Associate Professor Huong Le is the HRM Discipline Leader at the School of Business and Law, CQUniversity, Australia (Melbourne campus). Since obtaining her Ph.D. from The University of Sydney with scholarships from AusAID and The University of Sydney, she has developed a broad range of work experience, including a Research Fellowship and Lectureship at Deakin University, and a Policy Officer role at the NSW Department of Education and Training in Sydney.
Dr Le received the Best Paper Award in the Careers/Social Issues/Diversity Issues/Ethics Track (Track 5), the 2022 Southern Management Association (SMA) Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, for the paper titled "Proactive skill development and work performance: The effects of career stress and decidedness" and the Best Faculty Proposal Award, from Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division, the 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, for the paper titled “How does the mental process of building cultural capabilities contribute to employees’ well-being? A leader-member exchange perspective”.
A/Professor Le's current research expertise includes workforce diversity, diversity and inclusion, workforce development, employee well-being, turnover and retention, and career management. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Vocational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management Review, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, among others. Huong was awarded Visiting Research Fellowships with Drexel University (US), The University of Sheffield (UK), The University of Sydney, The University of Melbourne, and the University of Wollongong (Australia).
Huong is the recipient of multiple competitive grants from the Department of Health (Victoria), the Queensland Resources Council, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the IMPACT Perpetual grant, the Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Program Fostering Integration Grants, and numerous other internal research grants. She also completed several consultancy projects for the Western Australian and Victorian governments.
Huong serves as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (A*, ABDC), European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (A, ABDC), and Australian Journal of Management (A, ABDC). She is an ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, British Journal of Management, HRM Review, International Journal of HRM, HRM Journal, Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Manpower, International Journal of Stress Management, Personnel Review, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, International Migration, Asia Pacific Journal of HRM, European Journal of Management, European Management Review, and Project Management Journal. Huong is the Guest Editor for two Special Issues: 1) Project Management Journal (2024 - 2025). Human Resource Challenges of Leading Sustainable Projects with Diversity and Inclusion During Turbulent Times (Q1; Impact Factor: 5.7) (with Shazia Nauman, Connie Zheng) and 2) Sustainability titled “Social Sustainability in Times of Crisis: Putting People’s Happiness First" (2022 – 2023) (Q1; Impact Factor: 3.8) (with Amlan Haque and Nadeera Ranabahu).
Dr Le has successfully supervised full-time Ph.D., Master's, and Bachelor's (Honors) students to on-time completion when she was at Deakin University. Currently, she supervises four RHD students at CQUniversity.
SELECTED PROCEEDINGS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED TALKS
PhD and Graduate Diploma, The University of Sydney
Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University
Deakin University, Deakin Business School (2008 - 2022)
Impact
My article titled “Inclusion and affective well-being: Roles of justice perceptions" (2018) in Personnel Review (https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PR-03-2017-0078/full/html) has a very high Altmetric score (139). This article has received widespread media attention, being cited in at least 16 major news outlets (e.g., Government Executive, Business Insider, MSN). The significant number of citations across publications positions this piece among the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (2021) - the most widely referenced articles on this topic discussing the death of George Floyd.
Media release
Huong was interviewed by ABC Tropical North, ABC North Queensland, ABC Capricornia on 9 February 2024 on the new bill the “Right to Disconnect”.
Media release on Queensland Resources Council's Workforce project
1) Research project makes welcome mat for diversity in mining and energy
2) Research project boosts diversity in mining and energy
Huong taught units/courses in HRM, Organizational Behavior, and Management.
Huong was a Policy Officer and Acting Senior Policy Officer in the Research Unit, the NSW Department of Education and Training (2005 - 2007), Sydney.
Grants and funded projects
• 2023 A recipient of a grant from the Queensland State Government - the Workforce Connect Fund, Queensland Department of Trade, Employment and Training in partnership with the Queensland Resources Council for a project titled Resources W.I.D.E (Workforce Inclusion & Diversity Engagement). ($103,000). (with Amarakoon, U.)
• 2022 A recipient of a competitive grant - Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Grants Program from the Victorian Government, Department of Health for a project titled Empowering mental health literacy in Vietnamese women through digital inclusion ($128,926) (with Deem, J., Lambropoulos, V., Price L.)
• 2021, A recipient of a competitive grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for a project titled "Women entrepreneurs in Australia and Vietnam: Building capacity, building relationships". ($57,000) (with North-Samardzic A. and Pyman A.) (Deakin University)
• 2020, A recipient of a Perpetual Grant, IMPACT for a project titled “Evaluation of an intergenerational program involving Year 10 students and residents in an aged care home in regional Australia”. Mercy Care, Victoria. ($118,700) (with Laging, B., and Radford, K.) (Deakin University)
• 2019, A recipient of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Program Fostering Integration Grants, for a project titled "Preparing tertiary students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant communities for careers in regional areas". ($48,448) (with Alexander Newman, Fara Azmat, Joe Jiang, Siewmee Barton, & Ahmed Ferdous) (Deakin University)
• 2012, A recipient of Bowater Trust Grant for a project titled "International student experience in regards to university support services" ($8,100) (with Rodney Arambewela) (Deakin University)
• 2011, A recipient of the Central Research Grants Scheme (CRGS), Deakin University, for a project titled "Diversity Justice Management and Social Inclusion" ($14,000) (with Yuka Fujimoto)
• 2010, A recipient of Faculty Research Grant, Deakin University, for a project titled "A participatory model for ethnic audience development for the arts" ($10,000) (with Yuka Fujimoto)
• 2008, A recipient of Faculty of Business and Law research funding, Deakin University for a project titled ‘Social inclusion, diversity management and people with disability’ (Huong Le $7500).
Selected Journal Articles
Dr Le is the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Organizational Psychology (new journal)
Huong also serves as the Editorial Board member of the following journals:
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
Human resources and industrial relations - Employment equity and diversity
Human resources and industrial relations - Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour not elsewhere classified