Yonsei School of Business

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Ph.D. in Business Administration 

Seoul National University, College of Business Administration
M.S. in Business Administration 
B.B.A. (Summa Cum Laude)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, College of Business, Yonsei University
Assistant Professor, College of Business, Yonsei University 

Assistant Professor, School of Management, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York 

TEACHING INTERESTS

Organizational Behavior

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Workplace envy
Workplace mistreatment

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Tai, K., Keem, S., Lee, K., & Kim, E. (2024) Envy Influences Interpersonal Dynamics and Team Performance: Roles of Gender Congruence and Collective Team Identification. Journal of Management, 50, 556-587.  

*Tai, K., *Lee, K., *Kim, E., Johnson, T., Wang, W., Duffy, M. K., & Kim, S. (2022) Gender, bottom-line mentality, and workplace mistreatment:  The roles of gender norm violation and team gender composition. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 854-865. (*Equal Contribution)

Lee, K., & Duffy, M. K. (2019). A functional model of workplace envy and job performance: When do employees capitalize on envy by learning from envied targets? Academy of Management Journal, 62, 1085-1110.

Lee, K., Duffy, M.K., Scott, K.D., & Schippers, M.C. (2018). The experience of being envied at work: how being envied shapes employee feelings and motivation. Personnel Psychology, 71, 181-200. 

Dineen, B.R., Duffy, M.K., Henle, C.A., & Lee, K. (2017). Green by comparison: Deviant and normative transmutations of job search envy in a temporal context. Academy of Management Journal, 60, 295-320.

Lee, K., Kim, E., Bhave, D., & Duffy, M.K. (2016). Why victims of undermining at work become perpetrators of undermining: An integrative model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 6, 915-924. 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

Editorial Board Member, Personnel Psychology (2023-present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management (2025-present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Psychology (2018-present)
Chohun Scholary Award, 2021
Maekyung Economist Award, 2020
Excellence in Research Award, Yonsei School of Business, 2019
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 (Yonsei University)/ 2019, 2021, 2023 (Yonsei School of Business)
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Meeting, 2014
Anne Tsui Dare to Care Award, 2013
Finalist at INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2013
Small Grant Award, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), 2013
Juran Dissertation Fellowship Award, Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality, 2012