Rate My Professor Daejeong Choi

Associate Professor Daejeong Choi is Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning) in the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD in Management and Leadership from the University of Iowa, United States, and a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Korea University, South Korea. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2013 as a Lecturer and has progressed to his current associate professorship. Choi teaches courses in Strategic Human Resource Management, HR analytics, and Research Methods at undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels. He is affiliated with the Centre for Asian Business and Economics and serves on the Department of Management and Marketing Advisory Board.

Daejeong Choi's research focuses on strategic human capital, relationships at work, cross-cultural management, HR analytics, and global talent mobility. He investigates how human capital factors—including personality, values, and demographic characteristics—influence employees' perceptions, interpretations, attributions, and reactions to their work environments. His work emphasizes leadership, career development, social capital such as interpersonal relationships, shared identity, and reciprocity, and their impacts on individual, team, and organizational outcomes. This includes implications for leadership competency models in cross-cultural teams and multicultural workforces amid global mobility. He has received funding from the Australian Research Council, including as Chief Investigator on Discovery Project DP220103223 in 2022. His scholarship appears in top journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, and Human Resource Management Review. Key publications include "Fired up or burned out? How developmental challenge differentially affects career establishment and discouragement over time" (2014), "The dual effects of task conflict on team creativity" (2019), "Understanding organizational commitment: A meta-analytic examination of the roles of the five-factor model of personality and culture" (2015), and "Between fit and flexibility? The benefits of high-performance work systems" (2020). With over 2,300 citations on Google Scholar, his research contributes to advancements in organizational behavior and human resource management. He has featured on the Ear to Asia podcast discussing work-life balance in South Korea.