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Introduction
Najung Kim is an associate professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at Kookmin University. Her research explores the dynamics of individuals’ work experiences in the context of time, focusing on the concepts of identity, emotion, age, and culture. The topics include identity change process during work transition experiences, generational differences on the meaning of career, and age differences in engagement at work.
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January 2020 - December 2020
September 2019 - present
March 2014 - August 2019
Education
September 2008 - August 2013
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Publications (36)
This study explores how affective and cognitive experiences in an executive MBA(EMBA) course facilitate executives’ transformative learning. Using data collected from in-depth interviews with 35 executive learners who took a transformative learning oriented
course, we found four affective experiences—feeling respected, safe, excited, and energized—...
With the growing importance of relational coordination in today's multidisciplinary, interdependent work environment, practitioners are faced with challenges in designing and implementing relationship‐oriented HR practices. We aim to identify key mechanisms either enabling or inhibiting the functional interplay between HR practices and relational c...
Purpose
Within the theoretical frameworks of conservation of resources and job demands-resources (JD-R), the study aims to examine how sleep deficit could be negatively related to creativity at work by depleting critical resources of creativity.
Design/methodology/approach
The survey data were collected from 368 individuals nested in 40 teams at a...
The current paper aims to provide a primer on the application of inductive qualitative research method for researchers in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource management. With this goal in mind, I introduce the definition and characteristics of the inductive qualitative research method, and to better understanding of this method...
Successful expatriation and repatriation have been taxing issues for multinational companies, and various scholars and practitioners have endeavored to identify factors that influence the success of international assignments. In this chapter, we focus on a relational approach and highlight the importance of developmental relationships in achieving...
In this study, we examine the effects of gender, generation, and the interaction between gender and generation on Korean accountants’ perception of career success. With the large survey data collected from 1,000 accountants working in South Korea, we found that Korean female accountants have higher perceived importance of work-life balance dimensio...
Aiming at minimizing the potential negative impact of the pandemic on economic growth, the South Korean government implemented a no-lockdown strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The no-lockdown strategy might have helped Korean consumers to maintain their consumption patterns as well as their quality of life to a certain degree, but recent statis...
What is the most effective style of sales leadership in a B2C sales environment? This study was designed to find the answer to this key question. We focused on examining the effects of four leadership styles (paternalistic leadership, transactional leadership, empowering leadership, and issue leadership) of sales managers on team sales performance...
Under the continuous spread of COVID-19 infection, individuals are finding their own ways to manage their stress and subjective wellbeing. The main objective of this research is to test the role of leisure life satisfaction on one’s subjective wellbeing in the era of COVID-19 as mediated by stress relief. Individuals’ satisfaction with leisure life...
Subjective career success continues to be a critical topic in careers scholarship due to ever changing organizational and societal contexts that make reliance upon external definitions of success untenable or undesirable. While various measures of subjective career success have been developed, there is no measure that is representative of multiple...
Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organizational level variables, we provide insights into how career goals and behaviors are understood and embedded in the more distal societal context. More specifically, we operationalize s...
This article examines how Korean leaders in a hierarchical society would trigger employees’ creativity and voice behavior through an indigenous leadership style: Korean leadership style (KLS). KLS exhibits heavily relationship-oriented behaviors, including attending to superiors’ needs and requests, building a positive reputation and trust of peers...
We introduce career success schemas as critical for understanding how people in different contexts perceive and understand career success. Using a comparative configurational approach, we show, in a study of thirteen countries, that two structural characteristics of career success schemas—complexity and convergence—differ across country contexts an...
Whilst career proactivity has positive consequences for an individual’s career success, studies mostly examine objective measures of success within single countries. This raises important questions about whether proactivity is equally beneficial for different aspects of subjective career success, and the extent to which these benefits extend across...
Abstract
In the era of a graying workforce, individuals and their employers are concerned with its impact on the level of engagement at work. Contrary to the myths about older workers being less engaged, statistics have shown that the level of engagement is higher as people age. Within the broad framework of conservation of resources theory in the...
Why do some negotiators benefit from making the first offer during negotiations while others do not? This study explores the contents of conversations that take place before negotiators make their first offers in order to learn more about the differences between ultimately successful first offers that benefit from anchoring effects and ultimately u...
In the era of graying workforce, individuals and their employers are concerned with its impact on the level of engagement at work. Contrary to the myths about less engaged older workers, statistics have shown that the level of engagement is higher as people age. The current study aims at clarifying how older workers are more engaged at work than yo...
This study aims to investigate the life satisfaction of Korean workers influenced by the
seven factors of career success: learning & development, entrepreneurial success, work-life
balance, positive impact, positive relationships, financial security, and financial achievement.
260 Korean workers participated in the survey and the polynominal regres...
Abstract
Ample research shows that an employee's age and the distribution of ages in groups and organizations affect work. There are at least two mechanisms that explain these effects. The first is that age exerts a direct effect on work-related variables. Here, the effect of any given age is fixed and independent of how others perceive it. For ins...
In the era of globalization and workforce flexibility, “new” career concepts such as protean career, boundaryless career, and kaleidoscope career are constantly emerging. Individuals no longer work in a single organization throughout their lives and they often cross organizational, occupational, and professional boundaries by switching careers and...
Human resource policies and practices must consider the issues associated with an aging workforce, and, more specifically, the stress experienced by those involved in caring for elders. This study examined such stress by studying the relationship between work–elder caregiving conflict and well-being, as well as the role of perceived financial need...
The classic notion of retirement as the complete withdrawal from the workforce does not adequately describe the current career paths of people who are at the retirement age. Older people are moving away from the traditional career stage model (Super, 1957 ) and to the career mini-cycle model (Hall, 1993, 2002 ). Continuous career development and le...
In this chapter, we explore the relationship between the protean career orientation (PCO) and meaningful work. Branching out from the idea that the meaning of work is an individual’s interpretation of what work means to her or him personally (Wrzesniewski, Dutton, & Debebe, 2003), we consider meaningful work to occur when individuals find their wor...
The Oxford Handbook of Retirement offers comprehensive, up-to-date, and forward-thinking summaries of contemporary knowledge on retirement, especially the important progress that has been made in the field over the past two decades. The approach taken spans human resource management, organizational psychology, development psychology, gerontology, s...
Over the past twenty years, research on social embeddedness and socially embedded exchange has grown to occupy a prominent place in organizational theory research. But while a large volume of research makes reference to the construct of social embeddedness, few papers have attempted to assess the state of our knowledge about the construct. In this...