BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs

Dr. Hae-Lyeng Rose Kim's research explores how current workplace contexts—social, physical, and now digital—shape employee proactivity. To this end, she employs longitudinal field surveys, experience-sampling studies, laboratory and online experiments, and qualitative interviews, to pursue one overarching question: When and how do changing work contexts facilitate or inhibit proactive behaviors?

 

Rose earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Maryland; MS in Organizational Behavior from Seoul National University; MS in Journalism from Columbia University; and BS in Business Administration from Seoul National University.

 

Prior to joining the academia, she worked in the finance industry, and as a journalist at Bloomberg, covering corporate governance issues at major chaebols (i.e., South Korea's family-run conglomerates), and Korea's auto industry.

 

Research Interest: Proactivity; Motivation; Future of Work; Work Environment; Power & Status Dynamics

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business, Stillwater, OK, United States2026 - present
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate
    University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, VA, United States2024 - 2026

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Reporter
    Bloomberg LP, News, Seoul, Korea, Republic of2011 - 2016
  • Associate
    SBI Private Equity, Seoul, Korea, Republic of2008 - 2009

DEGREES

  • PhD, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
    University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States2019 - 2024
  • Master of Science, Business Administration
    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea2016 - 2018
  • Master of Science, Journalism
    Columbia University, New York, NY, United States2010 - 2011
  • Bachelor, Business Administration
    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea2004 - 2009

CAMPUS

  • Oklahoma State University - Stillwater

DEPARTMENT

  • Management