Lihui is a Teaching Fellow based in Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton.
Lihui’s current role is mainly to teach at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level, and to undertake leadership, management and engagement activities. Lihui’s teaching focuses on human resource management, organizational behaviour and other management related areas.
Lihui's research interests are broad and multidisciplinary. As a lifelong learner, Lihui has been reflecting on my personal and professional identity and trying to piece together fragments of life experience into a complete picture. This theme connects his various research interests. His interest in strategic HRM and management in professional service firms comes from his years of experience working as an HR Director in an accounting firm. As an HR practitioner, Lihui firmly believes that good management needs to tackle individual and systemic factors simultaneously. His goal in doing research is to make a difference to management practices by integrating perspectives of organizational behaviour, HRM, and strategy. This type of inquiry integrates a wide range of his research interests including strategic HRM, organizational learning and development, leadership, identity, work-life interaction, and management philosophy. Methodologically, Lihui tends to conduct inductive and qualitative research using methods such as interviews and focus groups. However, he is open to mixed methods that integrate qualitative and quantitative analyses when there is a match with the research question.
As a teacher, Lihui aims to prepare students for a successful career and life. When teaching organizational behaviour and HRM courses in business schools, he aims to help students not only understand how and why individuals behave and interact in a team and organizational systems in certain ways, but also apply relevant skills in their daily work and life. Lihui's teaching experience comes from not only university teaching but also corporate training, where he developed and delivered extensive leadership development programs to new managers and senior managers.
Lihui has more than 10 years of working experience in human resource management roles, with his last full-time HR position as the HR Director, based in Beijing China, in a leading professional service firm. Lihui achieved two master’s degrees (International Business Economics & Educational Studies) from Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and a third master’s degree in Accounting from China. Lihui received his Ph.D. in Management in the spring of 2023 from John Molson School of Business at Concordia University (Canada).