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Business and Management

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60
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13714
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550
National Ranking
244

Psychology

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60
Citations
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3546
National Ranking
1995

Overview

Thomas Li-Ping Tang is affiliated with Middle Tennessee State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, and Psychology. The scientist's publication record reflects a multidisciplinary approach incorporating elements of demography, social psychology, sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, and accounting.

Their frequent research themes include workplace spirituality and leadership, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, decision-making and behavioral economics, ethics in business and education, experimental behavioral economics studies, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Their published research includes papers appearing in frequently chosen venues such as the Asian Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Academy of Management Proceedings.

  • Asian Journal of Business Ethics
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility
  • Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Selected recent papers illustrate the range of the scientist's research interests:

  • "Do ethical leaders enhance employee ethical behaviors?" (2022), published in Asian Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Mindfulness Reduces Avaricious Monetary Attitudes and Enhances Ethical Consumer Beliefs: Mindfulness Training, Timing, and Practicing Matter" (2020), published in Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Religious Beliefs Inspire Sustainable HOPE (Help Ourselves Protect the Environment): Culture, Religion, Dogma, and Liturgy-The Matthew Effect in Religious Social Responsibility" (2022), published in Journal of Business Ethics
  • "The Matthew effect in talent management strategy: reducing exhaustion, increasing satisfaction, and inspiring commission among boundary spanning employees" (2021), published in Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing
  • "Behavioral economics and monetary wisdom: A cross-level analysis of monetary aspiration, pay (dis)satisfaction, risk perception, and corruption in 32 nations" (2023), published in Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility

Thomas Li-Ping Tang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jingqiu Chen, Ningyu Tang, Élodie Gentina, Mehmet Ferhat Özbek, and Toto Sutarso.

  • Jingqiu Chen
  • Ningyu Tang
  • Élodie Gentina
  • Mehmet Ferhat Özbek
  • Toto Sutarso

The scientist also has a record of book publication with the White Rose University Consortium, having authored "Conducting Participatory Arts Projects: A Practical Toolkit" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The meaning of money revisited

    Thomas Li‐Ping Tang

  • An Examination of Organizational Trust Antecedents

    Jacqueline A. Gilbert;Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • Income, money ethic, pay satisfaction, commitment, and unethical behavior: Is the love of money the root of evil for Hong Kong employees?

    Thomas Li Ping Tang;Randy K Chiu

  • Distributive and Procedural Justice as Related to Satisfaction and Commitment.

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Linda J. Sarsfield-Baldwin

  • Job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): Does team commitment make a difference in self‐directed teams?

    David A. Foote;Thomas Li‐Ping Tang

  • Intelligence Vs. Wisdom: The Love of Money, Machiavellianism, and Unethical Behavior across College Major and Gender.

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Yuh-Jia Chen

  • Does moral leadership enhance employee creativity? Employee identification with leader and leader–member exchange (LMX) in the Chinese context.

    Qinxuan Gu;Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Wan Jiang

  • The development of a short Money Ethic Scale: Attitudes toward money and pay satisfaction revisited

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • Retaining and motivating employees

    Randy K. Chiu;Vivienne Wai‐Mei Luk;Thomas Li‐Ping Tang

  • Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior Revisited: Public Personnel in the United States and in the Middle East

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Abdul Hamid Safwat Ibrahim

  • Does attitude toward money moderate the relationship between intrinsic job satisfaction and voluntary turnover

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Jwa K. Kim;David Shin-Hsiung Tang

  • The meaning of money: Extension and exploration of the money ethic scale in a sample of university students in Taiwan

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • Income and Quality of Life: Does the Love of Money Make a Difference?

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • Attitudes toward money as related to intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, stress and work-related attitudes

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Pamela R. Gilbert

  • Does the Love of Money Moderate the Relationship between Public Service Motivation and Job Satisfaction? The Case of Chinese Professionals in the Public Sector

    Bang-Cheng Liu;Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • Bad apples in bad (business) barrels: The love of money, machiavellianism, risk tolerance, and unethical behavior

    Thomas Li‐Ping Tang;Yuh‐Jia Chen;Toto Sutarso

  • Students' perceptions of teaching technologies, application of technologies, and academic performance

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;M. Jill Austin

  • Attitude toward and Propensity to Engage in Unethical Behavior: Measurement Invariance across Major among University Students

    Yuh-Jia Chen;Thomas Li-Ping Tang

  • The Effects of Hardiness, Police Stress, and Life Stress on Police Officers' Illness and Absenteeism

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Monty L. Hammontree

  • To Help or Not to Help? The Good Samaritan Effect and the Love of Money on Helping Behavior

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Toto Sutarso;Grace Mei-Tzu Wu Davis;Dariusz Dolinski

  • Love of Money and Unethical Behavior Intention: Does an Authentic Supervisor's Personal Integrity and Character (ASPIRE) Make a Difference?

    Thomas Li-Ping Tang;Hsi Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Vivien K. G. Lim
Vivien K. G. Lim National University of Singapore
Thompson S. H. Teo
Thompson S. H. Teo National University of Singapore
Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham BI Norwegian Business School
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
David Lester
David Lester Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

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