Hock-Peng Sin, Ph.D.

Dr. Hock-Peng Sin is a Professor and Alvah Chapman Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair at Florida International University in the Department of Global Leadership and Management. He also serves as the faculty director of the International MBA program since 2017. With the leadership from the Dean’s office as well as the hard work and dedication of the faculty, staff, and students from the program, the IMBA program has been ranked #12 in 2019, #8 in 2020, #3 in 2021, #5 in 2022, #4 in 2023, and #7 in 2024 (five consecutive years of top 10 ranking) by the U.S. News & World Report. In addition, HP serves as the Ph.D. program director for the department of GLAM since 2018. Recent graduates of the Ph.D. program have consistently been placed at top research universities in the U.S. Dr. Sin received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.

His research areas include leadership (e.g., leader-member exchange and leadership development), management of dynamic performance, as well as multi-level methodology in organizational research. Dr. Sin has published more than twenty articles and book chapters including several publications in premier outlets such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal. His research has garnered over 4,800 scholarly citations according to the Google Scholar index. He regularly reviews for numerous academic journals and currently serves or has served as editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. He is also the recipient of several best paper awards.

Dr. Sin has received several teaching awards. He teaches organizational behavior and human resource management courses at the undergraduate-, MBA-, MSHRM-, and PhD-levels. In addition, he also regularly conducts executive training on strategic leadership, traps in decision making, and 360-degree executive feedback at the leadership development programs through the Center for Leadership at FIU.