Zhenyu Yuan

Zhenyu Yuan is an associate professor of management at the University of Oklahoma. He studies job stress, employee well-being and workplace relationships, and uses meta-analysis to synthesize research findings. He previously held a faculty position at the University of Illinois Chicago.

With Jingfeng Yin and Jiaqing Sun, Yuan coauthored a meta-analysis of team conflict and performance. Across the studies examined, task, relationship, process and status conflict each had a negative average association with team performance. The associations for task and relationship conflict varied substantially across situations. The findings do not establish that every disagreement harms a team.