Jason L. Huang

• Director
• Professor

• PhD, Michigan State University, Organizational Psychology
• M.A., Michigan State University, Organizational Psychology
• M.A., The University of Tulsa, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• B.A., Southeast University, China, Major: English; Minor: Business Administration

• South Kedzie Hall
• 368 Farm Lane, Room S403
• East Lansing, MI 48824
• (517) 355-1801
• huangjl@msu.edu

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AREA OF EXPERTISE

Employee selection and assessment, training and development, adaptive performance, and psychological measurement.

BIOSKETCH

Jason Huang is Professor and Director of the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science.

Professor Huang's research examines how individuals learn, adapt, and sustain performance as work evolves. His work spans two primary research streams. The first investigates learning, adaptability, and performance in changing work, focusing on how individuals acquire, transfer, and maintain skills and behaviors as work demands shift. This research integrates topics such as training and development, informal learning, and adaptive performance. The second stream examines individual differences and work contexts shaping adaptation, including research on personality, motivation, leadership, work–family dynamics, and nonstandard work arrangements such as gig work.

Complementing these substantive areas, Professor Huang conducts methodological research on response effort in surveys and tests, particularly insufficient effort responding (IER), and its implications for data quality and valid inference in organizational research.

Professor Huang has published extensively in leading scholarly journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His research has received multiple recognitions, including the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance, and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. His research has been funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the SHRM Foundation. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Since joining Michigan State University in 2015, Professor Huang has taught graduate courses in quantitative methods for HR analysis, HR analytics, and training and development, as well as an undergraduate course on research methods and analysis.