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Associate Professor - Internship Coordinator (Abu Dhabi)
  • Ph.D. University of South Carolina
  • M.A. Ajou University (Republic of Korea)
  • B.A. Ajou University (Republic of Korea)
Bio

Dr. Sophia Soyoung Jeong is an Associate Professor at the College of Business at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. She also serves as the Internship Coordinator for the College of Business. Prior to moving to the UAE, she taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Jeong’s research efforts focus on individual and group-level processes leading to cooperative behaviors in the workplace including social functions of emotions, trust, prosocial values, and ethics. Her work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Stress and Health, Personnel Review, and Journal of Management Education.

 
Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, MF2-2-005

Phone:

+971-2-599-3325

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Teaching Areas

Introduction to Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Employee Relations

Research and Professional Activities

Trust, Affect, Groups, Teams, Ethics, Social Entrepreneurship

Selected Publications

*denotes student co-author

  • Jeong, S.S. & Korsgaard, M.A. (2021). Group and individual-level consequences of group affect dispersion. Human Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211038521
  • Henderson, A.A. & Jeong, S.S. (2021). Political affiliation dissimilarity: Exploring lone affiliate employees' work attitudes and experiences. Stress and Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3089
  • Kim, Y., Jeong, S. S., Yiu, D. W., & Moon, J.* (2020). Frequent CEO turnover and firm performance: The resilience effect of workforce diversity. Journal of Business Ethics, 173, 185-203.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04534-0
  • Jeong, S.S., Korsgaard, M.A. & Morrell, D. (2020). The dark side of bright traits: How context cues misdirect facets of conscientiousness. Personnel Review, 50(3), 900-917. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2019-0542
  • Jeong, S.S. & Alhanaee, D. W.* (2020). Prosocial motivation as a driver of social innovation in the UAE. Social Science Quarterly, 110(7), 2450-2464. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12913
  • Jeong, S. S., & Sun, T. C.*, & Fu, P.P. (2020). Softening the hearts of business students: The role of emotions in ethical behaviors. Journal of Management Education, 44(3), 278-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/1052562919895039
  • Buchan, N.R., Jeong, S. S., & Ward, A.K. (2017). Local reasons to give globally: Identity extension and global cooperation. Scientific Reports, 7, 15527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15683-0
  • Korsgaard, M.A., Meglino, B.M., Lester, W.L, & Jeong, S.S. (2010). Paying you back or paying me forward: Understanding rewarded and unrewarded organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95, 277-290. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018137
  • Jeong, S.Y., & Yoon, J.K. (2010). Marketability, psychological contract, and work orientations among professionals and non-professionals in Korea. Korean Journal of Management, 18(3), 77-102.
  • Korsgaard, M.A., Jeong, S.S., Mahony, D.M., & Pitariu, A.H. (2008). A multilevel view of intragroup conflict. Journal of Management, 34, 1222-1252. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206308325124
Book Chapters
  • Korsgaard, M.A., Kautz, J., & Jeong, S.S. (2020). Values, Other-interest, and ethical behavior: The critical role of moral emotions. In M. A. Hitt (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.117
  • Korsgaard, M.A., Meglino, B.M., & Jeong, S.S. (2010). The role of motivational orientations in formal and informal control. In L. B. Cardinal, S. B. Sitkin, & K. M. Bijlsma-Frankema (Eds.), Control in Organizations: New Directions in Theory and Research. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • Korsgaard, M.A., Pitariu, A.H., & Jeong, S.S. (2008). Trust in management: An interpersonal perspective. In J. Barling & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior (Vol. 1, pp. 89-105). London: SAGE.

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