Le (Betty) Zhou

Le (Betty) Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Work and Organizations and a Lawrence Fellow in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Betty received her Ph.D. in Management at the University of Florida in 2014. She has an M.S. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Psychology from Peking University (China). Her research interests include team leadership, self-regulation at work, and quantitative research methods. Her work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Research Methods. Her studies focus on how individuals and higher-level organizational units (e.g., work groups, organizations) influence each other as well as how behaviors change over time within individuals. She uses a diverse set of research approaches, including laboratory experiments, field surveys, archival data analysis, and computational modeling. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Discoveries, and Journal of Business and Psychology. She teaches the freshman contemporary management course (MGMT 1001). She is an elected officer of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management (representative-at-large, 2018-2021; chair track, 2021-2025).