Professor LAM Ho Wa Hodar

Hodar Lam received his PhD in Organisational Behaviour at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). Before joining Lingnan University, he was an Assistant Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at University of Amsterdam, where he obtained the Dutch University Teaching Qualification (Basiskwailificatie Onderwijs; BKO). He is the Chair of the Division of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, The Hong Kong Psychological Society.

With an industry background in human resources management and counselling, Hodar’s research focuses on emotion and well-being issues (especially loneliness and solitude) in leadership and work contexts. He has contributed knowledge to industry-oriented outlets, such as Forbes, QS Top Universities, and I/O at Work, and delivered webinars and podcasts about loneliness, leadership, well-being at work, and mental health, including:

• Het Parool Interview: Leaders do not talk about their loneliness
  https://bit.ly/3T1ZmT0
• Popping Bubbles Podcast: We need to talk about well-being in teams! https://youtu.be/of59QQWoGXQ
• Folia Interview: Mindfulness helps against my anxiety disorder. https://youtu.be/gQcIOiu5bfg
• RSM Podcast: Loneliness in leadership https://spoti.fi/39EjLsf
• QS TopUniversities.com Interview: Experts reveal how to overcome COVID-19 loneliness at university https://bit.ly/2JcBwnS
• RSM Webinar: Understanding loneliness at work during COVID-19 and in the future https://youtu.be/vNZf5Utrvso

Research

• Loneliness & solitude
• Leadership
• Leader-follower relationships
• Emotions at work
• Well-being interventions

Publications

Thesis

Lam, H. H. W. (2023). Lonely-ship: The emergence and experience of leader loneliness [PhD Thesis]. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lam, H., Giessner, S. R., Shemla, M., & Werner, M. D. (2024). Leader and leadership loneliness: A review-based critique and path to future research. The Leadership Quarterly, 101780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101780

Monzani, L., Bibic, K., Haslam, S. A., …, Lam, H., et al. (2024). Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952 

van Dierendonck, D., & Lam, H. (2023). Interventions to enhance eudaemonic psychological well‐being: A meta‐analytic review with Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Well‐being. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 15(2), 594-610. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12398

van Dick, R., Cordes, B. L., Lemoine, J. E., Lam, H., et al. (2021). Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 12081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081

Affum-Osei, E., Goto, S. G., Yeung, J. C., Wang, R., Lam, H., Inusah A-N., & Chan D. K-S. (2021). Examining the factorial validity of the entrepreneurial career motives scale: A five-nation comparison. Journal of Career Development, 48(5), 715-732. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845319898870

Practice-Oriented Articles

Lam, H. (13/09/2022). Well-being interventions can help us grow stronger. University of Amsterdam. https://bit.ly/47deYtv

Lam, H. (17/06/2020). Lonely at the top? Try the middle! In H. Leroy, V. Ohms, & D. Stam (Eds.), RSM Discovery 38: Focus on Leadership (pp. 19-21). Rotterdam: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Online version at https://bit.ly/3dQU8E7

Lam, H., Giessner, S. R., & Shemla, M. (17/06/2020). How to combat loneliness caused by COVID-19 crisis. Business Impact by Business Graduate Association. https://bit.ly/2YJMbLW

Lam, H., Giessner, S. R., & Shemla, M. (08/05/2020). Four simple ways to combat the loneliness caused by COVID-19. Forbes. https://bit.ly/2Ww99n6

Lam, H., Giessner, S. R., & Shemla, M. (27/03/2020). Tips: Loneliness and working from home during the COVID-19 crisis. RSM Discovery. https://bit.ly/2wEsedW

Lam, H. (06/10/2014). The connection between exhaustion & psychological detachment from work. I/O at Work. https://bit.ly/33OeaLa

Selected Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Lam, H., Markus, J. J., Ren, D., & Darouei, M. Cold but competent: The paradoxical effects of solitude expression on social reputation at work (* Finalist, Best Science Presentation Award). European Association of Work & Organisational Psychology Congress 2023, Katowice, Poland, 24-27/05/2023.

Lam, H., & Darouei, M. Disconnectedness at work: Conversations to connect theories and empirics. Symposium organised at the 82^nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, USA, 05-09/08/2022. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.12236symposium

Ingram, K. E., Lam, H., & Lim, J. Techniques for increasing meaningful connections in the remote learning environment. 81^st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 29/07-04/08/2021.

Lam, H., & Shemla, M. Why do powerful leaders feel less lonely? Upward self-disclosure as a mechanism to reduce leader loneliness. 79^th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, USA, 09-13/08/2019. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.10232abstract

Lam, H., Werner, M. D., & Giessner, S. R. Lonely, but not alone: Hidden and stigmatised experiences of leader loneliness in the workplace. 34^th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Tallinn, Estonia, 05-07/07/2018

Teaching Subjects

Academic Year:  2023 - 2024: