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Organizational behavior expert Dr. Tae-Yeol Kim joined the Department of Economics and Business after teaching for 14 and a half years at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai (a graduate school of business and finance ranked by the Financial Times as the best MBA program in Asia and the #2 executive MBA program in the world).

At Hope he teaches the upper-level management seminar Leadership and Service in a Global Society.

Dr. Kim鈥檚 research on leadership, creativity, proactivity and the fit between a person and their environment in a business context has been published in leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His 2020 book, The 4th Industrial Revolution and Leadership, was honored in 2020 by the National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea as one of the best books published in a social science in 2019鈥�2020.

He is an associate editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and serves on the editorial boards of four other journals, including the Journal of Management and Journal of Organizational Behavior. For six years (through 2024) he also served as an associate editor of Human Relations.

Before joining the faculty of CEIBS, Dr. Kim taught in the management department of CityUniversity of Hong Kong. He joined the Hope faculty in 2025.

AREAS OF Expertise

• Organizational behavior
• Leadership
• Team and individual creativity in the workplace
• Self-presentation
• Helping others and organizations
• Person鈥揺nvironment fit
• Proactivity

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., management, University of North Carolina, 2004
• M.A., organizational behavior, Yonsei University, Korea, 1997
• B.A., business administration, Yonsei University, 1995

HONORS

• Named among the world鈥檚 top 2% of scientists in business and management, Stanford University and Elsevier, 2024鈥�2025
• Identified as one of the Chinese researchers most frequently cited worldwide in 2015鈥�2025, Elsevier, 2025
• Medal for Research Excellence, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), 2017
• Citations of Excellence, Emerald Publishing, 2015鈥�2016
• Research Excellence Award, CEIBS, 2012
• Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence, Emerald Publishing, 2009
• Faculty Research Award, City University of Hong Kong, 2007

PUBLISHED WORK

• 鈥淒ancing with Inactive Helpers: Effects of Team Members鈥� Prosocial Motivation Profiles on Team Processes and Performance鈥� (with A. Wang, W. Wu and Y. Chen), Journal of Applied Psychology, 2025
• 鈥淐ompetence Drives Interest or Vice Versa? Untangling the Bidirectional Relationships between Creative Self-Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity in Shaping Employee Creativity鈥� (with T. Chen, Y. Gong and Y. Liang), Journal of Management, 2024
• 鈥溾�� (with S. Schug, X. Wang and Z. Liu), Journal of Management, 2024
• 鈥淓ffects of Leader Group Prototypicality on Leadership Outcomes through Leader Identity Threat: The Moderating Effects of Leader Perceptions of Organizational Support鈥� (with M. Rogers, T. Chen and E. David), Journal of Management Studies, 2024
• 鈥淎 Paradox Theory Lens on Proactivity, Individual Ambidexterity, and Creativity: An Empirical Look鈥� (with J. Wang et al.), Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2024
• 鈥淧erceived Overqualification and Employee Outcomes: The Dual Pathways and the Moderating Effects of Dual-Focused Transformational Leadership鈥� (with Z. Liu, Y. Huang and H. Cheng), Human Resource Management, 2024
• 鈥淎uthenticity or Self-Enhancement? Effects of Self-Presentation and Authentic Leadership on Trust and Performance鈥� (with E. David, T. Chen and Y. Liang), Journal of Management, 2023