Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour
BS (Yonsei University), BA, MS (Seoul National University), PhD (University of Toronto)
Research interests
Creativity; culture creation; leadership.
Yeun Joon examines, for example, how exchanges of work-relevant information (e.g., feedback, work knowledge) influence employee creativity. He also studies how organisations can correctly diagnose their current cultures and then create cultures that are beneficial for their performance. Lastly, he investigates whether and why team leaders are stuck in their past experience when making important decisions and how organisations help the leaders make better decisions.
Subject group: Organisational Behaviour
Professional experience
Dr Yeun Joon Kim has engaged in several collaborations with and consulting activities for various organisations. He helps organisations continuously innovate their work processes and products, create functional cultures, and train their leaders to be more effective in leading employees. He works with Invesco, Schroders, Ninety One, Border to Coast, and LGIM to investigate the topics of diversity, equality, and inclusion. He also collaborates with the Institute of Metabolic Science in the University of Cambridge, E-ACT, and Providus Bank to diagnose their current cultures and help them create functional cultures. He also works with Kyobo Lifeplanet to create organisational visions, restructure its organisational structure, and develop marketing strategies based on segmentation, targeting, and positioning. He is currently an Independent Director of Kyobo Lifeplanet.
Awards & honours
- Winner, Faculty Transnational Research Award, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2020
- Finalist, Alvah Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2020
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2017-2018
- Finalist, EURAM Most Inspirational Paper Award, 2017
- Winner, Samsung Economic Research Institute Best Paper Awards, 2016
- James Paopst Fellowship, 2015-2016
- National Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Research Scholarship, Korean Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF), 2012-2013
Selected publications
Here are a selection of Yeun Joon Kim’s publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.
Kim, Y.J., Toh, S.M. and Baik, S. (2022) “Culture creation and change: making sense of the past to inform future research agendas.” Journal of Management, 48(6): 1503-1547 (DOI: 10.1177/01492063221081031)
Luan, Y and Kim Y.J. (2022) “An integrative model of new product evaluation: a systematic investigation of perceived novelty and product evaluation in the movie industry.” PLoS ONE, 17(3): e0265193 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265193)
Kim, Y.J. and Meeker, A. (2020) “A subordinate’s criticism makes you more creative.” Harvard Business Review, Mar-Apr
Kim, Y.J. and Kim, J. (2020) “Does negative feedback benefit (or harm) recipient creativity? The role of the direction of feedback flow.” Academy of Management Journal, 63(2): 584–612 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1196)
Kim, Y.J. and Toh, S.M. (2019) “Stuck in the past? The influence of a leader’s past cultural experience on group culture and positive and negative group deviance.” Academy of Management Journal, 62(3): 944–969 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1322)
Kim, Y.J. and Zhong, C.B. (2017) “Ideas rise from chaos: information structure and creativity.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 138: 15-27 (DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.10.001)
Journal articles
Kim, Y.J. and Zhong, C.B. (2016) “Moral reasoning and creativity.” Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2016(1) (DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2016.19)
Kim, Y.J. and Zhong, C.B. (2017) “Ideas rise from chaos: information structure and creativity.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 138: 15-27 (DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.10.001)
Kim, Y.J. and Toh, S.M. (2019) “Stuck in the past? The influence of a leader’s past cultural experience on group culture and positive and negative group deviance.” Academy of Management Journal, 62(3): 944–969 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1322)
Kim, Y.J. and Kim, J. (2020) “Does negative feedback benefit (or harm) recipient creativity? The role of the direction of feedback flow.” Academy of Management Journal, 63(2): 584–612 (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.1196)
Kim, Y.J. and Meeker, A. (2020) “A subordinate’s criticism makes you more creative.” Harvard Business Review, Mar-Apr
Kim, Y.J., Toh, S.M. and Baik, S. (2022) “Culture creation and change: making sense of the past to inform future research agendas.” Journal of Management, 48(6): 1503-1547 (DOI: 10.1177/01492063221081031)
Luan, Y and Kim Y.J. (2022) “An integrative model of new product evaluation: a systematic investigation of perceived novelty and product evaluation in the movie industry.” PLoS ONE, 17(3): e0265193 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265193)
Tierney, W., Kim, Y.J. et al (2022) “A creative destruction approach to replication: implicit work and sex morality across cultures.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93: 104060 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060)
Grossmann, I.E.A. and Kim, Y.J. (2023) “Insights into accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change.” Nature Human Behaviour (DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01517-1) (published online Feb 2023)
Book chapters
Kim, Y.J., McRuer, G. and Hirsh, J.B. (2020) “Creativity in the workplace.” In: Carducci, B.J. (ed.) The Wiley encyclopedia of personality and individual differences: vol.iv: Clinical, applied, and cross-cultural research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, pp.465-470
