Christina Li

Assistant Professor of Management

christina.s.li@ou.edu
(405) 325-2651

About Li

Professor Christina S. Li earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on how employees navigate their work and career environments, including the characteristics individuals consider essential for fitting in at work, the experience of misfit, the actions they take to maintain fit or address misfit, and how fit occurs in different types of careers, such as unconventional ones. She uses a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods to integrate person–environment fit research with other areas of management research.

Li teaches courses in management, negotiations and conflict, leadership, and organizational behavior. Before joining Price College, she was a faculty member at Southern Methodist University. In addition to her academic work, she has consulted for local, national, and international organizations. Before her academic career, she worked in finance and banking.

Publications

Zhang, Q., Li, C. S., Goering, D., and Kristof-Brown, A. L. (2024). Fitting in a workgroup in unique ways: A latent profile analysis of perceived person-group fit characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(5), 779–794.

Li, C. S., Liao, H., and Han, Y. (2022). I despise but also envy you: A dyadic investigation of perceived overqualification, perceived relative qualification, and knowledge hiding. Personnel Psychology, 75(1), 91–118.

Li, C. S., Goering, D., Montanye, M. R., and Su, R. (2022). Understanding the career and job outcomes of contemporary career attitudes within the context of career environments: An integrative meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(2), 286–309.

Goering, D. D., and Li, C. S. (2021). Putting common career advice to the test. Harvard Business Review Online.

Zheng, X., Wu, B., Li, C. S., Zhang, P., and Tang, N. (2021). Reversing the Pollyanna: The curvilinear relationships between core self-evaluations and perceived social acceptance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 103–115.

View more of Li's publications

Zhang, Q., Li, C. S., Goering, D., and Kristof-Brown, A. L. (2024). Fitting in a workgroup in unique ways: A latent profile analysis of perceived person-group fit characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(5), 779–794.
Li, C. S., Liao, H., and Han, Y. (2022). I despise but also envy you: A dyadic investigation of perceived overqualification, perceived relative qualification, and knowledge hiding. Personnel Psychology, 75(1), 91–118.
Li, C. S., Goering, D., Montanye, M. R., and Su, R. (2022). Understanding the career and job outcomes of contemporary career attitudes within the context of career environments: An integrative meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(2), 286–309.
Goering, D. D., and Li, C. S. (2021). Putting common career advice to the test. Harvard Business Review Online. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2021/10/putting-common-career-advice-to-the-test
Zheng, X., Wu, B., Li, C. S., Zhang, P., and Tang, N. (2021). Reversing the Pollyanna: The curvilinear relationships between core self-evaluations and perceived social acceptance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 103–115.
Li, C. S., Kristof-Brown, A. L., and Nielsen, J. D. (2019). Fitting in a group: Theoretical development and validation of the multidimensional perceived person–group fit scale. Personnel Psychology, 72(1), 139–171.
Kristof-Brown, A. L., Li, C. S., and Schneider, B. (2017). Fitting in and doing good: A review of person-environment fit and OCB research. In Podsakoff, MacKenzie, and Podsakoff (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Oxford University Press.
Kristof-Brown, A. L., and Li, C. S. (2017). Person-environment fit. In R. Griffin (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Management.

Awards

Best Doctoral Paper in Careers, Social Issues, Diversity Issues, and Ethics Track, Southern Management Association Conference, 2019
SIOP Benjamin Schneider Scholarship by the Macey Fund Dissertation Award, 2019
First Prize Paper in Professional Studies, Jakobsen Conference, University of Iowa, 2019
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, University of Iowa, fall 2018
M&O Ph.D. Teaching Award Finalist, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, 2017

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