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Lixun Zheng is a rising scholar in organizational behavior and human-robot interaction, whose work critically examines the psychological and managerial consequences of workplace automation. Her research focuses on the dark side of employee collaboration with robots, challenging the prevailing narrative that human-robot teamwork is universally beneficial. In her highly cited 2023 paper, "The Dark Side of Employee Collaboration with Robots" (36 citations), Zheng reveals how such collaboration can threaten employees' self-esteem and lead to burnout, offering a crucial counterpoint to efficiency-focused literature. She further explores how leaders inflate performance ratings for robot-using employees (2024, 11 citations), uncovering biases in performance evaluation that emerge from human-robot value co-creation. Most recently, her 2025 work on leaders’ human–robot comparison behavior and subordinate counterproductive work behavior, grounded in dehumanization theory, shows how supervisors’ comparisons between humans and robots can trigger harmful workplace dynamics. Zheng’s contributions are vital for understanding the unintended psychological costs of automation, making her a key voice for students and researchers interested in the future of work, leadership, and employee well-being in increasingly robotic workplaces.
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