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Young-myeong Kim

Sungkyunkwan University · Business, Management and Accounting

About the Lab

Professor Young-myeong Kim's research lab focuses on the intersection of human resource management, organizational behavior, and emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence in the workplace. The lab investigates how strategic HR practices—such as staffing, training, and performance evaluation systems—affect firm performance and employee outcomes under varying economic and competitive conditions. It also explores the psychological and social dynamics of workplace phenomena, including gossip, power, and perceptions of algorithmic fairness. Additionally, the lab examines cross-cultural differences in human-AI interaction, especially in the context of autonomous vehicles and AI agent design.

organizational behaviorartificial intelligencehuman resource managementworkplace gossipalgorithmic fairness

Research Overview

Papers
97
Total Citations
1,819
Papers (5y)
32
Primary Field
Business, Management and Accounting

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
32total
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Citations per year (5y)
152total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|280 citations·2013
The effects of staffing and training on firm productivity and profit growth before, during, and after the Great Recession.
Youngsang Kim, Robert E. Ployhart
SJR Q1Journal of Applied Psychology

This study integrates research from strategy, economics, and applied psychology to examine how organizations may leverage their human resources to enhance firm performance and competitive advantage. Staffing and training are key human resource management practices used to achieve firm performance through acquiring and developing human capital resources. However, little research has examined whether and why staffing and training influence firm-level financial performance (profit) growth under dif

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
2
Article|75 citations·2020
Frequent CEO Turnover and Firm Performance: The Resilience Effect of Workforce Diversity
Youngsang Kim, Sophia Soyoung Jeong, Daphne W. Yiu, Jinhee Moon
SJR Q1Journal of Business EthicsOA
Gender StudiesSocial Sciences
3
Article|64 citations·2017
The Strategic Value of Selection Practices: Antecedents and Consequences of Firm-level Selection Practice Usage
Youngsang Kim, Robert E. Ployhart
SJR Q1Academy of Management Journal

The expectation that selection practices contribute to organizational performance has been long assumed; however, research on personnel selection has neglected to consider why firms differ in their use of selection practices and whether selection practices relate to organizational performance under different competitive environments. Based on strategic human resource management research, we introduce contingency theory to examine whether external (industry characteristics) and internal (prior fi

AccountingBusiness, Management and Accounting
4
Article|13 citations·2023
How Does Workplace Gossip Benefit Gossip Actors? The Impact of Workplace Gossip on Power and Voluntary Turnover
Andrea Kim, Allison S. Gabriel, Youngsang Kim, Jinhee Moon, Christopher C. Rosen
SJR Q1Group & Organization Management

Although workplace gossip is ubiquitous, more scholarship is needed to determine how employees may use gossip to attain valuable social resources at work—namely, their experience of power. Drawing from the gossip literature and research on power in the workplace, we identify proximal (i.e., increased power accrual) and distal (i.e., diminished voluntary turnover) positive outcomes for employees enacting negative and positive gossip about the organization at work. Using a sample of 338 nurses, we

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
5
Article|10 citations·2022
The consequences of collaborative overload: A long-term investigation of helping behavior
Andrea Kim, Youngsang Kim, Younsung Cho
SJR Q1Journal of Business Research
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
6
Article|9 citations·2021
Creative identity asymmetry: When and how it impacts psychological strain and creative performance
Yangxin Wang, Youngsang Kim, Dora C. Lau
SJR Q1Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyPsychology
7
Article|7 citations·2001
Foreign Language Anxiety as an Individual Difference Variable in Performance: From an Interactionist's Perspective.
Youngsang Kim
Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
8
Article|7 citations·2024
What algorithmic evaluation fails to deliver: respectful treatment and individualized consideration
Jinseok S. Chun, David De Cremer, Eun-Ji Oh, Youngsang Kim
SJR Q1Scientific ReportsOA

As firms increasingly depend on artificial intelligence to evaluate people across various contexts (e.g., job interviews, performance reviews), research has explored the specific impact of algorithmic evaluations in the workplace. In particular, the extant body of work focuses on the possibility that employees may perceive biases from algorithmic evaluations. We show that although perceptions of biases are indeed a notable outcome of AI-driven assessments (vs. those performed by humans), a cruci

Family PracticeMedicine
9
Article|5 citations·2024
Preventing subsequent turnover after downsizing: The role of collective pay for performance practices
Youngsang Kim, Andrea Kim, Tae‐Youn Park, Eun‐Ji Oh, Seung Soo Eo, Kihwan Song
SJR Q1Human Resource Management JournalOA

Abstract Prior studies have suggested that downsizing events can lead to a contagion of voluntary turnover among employees. In the current study, drawing on the turnover event theory, we propose that the relationship between downsizing and turnover can be nonlinear. We also propose that the presence of collective pay‐for‐performance (PFP) practices is an important but overlooked contingency that moderates the effects of downsizing. By analyzing a dataset collected from 317 firms with 634 firm‐ye

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting
10
Article|5 citations·2024
The Influence of Founder CEO’s Human Capital Resources on the Relationship Between Workforce Gender Diversity and Venture Firm Performance
Eun‐Ji Oh, Youngsang Kim, Yangxin Wang
SJR Q1Journal of Business Ethics
Gender StudiesSocial Sciences
11
Article|2 citations·2021
Cross-cultural comparison of preferences for the external appearance of artificial intelligence agents
Youngsang Kim, Hoonsik Yoo
SJR Q3Social Behavior and Personality An International JournalOA

We analyzed international differences in preferences related to the two dimensional (2D) versus three dimensional (3D) and male versus female external appearance of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for use in self-driving automobiles. We recruited 823 participants in five countries (South Korea, United States, China, Russia, and Brazil), who completed a survey. South Korean, Chinese, and North American respondents preferred a 2D appearance of the AI agent, which appears to result from the rel

Social PsychologyPsychology
12
Article|2 citations·2019
Case study of risk management for high-rise buildings using a control chart: schedule management of the busan M tower residential apartment complex
Youngsang Kim, Seungjun Roh, Woosuk Kim, Jong‐Kook Lee, Yoon-Keun Kwak
Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
13
Article|2 citations·2004
A Factor Analytic Study of English Language Anxiety: The Case of Korean University EFL Learners
Youngsang Kim
Language and LinguisticsArts and Humanities
14
Article|2 citations·2008
Throughput Analysis of Randomized Sleep Scheduling with Constrained Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Youngsang Kim, Chang-Woo Yang, Chun‐Hung Liu

In this paper, we investigate and analyze the expected per-node throughput in a wireless sensor network under a randomized sleep scheduling framework with a connectivity constraint. The unique optimal sleep probability maximizing the per-node throughput in the network is found. A sleep probability range in which the throughput monotonically increases along the sleep probability does exist, and it becomes a large portion of the total range when a network is heavy-traffic. This finding contradicts

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
15
Article|1 citations·2016
A Case Study of Operating the Computer Programming Subject based on the Flipped Learning Model
Youngsang Kim
Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and InformationOA

This paper shows what kind of influence the learning motivation factors have on the effectiveness of Flipped Learning Model through the case of operating a JAVA programming subject. The Flipped Learning Approach consisting of Before Class, Before or At Start of Class, and In Class provides the students with learning motivation as well as satisfies Keller's ARCS(Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) to keep them studying steadily. This research conducts the operation of Flipped Learning

EducationSocial Sciences

Research Areas

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSociology and Political ScienceComputer Networks and CommunicationsLanguage and LinguisticsGender StudiesSocial Psychology

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