Jin Nam Choi
| Jin Nam Choi | |
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| Born | |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | South Korea |
| 💼 Occupation | Organizational psychologist, researcher, author, and academic |
Jin Nam Choi is a South Korean organizational psychologist, researcher, author, and academic. He is a professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Graduate School of Business of Seoul National University.[1]
Choi's work has been focused in the field of organizational behavior with a particular focus in the implementation of innovation in firms, the effectiveness of team processes, individual and team creativity, as well as organizational citizenship behavior. He has authored books in English and Korean, including Smart Management and Smart Organizational Behavior
As of 2025, his work has been cited 7000 times according to Scopus.[2]
Education and early career
Choi obtained his baccalaureate degree in Psychology from Seoul National University in 1990 and went on to complete a master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the same institute in 1992. In 1995, he was appointed as a research associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he earned his doctoral degree in Organizational Psychology in 2000.[3]
Career
Following his Ph.D., in 2000, Choi began his academic career as an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at McGill University in Canada. In 2006, he was appointed as an associate professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at Seoul National University. He was promoted to professor in 2012.[3]
Research
Choi has studied organizational behavior, including its impact on the creativity of an individual or a team. He emphasized the importance of carefully weighing the mixed impacts of task complexity and routinization on employee creativity.[4]
Choi highlighted the significance of emotions within the context of innovation implementation and demonstrated the necessity for increased focus on emotional processes when scrutinizing organizational innovations.[5] Along with Sun Young Sung, he explained how an organization's investment in its employees contributes to improving its innovative performance.[6]
Choi examined the proactive dynamics of customer citizenship behavior to interpret its impact on firm performance.[7]
Bibliography
Selected books
- 최진남 (2021). Smart Organizational Behavior. 생능. ISBN 979-1186689394. Search this book on
- Smart Management. 생능. 2023. ISBN 979-1186689509. Search this book on
Selected articles
- Price, R. H.; Choi, J. N.; Vinokur, A. D. (2002). "Links in the chain of adversity following job loss: how financial strain and loss of personal control lead to depression, impaired functioning, and poor health". Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. 7 (4): 302–312. doi:10.1037/1076-8998.7.4.302. PMID 12396064.
- Choi, J. N. (2004). "Individual and contextual predictors of creative performance: The mediating role of psychological processes". Creativity Research Journal. 16 (2–3): 187–199. doi:10.1080/10400419.2004.9651452.
- Chun Chu, A. H.; Choi, J. N. (2005). "Rethinking procrastination: Positive effects of "active" procrastination behavior on attitudes and performance". The Journal of Social Psychology. 145 (3): 245–264. doi:10.3200/SOCP.145.3.245-264. PMID 15959999.
- Choi, J. N. (2007). "Change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: effects of work environment characteristics and intervening psychological processes". Journal of Organizational Behavior. 28 (4): 467–484. doi:10.1002/job.433.
- Chun, J. S.; Shin, Y.; Choi, J. N.; Kim, M. S. (2013). "How does corporate ethics contribute to firm financial performance? The mediating role of collective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior". Journal of Management. 39 (4): 853–877. doi:10.1177/0149206311433852 (inactive 1 July 2025).
- Sung, S. Y.; Choi, J. N. (2014). "Do organizations spend wisely on employees? Effects of training and development investments on learning and innovation in organizations". Journal of Organizational Behavior. 35 (3): 393–412. doi:10.1002/job.1897. PMC 4282068. PMID 25598576.
References
- ↑ "Jin Nam Choi's webpage". Seoul National University. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ↑ "Jin Nam Choi". Scopus. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Name Choi Biography". Seoul National University. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ↑ Chae, Heesun; Park, Jisung (10 February 2023). "The Effects of Routinization on Radical and Incremental Creativity: The Mediating Role of Mental Workloads". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20 (4): 3160. doi:10.3390/ijerph20043160. PMC 9967832 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 36833852 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Kim, Jung Su; Chung, Goo Hyeok (3 July 2017). "Implementing innovations within organizations: a systematic review and research agenda". Innovation. 19 (3): 372–399. doi:10.1080/14479338.2017.1335943.
- ↑ Mokhber, Mozhdeh; Khairuzzaman, Wan; Vakilbashi, Amin (January 2018). "Leadership and innovation: The moderator role of organization support for innovative behaviors". Journal of Management & Organization. 24 (1): 108–128. doi:10.1017/jmo.2017.26.
- ↑ Gong, Taeshik; Yi, Youjae (17 February 2021). "A review of customer citizenship behaviors in the service context". The Service Industries Journal. 41 (3–4): 169–199. doi:10.1080/02642069.2019.1680641.
External links
Jin Nam Choi publications indexed by Google Scholar
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