Vivien Lim is Professor, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS), Yong Loo Lin Medical School, NUS and Dept of Management and Organisation, NUS Business School (joint Appointment). She is co-director of the Doctorate in Nursing Practice Program offered by ALCNS. Dr Lim obtained her PhD in the area of Organizational Behavior from the University of Pittsburgh. She was the first woman to be promoted to full professor at NUS Business School. She is also Professor (Courtesy Appointment) at the Institute for Engineering Leadership, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, College of Design and Engineering, as well as Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Dr Lim’s expertise is in the areas of leadership, workplace health, job loss, employee misbehaviours and discipline, and the impact of technology on the workplace. She has published in refereed journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Organizational Behavior among others. Her research has been widely cited by media such as The Straits Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CBS, ABC networks, and practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review.
Dr Lim is the recipient of numerous research awards at the faculty and international levels. She is ranked among the top 2% of social scientists in the world in a study conducted by Stanford University from 2020-present. She was the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Psychology: An International Review (2010-2015) and is currently a member of the journal’s advisory panel. She had served on the editorial boards of Journal of Management and Academy of Management Perspectives.
She is an accomplished educator and mentor as evident from her teaching awards and commendations at the departmental, faculty, & university levels. In 2014, she was placed on the University’s Teaching Honour Roll in recognition of her teaching accomplishments.
Dr Lim was on the Management Board of Human Capital Singapore (HCS). She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Singapore Anglican Community Services (SACS) Institute of Learning. She is also Director of the NUS Leading and Motivating Difficult Employees, Women in Leadership, and Emerging Leaders Programs. She is actively involved in consultancy as well as training programs for major private and public institutions.