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  • Comment: The new sources do not provide significant coverage - they are scholarly articles by other scholars who cite Dr Choi's research in a completely ordinary way without discussing Dr Choi or his work in detail. Lijil (talk) 17:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Jin Nam Choi
CitizenshipSouth Korea
Occupation(s)Organizational psychologist, researcher, author, and academic
Academic background
EducationB.A., Psychology
M.A., Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Ph.D., Organizational Psychology
Alma materSeoul National University
The University of Michigan
ThesisMicroprocesses in implementing innovations: The role of person -innovation fit (2000)
Academic work
InstitutionsSeoul National University

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

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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

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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

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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

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Selected books

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  • 최진남 (2021). Smart Organizational Behavior. 생능. ISBN 979-1186689394.
  • Smart Management. 생능. 2023. ISBN 979-1186689509.

Selected articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Jin Nam Choi's webpage". Seoul National University. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Jin Nam Choi". Scopus. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Name Choi Biography". Seoul National University. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  4. ^ 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. PMID 36833852.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.


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Jin Nam Choi publications indexed by Google Scholar