He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees, both in management, from the Renmin University of China and his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include leadership with a focus on servant leadership, antecedents and outcomes of creativity in the workplace, and multilevel research in work teams. His research in the above areas has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Leadership Quarterly, among others. His most recent research investigated the dynamic effects of servant leadership and the effectiveness of servant leadership in work teams.