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 ProfessorOklahoma State University, Spears School of Business, Stillwater, OK, United States2026 - present
- Post-Doctoral Research AssociateUniversity of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, VA, United States2024 - 2026
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ReporterBloomberg LP, News, Seoul, Korea, Republic of2011 - 2016
- AssociateSBI Private Equity, Seoul, Korea, Republic of2008 - 2009
DEGREES
- PhD, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States2019 - 2024
- Master of Science, Business AdministrationSeoul National University, Seoul, South Korea2016 - 2018
- Master of Science, JournalismColumbia University, New York, NY, United States2010 - 2011
- Bachelor, Business AdministrationSeoul National University, Seoul, South Korea2004 - 2009
CAMPUS
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
DEPARTMENT
- Management