ABOUT ME
Greg A. Chung-Yan, PhD
Dr. Greg Chung-Yan
received his BA in
psychology from York
University and his MA and
PhD in Industrial-
Organizational Psychology
from the University of
Guelph. (He also has an
electronics technician
diploma for some reason).
After a brief tenure as a
sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph
teaching statistics, psychological measurement, I-O
psychology, and human resources management, he
joined the faculty at the University of Windsor in
2006. He is currently an Associate Professor in the
Applied Social Psychology Program.
His research looks at the impact of workplace
person-environment fit on health and well-being.
Topics include: work stress and coping; adapting to
different job demands and characteristics; worker
proactivity and autonomy; work conflict; and bias
and fairness in employee appraisals. He is also the
Research Director of the Occupational Health and
Well-Being Research Group. His research appears
in such journals as the Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, the Journal of Occupational
Health Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational
and Organizational Psychology.
Outside of academia, he’s worked with the Public
Service Commission of Canada, the Assessment
Centre for Executive Appointment, Organization
and Management Solutions, and Human Systems
Incorporated.
He’s is the former Chair of the Committee on
Participant Recruitment, which oversees the
Department of Psychology’s Participant Pool; and
the former Director of the Applied Social
Psychology Training Committee, which oversees
graduate student practica and internships.
He served as the Department Head of Psychology
from 2013 to 2016 and was the Acting-Dean of the
Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (for
3 whole days). He’s now the Chair of the University
of Windsor’s Program Development Committee
(PDC).
Even though some of his best friends are
management consultants, he’s not quite as
energized by the enterprise as he used to be. His
latest epiphany is that he’d rather help students,
junior colleagues, and people struggling with
existential career issues. Unfortunately, the Globe
and Mail has stopped calling him for advice, so he’s
taken up blogging--sharing his unconventional
wisdom with students.