Areas of Focus
- Management Psychology
- Leadership Emergence and Effectiveness
- Leadership Development
- Human Resource Management and Development
- Organizational Development (OD) and Talent Development (TD)
Work Experience
- 2010-2015 - Talent Management and Leadership Development at Management Consulting Company and Group HR Department
- 2020-Present - Distinguished Researcher and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010 - Master's Degree in Psychology: Beijing Normal University
- 2020 - PhD in Developmental Psychology: Beijing Normal University
- Visiting Scholar at Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
Publications
- Being a Parent Helps Being a Benevolent Leader: A Mixed-method Approach, Liu, Z. G., Liang, Z. K., Wang, C., Bian, W. J., 2024
- Leadership Blossoms in Parental Warmth: Positive Parenting Practices Shape Adolescent Leader Emergence, Liu, Z. G., Bian, W. J., Bian, Y. F., 2024
- Connecting the Dots: How Original and Current Social Status Shape Individuals’ Transformational Leadership, Duan J.Y., Ren X.Y., Liu, Z.G., Riggio, R. E., 2022
- Everyday Leadership: The Construct, Its Validation, and Developmental Antecedents, Liu, Z.G., Riggio, R. E., Reichard, R. J., & Walker, D. O., 2022
- Leader Development Across the Lifespan: A Dynamic Experiences-grounded Approach, Liu, Z.G., Venkatesh, S., Murphy, S.E., & Riggio, R.E., 2021
- Leader Development Begins at Home: Over-Parenting Harms Adolescent Leader Emergence, Liu, Z.G., Riggio, R. E., Day, D. V., Zheng, C., Dai, S., & Bian, Y., 2019
- What is wrong with leadership development and what might be done about it?, Day, D. V. & Liu, Z.G., 2019
- Everyday Leadership and Engaged Followership: Two Sides of the Same Construct, Riggio, R.E, Liu, Z.G., Reichard, R. J., & Walker, D. O., 2020
- Psychometric properties of the Chinese shortened version of the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire in a Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults, Wang, D., Hu, M., Zheng, C., & Liu, Z.G., 2017
- 当父母有助于成为好领导?基于“父母-领导增益”视角的领导力发展探究, 刘争光,李梦吟, 2024
- 危机领导力的概念模型构建:基于中国机长刘传健案例的质性研究, 郑晓明,郭一蓉,刘争光, 2021
- 天才论还是英才说:基于生命全程视角下的领导力发展, 刘争光,郑晓明, 2020
- 个体领导力早期发展及家庭因素的作用, 刘争光,孙丽萍,边玉芳, 2016
- 结构化面试预测效度的贡献成分分析, 徐长江,梁崇理,刘争光, 2013
Awards
- 2022 - Third Prize in Zhejiang University Ideological and Political Micro-lecture Competition
- 2022 - Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University
- 2022 - Excellent 'Friend of Freshmen' at Zhejiang University
- 2022 - Excellent Class Advisor at Zhejiang University