Siyu Yu

Siyu Yu is an Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.  

Siyu's research centers on two fundamental social structures that pervade organizational life: social hierarchies and social networks. Her research revisits long-held assumptions about their implications, revealing overlooked liabilities and potential benefits by examining how these structures interact. At the individual level, she studies how individual differences in accurately perceiving status hierarchies (i.e., "status acuity")  influence workplace outcomes; how, when, and why advantageous networks yield both benefits and hidden costs; and how different bases of hierarchy—status and power—produce divergent personal consequences. At the team level, her work advances the conflict perspective of hierarchy by highlighting how team members’ mental representations of team environments can either amplify or mitigate dysfunctional intra-team dynamics.

Her research has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.