Education
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2021M.S. Korea University, 2014
B.B.A. Korea University, 2012
Research Interest
Voice; status, transgressions, helping, creativity, leadership, research methodsCourses Taught
MGMT 425: Human Resources SelectionMGMT 373: Managing Human Resources
Biography
Sijun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School. He came to Aggieland in 2022 as a visiting faculty member and started his current position in 2023. He received his doctoral degree in management at the University of Arizona.
His research interests are primarily about voice and status, but they also expand to other topics such as transgressions, helping, gratitude, stressor appraisal, and diversity. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Social Psychological and Personality Science, and it has also been presented at multiple academic conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, the Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference, and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) Conference. He is also an editorial review board member of the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology.
At Texas A&M University, he has been teaching multiple human resource management classes such as Managing Human Resources (MGMT 373) and Human Resources Selection (MGMT 425). Before starting his academic career, he worked as an HR manager at POSCO Daewoo (now called POSCO International), a global trading and project development company in South Korea.
Research Publications
Polin, B., Doyle, S. P., Kim, S., Lewicki, R. J., & Chawla, N. (2024). Sorry to ask but … how is apology effectiveness dependent on apology content and gender? Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(3), 339-361. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001128
Doyle, S. P., Kim, S., & Kim, H. Y. (2024). The psychology of status competitions within organizations: Navigating two competing motives. In S. M. Garcia, A. Tor, & A. J. Elliot (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the psychology of competition (pp. 444-475). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190060800.013.19
Kim, H. Y., Kim, S., Howell, T. M., Doyle, S. P., Pettit, N. C., & Bizzarro, M. (2023). Are we essential, or sacrificial? The effects of felt public gratitude on essential worker recovery activities during COVID-19. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(2), 218–227. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221077858
Doyle, S. P., Pettit, N. C., Kim, S., To, C., & Lount, R. B. Jr. (2022). Surging underdogs and slumping favorites: How recent streaks and future expectations drive competitive transgressions. Academy of Management Journal, 65(5), 1507–1540. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1008
Kim, S., McClean, E. J., Doyle, S. P., Podsakoff, N. P., Lin, E., & Woodruff, T. (2022). The positive and negative effects of social status on ratings of voice behavior: A test of opposing structural and psychological pathways. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(6), 951–967. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000945
McClean, E. J., Kim, S., & Martínez, T. M. (2022). Which ideas for change are endorsed? How agentic and communal voice affects endorsement differently for men and for women. Academy of Management Journal, 65(2), 634–655. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0492
