Ji Koung Kim

Ji Koung Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Management from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Korea University. Prior to joining MSU, Ji was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School.  

Ji’s program of research is comprised of three distinct yet interrelated areas. In his primary area of research, he investigates how employees interact with different organizational audiences to craft and manage their reputation at work, as well as the implications of these interactions for employee well-being, performance, and career success. His second research stream focuses on how employees cultivate positive workplace relationships, the conditions under which they are most effective in doing so, the consequences of such relationships, and how relationships change and evolve. Third, Ji studies how new and contemporary ways of working, such as remote/hybrid work arrangements and gig work, have changed the manner in which work is conducted in organizational settings and how employees proactively navigate these changes to improve their work lives. His work has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.