Christina Li

Professor Christina S. Li received her PhD from the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on understanding how employees navigate their work and career environments, examining the characteristics that individuals deem essential for fitting in at work, the experience of misfit, the actions individuals use to maintain fit or alter misfit, and how fit happens in different types of careers (e.g., unconventional ones). She employs a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to integrate person–environment fit research with other areas of management research. She teaches courses in the areas of management, negotiations/conflict, leadership, and organizational behavior. Prior to 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. Prior to academia, she was also in finance and banking.

• Best Doctoral Paper in Careers/Social Issues/Diversity Issues/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 PhD Teaching Award Finalist, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, 2017

^*Denotes equal authorship/contribution. ^†Denotes PhD student collaborator when project was initiated.

^*Zhang, Q., ^*Li, C. S., Goering, D., & 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., & ^†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., & 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. & Li, C. S. (2021). Putting Common Career Advice to the Test. Harvard Business Review online. https://hbr.org/2021/10/putting-common-career-advice-to-the-test

^*Zheng, X., ^*†Wu, B., ^*Li, C. S., Zhang, P., & 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., & ^†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., & Schneider, B. (2017). Fitting in and doing good: A review of person-environment fit and OCB research. In Podsakoff, MacKenzie & Podsakoff (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Oxford University Press.

Kristof-Brown, A. L. & Li, C. S. (2017). Person-Environment fit. In R. Griffin (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Management.