on Job Performance and Satisfaction. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 98, 103018.
- Lan, J.B., Huo, Y., Cai, Z.*, Wong, C.S., Chen, Z.G., & Lam, W. (2020).Uncovering the impact of triadic relationshipswithin a team on job performance: an application ofbalance theory in predicting feedback-seekingbehaviour. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,93(3), 654-686.
- Lan, J.B., Wong, C.S., Mao, Y., & Peng, K. (2020). Neglected Forms of Dispositional Variable - Employee Outcome Relationships. Journal of Management and Business Research, 37(3), 187-200.
- Hsu, Y., Wong, J., & Lan, J.B.*.(2020). Evaluating the Performance of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP): A Checklist Developed from a Large Sample of Public Agencies.Asia Pacific Journal of Management,37(3), 935-955.
- Cai, Z., Huo, Y., Lan, J.B.*, Chen, Z., & Lam, W. (2019). When Do Frontline Hospitality Employees Take Charge? Prosocial Motivation, Taking Charge, and Job Performance: The Moderating Role of Job Autonomy. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 60(3), 237-248.
- Liu, Y., Mao, Y., Lan, J.B., Wong, C. S., & Peng, K. Z. (2019). Conducting Studies on Person-Centered Career Interest Profiles: An Illustrative Example in Hong Kong. Journal of Career Development.
- Wang, Y., Peng, K. Z., Mao, Y., & Lan, J.B. (2018). Development of a Chinese measure on twelve basic emotions and a preliminary test on a two-dimensional model on emotions-job outcome relationship. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35(2), 529-564.
- Lan, J., Wong, C.S., Jiang, C., & Mao, Y. (2017). The Effect of Leadership on Work-related Flow: A Moderated Mediation Model. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 38(2), 210-228.


