Jungook Kim
Hometown: Busan, South Korea
Joined Chatham: August 2022
ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST
Employee participation, various forms of employee ownership and employee financial participation, business organizations and society, workplace and economic democracy, wage and wealth inequality, High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) and labor-management cooperation.
PERSONAL AREAS OF INTEREST
Travel, taking landscape photos, video games. I drove to 47 states in the U.S. (Alaska, Hawaii, and Oregon are the exceptions) so far. I'm hoping to visit the rest soon.
BIOGRAPHY
I was born and raised in South Korea, studied there, worked there, and came to the U.S. in 2013 to pursue advanced degrees in labor relations and human resources management. I have academic backgrounds in social work, international area studies, labor relations and human resource management. I worked as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultant in South Korea until 2013, working with for-profit enterprises of various sizes, government agencies, local governments, and nonprofit organizations.
EDUCATION
- M.S., Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ),
- Master of Labor and Employment Relations, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), 2015
- Master of International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea), 2011
- B.A., Social Work, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), 2001
ORGANIZATIONS
- Chatham faculty representative to the Pittsburgh Task Force for Employee Ownership
- Academy of Management
- Labor and Employment Relations Association
AWARDS
- The Employee Ownership Foundation Louis O. Kelso Fellow at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership Profit Sharing 2018-2019, 2021-2022
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Kim, J. (2024). Interrelations of broad-based employee stock compensation, organizational justice perception, and psychological ownership.
- Carberry, E., Kim, J., Han, J., Weltmann, D., Blasi, J., & Kruse. D. (2024). Feeling Like Owners: The Impact of High-Performance Work Practices and Psychological Ownership on Employee Outcomes in Employee-Owned Companies. International Review of Applied Economics.
- Kim, J. (2024). Ownership, Participation, and Political Behaviors: A Latent-Class Analysis Approach to Democratic Spillover. Economic and Industrial Democracy.
- Rhokeun Park & Jungook Kim (2022): Differential effects of autonomy on employee satisfaction and organizational performance depending on the type of financial incentives: evidence from a four-wave panel of Korean companies, The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
- Choi, J., Lee, J. E., Choi, B., Kim, J., & Lee, S. E. (2021). Experiences and Perceptions of Gender Discrimination and Equality among Korean Surgeons: Results of a Survey of the Korean Surgical Society. Journal of Korean medical science, 36(48), e323.
- Kim, J. (2021). Does participation in the workplace spill over into political participation? A latent class analysis approach to patterns of political behavior. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, (4)2, 174-189.
- Kim, J. (2021). Democratic spillover from workplace into politics: What are we measuring and how? Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 26, 145-176.
- Kruse, D., Blasi, J., Weltmann, D., Kang, S., Kim, J. O., Castellano, W. (2021). Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk? ILR Review.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- Carberry, E., Kim, J., Han, J., Weltmann, D., Blasi, J., & Kruse. D. (2024). “Feeling Like Owners: The Impact of High-Performance Work Practices and Psychological Ownership on Employee Outcomes in Employee-Owned Companies.” Academy of Management Annual Conference (Chicago, IL), August 2024.
- Kim, J., & Choi. H. “Employee Stock Ownership Plans: An International Comparison.” Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 76th Annual Meeting, June 2024. New York, NY.
- Kim, J., Kruse, D., and Blasi, J. "Worker-oriented Collective Incentives: A Resource Allocation Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors." Academy of Management Annual Conference (Boston, MA), August 2023.
- Kim, J. "Data and employee ownership: Scientific knowledge, it IS your business". Canadian Employee Ownership Conference 2019, June 2019, Toronto, Canada.
- Kim, J. "What democracy? A review of the definition and measurement of workplace democracy and participation in empirical studies on Carole Pateman’s spillover thesis". Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 72nd Annual Meeting (virtual), LERA/AILR Best Paper Competition, June 2020 / Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) 56th Conference, June 2019, Vancouver, Canada.
- Kim, J., & Pinto, S. "What do unions do to shared ownership? Exploring the interaction effect of shared capitalism and unions on employee outcomes". SASE Annual 31st Annual Conference, June 2019. New York, NY / Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) 2019 Regional Student Conference, March 2019, Washington, DC.
- Kim, J. "Does participation in a workplace spill over into political participation? A perspective on the role of shared capitalism". Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 71st Annual Meeting, June 2019. Cleveland, OH / International Labor Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress 2018, July 2018. Seoul, Korea / Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 30th Annual Conference, June 2018, Kyoto, Japan.
- Kim, J. "The impact of employee ownership for low and moderate income employees and their families". LERA 69th Annual Meeting, June 2017, Anaheim, CA.