Jae Yun Kim

Jae Yun Kim is an Assistant Professor (Richard Morantz and Sheree Walder Morantz Professorship in Business Ethics) at the I.H. Asper School of Business of the University of Manitoba. He received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from Duke University. His research centers on the intersection of motivation, organizational justice, and social justice. Jae Yun primarily investigates how popular ideas about self-help and self-improvement (e.g., women’s empowerment messages, advice to pursue one’s passion) shape people’s views and behaviors regarding organizational and social issues. His work explores topics including responsibility for inequality, mistreatment of workers, work ethics, and unfair career and life outcomes.

• Justice
• Ethics
• Self-help and self-improvement

Kim, J. Y., Ma, A., Paek, J. J., & Liu, F. Threats to personal control fuel similarity attraction. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kim, J. Y., Campbell, T. H., Shepherd, S., & Kay, A. C. Understanding Contemporary Forms of Exploitation: Attributions of Passion Serve to Legitimize the Poor Treatment of Workers. (2020). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Kim, J. Y., Fitzsimons, G. M., & Kay, A. C. Lean In Messages Increase Attributions of Women’s Responsibility for Gender Inequality. (2018). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In 2015, the United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a shared framework to address urgent global challenges, from poverty reduction to environmental sustainability. This scholar’s research advances knowledge and contributes to impact in the following SDG(s):