Violet Ho
Associate Professor of Management

Office: WSTN 102-H
Phone: (804) 289-8567
Fax: (804)
Email: vho@richmond.edu

Teaching:
Organizational Behavior
Cross-Cultural Management

Research:
Social networks
Employment and interpersonal relationships
Counterproductive work behaviors

Education:
B.Acc., Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
M.Sc., Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Selected Publications:

Ho, V. T., Wong, S., and Lee, C. H. (in press). A tale of passion: Linking job passion and cognitive engagement to employee work performance. Journal of Management Studies.

Ho, V. T., and Wong, S. (2009). Knowing who knows what and who knows whom: Expertise recognition, network recognition, and individual work performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 82, 147-158.

Ho, V. T. (2008). The roles of instrumental and affective relationships in predicting helping and hindrance behaviors. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Best paper proceedings of the 66th annual meeting of the Academy of Management.

Wong, S., Ho, V. T., and Lee, C. H. (2008). A power perspective to interunit knowledge transfer: Linking knowledge attributes to unit power and the transfer of knowledge. Journal of Management, 34: 127-150.

Rousseau, D. M., Ho, V. T., and Greenberg, J. (2006). I-Deals: Idiosyncratic terms in employment relationships. Academy of Management Review, 31: 977-994.

Ho, V. T. (2005). Social influence on evaluations of psychological contract fulfillment. Academy of Management Review, 30: 113-128.

Ho, V. T., and Levesque, L. L. (2005). With a little help from my friends (and substitutes): Social referents and influence in psychological contract fulfillment. Organization Science, 16: 275-289.

Ho, V. T., Ang, S., and Straub, D. (2003). When subordinates become IT contractors: Persistent managerial expectations in IT outsourcing. Information Systems Research, 14: 66-86. 

Academic and Professional Activities:

Editorial Board, Journal of Organizational Behavior

Area Editor, Journal of Asia Business Studies

Awards:

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management (2009)

Mentored Case Award and First Time Submission Award (with L.L. Levesque and D.M. Rousseau), Eastern Academy of Management (2006)

Researcher of the Division Award, Division of Strategy, Management and Organization, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (2005, 2006)

Best Paper Based on a Dissertation Award, Organizational Behavior Division, Academy of Management (2003)

Finalist for William H. Newman Award, Academy of Management (2003)

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