Dr. Grace Lee

Dr. Grace Lee was a professor at City University of Hong Kong for twenty years before she migrated with her family to Canada in 2010. Her teaching and research interests are in labour markets, employment policies and public management. Dr. Lee had published five books, and over ninety publications including internationally refereed journal articles, book chapters and contract research reports.

Dr. Lee taught International Business, International Human Resource Management, and Doing Business with East Asian Countries when she was with Simon Fraser University and is now teaching Organizational Behaviour at Corpus Christi College.

Active in leading Catholic faith studies, Dr. Lee has been involved in the Cantonese Bible Study at St. Francis Xavier (SFX) Parish since 2014. In 2016, Dr. Lee delivered an 18-hour course on "God's Project for Humankind" over a period of six weeks at SFX, which was well received by more than one hundred participants.In 2018, Dr Lee published a book "Be Holy" in Chinese. In 2019, the Kerygma was proclaimed in a lecture "Be God's Witness" with illustrations from Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel (pictures captured from Bishop Baron's "WORDonFIRE"), featuring a 3-minute video clip from Cardinal Tagle's "The Word Exposed". Videos of the lecture has been uploaded on YouTube: Parts 1 and 2 - https://youtu.be/L9OpIMdgfZM, https://youtu.be/Q_swwP_ZJq4

Degrees:
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong (1997)
  • Master of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong (1989)
  • Bachelor of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong (1984)
Publications:

Grace Lee, "Be Holy" (in Chinese), Vancouver: Canadian Martyrs Catholic Church, 2018.

Ng Sek-hong and Grace O M Lee, "Workers' Industrial Militancy and Dependency upon the State Lever: The Paradox of Industrial Relations in Hong Kong," Journal of Industrial Relations, 52: 4, 2010: 507-522.

Grace O M Lee and Malcolm Warner, The Political Economy of the SARS Epidemic: The Impact on Human Resources in East Asia, London: Routledge, 2008.

Grace O M Lee and Malcolm Warner (eds.), Unemployment in China: Economy, Human Resources & Labour Markets, London: Routledge, 2007.

Grace O M Lee and Malcolm Warner, "The impact of SARS on China's human resources: implications for the labour market and level of unemployment in the service sector in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai," International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17: 5 May 2006: 860-880.

Grace O M Lee and Malcolm Warner, "The Shanghai Re-employment Model: From Local Experiment to Nationwide Labour Market Policy," The China Quarterly 177, March 2004: 174-189.

Christopher Hood and B Guy Peters with Grace O M Lee (eds.) Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific-Rim States, London: Routledge, 2003.

Ahmed Shafiqul Huque and Grace O M Lee, Managing Public Services: Crises and Response From Hong Kong, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Grace O M Lee and Anthony B. L. Cheung, The Civil Service in Hong Kong: Continuity and Change, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998.

Previous Appointments:
  • Simon Fraser University
  • City University of Hong Kong