David Chan - How Working Together Matters

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HOW WORKING TOGETHER MATTERS
Adversity, Aspiration, Action

Copyright 2018 by David Chan and the Contributors

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To all who want to co-create solutions that
make a positive difference in peoples lives.

David Chan received his PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University. He is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Behavioural Sciences Institute at the Singapore Management University (SMU). He is a recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship Award for Research Excellence. He is also Adjunct Principal Scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Co-Director of the Centre for Technology and Social-Behavioural Insights which is jointly established by A*STAR and SMU. He was formerly Deputy Provost of SMU, Deputy Director of Wharton-SMU Research Centre, and the founding Interim Dean of the SMU School of Social Sciences.

Professor Chans research includes areas in longitudinal modeling, personnel selection, adaptation to changes at work, and subjective well-being. His works have been published in top psychology, management, and methods journals such as Applied Psychological Measurement, Cognition, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Human Performance, International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personnel Psychology, and Professional Psychology. He has authored or edited 11 books published by Routledge, Sage, and World Scientific in the areas of adaptability, personnel selection, liveability, positivity, social futures, psychological capital, unintended consequences, public trust, and social, political and psychological issues in Singapore.

In 2000, Professor Chan was ranked 9th world-wide in the Top 100 most published researchers of the 1990s in the top journals of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. His works have been cited several thousand times in various disciplines. He has received several international scholarly awards including the Edwin Ghiselli Award for Innovative Research Design, the William Owen Scholarly Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Dissertation Research Award from the American Psychological Association.

He has served as Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Advisory Editor for Oxford Bibliographies (Management) published by the Oxford University Press, member on editorial boards of several journals and reviewer for several grant agencies in United States, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Professor Chan is consultant to numerous public and private sector organizations in Singapore; a member of the Social Science Research Council, the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), the Diabetes Prevention and Care Taskforce, the Singapore-Japan Joint Committee on Science and Technology, and the International Panel of Experts and Research and Development Advisory Panel for the Urban Redevelopment Authority; a director on the Board of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre; and Chairman of the International Advisory Panel to the NCPG & National Addictions Management Service. He has also previously served as a member of Public Hygiene Council, the International Advisory Panel for the SkillsFuture Singapore and the Workforce Singapore, the Governing Board for the Workplace Safety and Health Institute, the Research Advisory Panel for the National Population and Talent Division, and a director on the Board of the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority and the Board of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises.

He is a recipient of the Long Service Volunteer Award and the Outstanding Volunteer Award from the Ministry of Social and Family Development, the Long Service Volunteer Award and the Special Recognition Honour by the Ministry of Home Affairs for outstanding contributions to the Home Team in the field of psychology, the Medallion Award for Distinguished Service from the Ministry of National Development, and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) which is a National Day Award presented by the President of the Republic of Singapore.

Professor Chan writes op-ed articles in The Straits Times By Invitation Series, which is a regular newspaper column on social issues. He appears regularly on Channel NewsAsia current affairs television programmes and he is the consultant to the Channel News Asias Social Experiment, which is a 5-part programme series that examines human behaviours and social phenomena using scientific experiments, as well as Days of Disasters, which is a 5-part documentary series that examines the lessons learned from previous disasters in Singapore.

Together with Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Daniel Kahneman and Professor Ed Diener, Professor Chan served on an international committee that submitted to the United Nations a report on measures of national well-being across countries. He is the first scientist in the world to receive Elected Fellow status of all six international psychological organizations namely, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association of Applied Psychology, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Associations Division for Personality and Social Psychology.

David Chan is Professor of Psychology & Director of the Behavioural Sciences Institute at the Singapore Management University and Adjunct Principal Scientist at A*STAR. He has received numerous international awards on scientific contributions and his works have been cited several thousand times in various disciplines. He has served as Editor or board member on numerous journals. He is advisor, consultant or board member to various organisations in the public, private and people sectors both locally and internationally, and the first scientist in the world to receive Elected Fellow status of all six international psychological organisations.