SUSS Human Capital Insights Series: Leading People in the Age of Disruption: Insights from China

Synopsis

China's organisations have navigated one of the most rapid and far-reaching transformations in modern management history. This has fundamentally altered how they lead, develop and retain people in an environment of accelerating technological change and shifting workforce expectations. Drawing on decades of research on leadership effectiveness, strategic human resource management and organisational behaviour in Chinese enterprises, Professor James Jianmin Sun examines what this experience reveals about the relationship between people management and organisational resilience. His presentation will explore the leadership practices and HR strategies that have proven most effective in Chinese organisations, and what leaders and policymakers in Singapore and the region can draw from that experience as they navigate their own workforce challenges.

Speaker

Professor James Jianmin Sun is Distinguished Academic Professor and Wu Yuchang Senior Chair Professor at the School of Labour and Human Resources, Renmin University of China. A Fellow of the Society for Industrial-Organisational Psychology (SIOP) and recipient of the Dave Ulrich HR Impact Award, he is one of China’s most influential scholars in human resource management and leadership development. His research spans strategic HRM, leadership assessment, cross-cultural management and organisational behaviour. He serves as Associate Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal and the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and has trained over 100,000 HR professionals across China and internationally.

Moderator

Dr Shan Wen (Vivien) is a Senior Lecturer in the Human Resource Management Programme at the S R Nathan School of Human Development, Singapore University of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from Nanyang Technological University. Her research examines how culture shapes gender differences, negotiation and social judgements, with implications for fairness and inclusion in organisations. Her work has appeared in American Psychologist, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Development International. Her current research also explores cultural and algorithmic bias in recruitment and responsible AI use in human resource management.

Leading Human Capital, Shaping Tomorrow's Economy

The SUSS Human Capital Insights series provides thought leadership on the key trends and strategic imperatives reshaping Asia's human capital landscape. The series is organised by the SUSS Human Resource Management Programme, which offers undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, from the Bachelor of Human Resource Management—Singapore's first and only full-time bachelor's degree in HRM offered by an Autonomous University—to the Master of Human Capital Management. Our programmes are designed to equip HR professionals with the applied industry knowledge and strategic acumen needed to lead, innovate, and thrive in the future economy.

Learn more at: https://www.suss.edu.sg/academics/schools-college/nshd/human-resource-management-cluster