Heather Jia Dr. Heather H. Jia

Associate Professor

Department of Management

Office

SFHB State Farm Hall Of Business 250

Office Hours

24/7 By Appointment

Office Phone

(309) 438-5093office
phone

hhjia@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Research

Biography

Dr. Heather H. Jia is a professor with over 15 years of academic experience. Her research interests center around advancing the implementation of neurodivergent populations in the workforce.

Current Courses

100.005Enterprise

100.008Enterprise

100.017Enterprise

220.001Business Organization And Management

Teaching Interests & Areas

Management, Human Resources, and Organizational Behavior courses
(Graduate and Undergraduate Levels)

Research Interests & Areas

neurodivergence in the workplace

PhD

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Conference Proceeding

Jia, R., Jia, H., & Wolf, J. Executive Dysfunction, Emotion Dysregulation, and Employee Burnout. SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference (2025)

Jia, R., & Jia, H. Understanding Employee Work Exhaustion Through the Lens of Neurodiversity. (Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year). Proceedings of the ACM-SIGMIS CPR Conference (2024)

Jia, R., Steelman, Z., & Jia, H. An Integration of Cognitive Absorption and Interruption Overload Through the Lens of Neurodiversity: Some Preliminary Results.. Proceedings of Hawaii Int’l Conf on Sys Sciences (HICSS) (2023)

Jia, H. Spotting the Diamond in the Rough: Interview and Selection of Job Seekers on the Autism Spectrum. Academy of Management Annual Conference (2019)

Jia, H., & Jia, R. What Makes Us IT People? Autistic Tendency and Intrinsic Interests in IT. ACM SIGMIS CPR 2019 Conference (2019)

Journal Article

Jia, R., Steelman, Z., & Jia, H. What Makes One Intrinsically Interested in IT? An Exploratory Study on Influences of Autistic Tendency and Gender in the U.S. and India. no. Management Information Systems Quarterly 46.23 (2022): 1603-1634.

Jia, R., Steelman, Z., & Jia, H. 'An Assessment of the Psychometric Properties of Three Self-Report Autism Scales (AQ, RBQ-2A, and SQ) for General Adult Populations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2019): 1-17.

Fleming, D., & Jia, H. Recruiting for Technology Reliant Positions: Can common Personality Inventories Improve Success?. Journal Of Managerial Issues 28.3/4 (2016): 248-265.

Jia, R., Reich, B., & Jia, H. A Commentary on: 'Creating Agile Organizations through IT: The Influence of IT Service Climate on IT Service Quality and IT Agility.'. Journal Of Strategic Information Systems 25 (2016): 227-231.

Jia, R., & Jia, H. Service Climate in Knowledge-Intensive, Internal Service Settings. International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences 8.4 (2016): 462-477.

Presentations

Jia, Ronnie; Riemenschneider, Cindy; and Jia, Heather H., "Neurodiversity, Emotional Labor, and Mental Wellbeing in IT Employees" (2024). ICIS 2024 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2024/digtech_fow/digtech_fow/4

Creating a Workplace that Embraces Neurodiversity. International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS). Association for Information Systems (AIS). (2022)

Spotting the Diamond in the Rough: Interview and Selection of Job Seekers on the Autism Spectrum. Academy of Management Annual Conference. (2019)

What Makes Us IT People? Autistic Tendency and Intrinsic Interests in IT. ACM SIGMIS CPR 2019 Conference. (2019)