Geunpil Ryu

• Professor (Assistant) at Chonnam National University

This paper explores the role of homophily with respect to demographic attributes on the formation of friendships, focusing on the moderating effect of attribute salience and time effect. To address the research questions, we explored a data set collected from Master of Public Administration (MPA) students in four waves over a period of nearly a yea...

The current research examined the relationship between developmental leadership and followers’ work engagement based on the notion that developmental leaders may strengthen subordinates’ job-related skills and knowledge development. Using the Federal Human Capital Survey dataset over three years, the research addressed two research questions: (1) I...

This study addressed the following research question: Do public-sector employees have higher levels of well-being than their counterparts in the private sector? For data analysis, the study employed the propensity score matching method, which compares two groups in terms of similar attributes. The results showed somewhat different patterns in the r...

This research addressed two main research questions: (1) Is constructive performance feedback positively related to perceived fairness of performance appraisal? (2) Does trust in supervisors mediate the relationship between constructive performance feedback and the perception of a performance appraisal as being fair? Using the 2018 Federal Employee...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of workplace learning experience and intrinsic learning motive on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. In addition, the study examined the moderating effect of intrinsic learning motives on the relationship between learning experience and job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Desig...

The present study explored the effects of long working hours and low salary on public employees’ well-being indicators, such as job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and self-rated health. Results showed that having long working hours was not significantly and negatively related to public employee wellness, whereas having a higher salary was signifi...

The current study examines an underlying mechanism of value congruence effect transmitted via vision acceptance on work outcomes such as job satisfaction and affective commitment. It addresses two main research questions: (a) whether value congruence affects job satisfaction and affective commitment and (b) whether employees’ acceptance of organiza...

Research on public service motivation (PSM) has paid attention to the concept of fit to identify underlying mechanisms of the relationship between PSM and beneficial outcomes such as higher job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Nonetheless, there have been rare studies aimed at theoretically comparing PSM with the person–environment (P–E)...

Understanding work and family role transition activities is very important as without knowing the mechanism, policymakers cannot design effective family-friendly programs. This research addressed two research questions: (a) Do work and family role stressors in the public sector have cross-domain effects? and (b) Does gender moderate the cross-domai...

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This research examines the association between value congruence and organizational commitment. Value congruence is important because it allows employees to obtain fulfillment from their work, helps organizations minimize the cost of turnover, and promotes extra-role behaviors. The competing values model was used to measure perceived values and cong...