Phong Nguyen is a Lecturer at RMIT University, Vietnam. He holds a PhD degree in Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Phong's research focuses on the ways individuals and collectives respond to organizational change including digital / technology transformation, organizational restructuring, mergers, downsizing, and reengineering, etc. He also explores the impact of workplace characteristics / behaviors (e.g., diveristy, incivility, presenteeism) on organizational outcomes (e.g., performance and innovation). His work has been published in journals like: Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Organizational Psychology Review, and Journal of Business Research.
Dr Phong has served as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. He is also an ad-hoc reviewer for journals like Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Review.
He is among the recipients of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insights Grants 2024 ($208,204) (together with Frances Jorgensen, Adelle Bish, Helen De Cieri, Andrew Dhaenens, and Karin Sanders): Interventions to reduce workplace incivility: The what, why and how?
Selected Publications
Bouckenooghe, D., Schwarz, G. M., Nguyen, P. T., & De Clercq, D. (2025). Person-centered insights into organizational change: Identifying and analyzing profiles using latent profile analysis. Australian Journal of Management, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962251334223.
Nguyen, P. T., Rafferty, A. E., & Xerri, M. J. (2025). The Impact of Personal and Change Event Characteristics on Employee Wellbeing via Uncertainty and Insecurity. Organizational Psychology Review, 20413866251317433.
Nguyen, P., Rafferty, A., & Xerri, M. (2024). The interplay between uncertainty and insecurity and employee wellbeing during planned and emergent changes. In P. Brough, & G. Kinman (Eds.), Wellbeing at Work in a Turbulent Era (pp. 95-113). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781035300549.00010
Nguyen, L. T. M., & Nguyen, P. T. (2024). Determinants of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance adoption-A configurational exploration. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 201, 123244.
Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Bouckenooghe, D., Rafferty, A., & Schwarz, G. (2024). Human resource management system strength in times of crisis. Journal of Business Research, 171, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114365
Jorgensen, F., Bish, A., Sanders, K., & Nguyen, P. (2024). Kick me while I'm down: Modeling employee differences of the impact of workplace incivility on employees' health and wellbeing. Human Resource Management Review, 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2023.100999
Bouckenooghe, D. B., Schwarz, G., Sanders, K., & Nguyen, P. (2023). The multiple faces of collective responses to organizational change: Taking stock and moving forward. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(7), 997-1014. doi:10.1002/job.2738
Nguyen, P. T., & Nguyen, L. T. M. (2022). Understanding platform market value through decentralization governance—An integrative model from signaling and mechanism design theory. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 183, 121913.
Nguyen, P., Sanders, K., Schwarz, G., & Rafferty, A. (2022). The linkage between cognitive diversity and team innovation: Exploring the roles of team humor styles and team emotional intelligence via the conservation of resources theory. Organizational Psychology Review, 12(4), 428-452. doi:10.1177/20413866221114847
Sanders, K., Nguyen, P., Bouckenooghe, D. B., Alannah Rafferty, A. R., & Schwarz, G. (2020). Unraveling the What and How of Organizational Communication to Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic: Adopting an Attributional Lens. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56(3), 289-293. doi:10.1177/0021886320937026
Research fields
3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
350707 Leadership
350701 Corporate governance
350307 Technology management
Supervisor projects
Blockchain governance: taking stock and moving forward
9 Aug 2023
Teaching interests
I have recently taught the following courses:
Understanding the Business Environment
Financial Innovation and Technology Systems
Cryptofinance and Cryptocurrency
Blockchain for Business
Business Statistics
Previous teaching at UNSW, Sydney
Managing and Leading People (2020)
PhD supervion
Topic: Blockchain governance - taking stock and moving forward (principle supervior since 2023)
Research interests
Attitudes toward organizational change
Workplace behaviors and contexts (e.g., diversity, incivility, humor, etc.)