Introducing Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi
Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi, PhD · MBA · ME
Prof. Dr. Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi, Managing Director of K-GSP
Jeonghwan (Jerry) Choi is Associate Professor of Business Administration and managine editor of K-GSP.
Full list of his K-GSP columns:
He teaches human resource management, organizational leadership, change management, and data-driven decision making in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Master of Science in Business programs. He spent more than 15 years as Management Professor in New Jersey, Maine, and China.
His path into management scholarship began in engineering. He earned a Bachelor and a Master of Engineering from Inha University. He then worked for five years at Robert Bosch in Korea as an R&D engineer and project manager, where he launched anti-lock brake system motor lines supplied to automakers in Asia, Europe, and North America.
He went on to earn MBAs from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management and from HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and consulted for Dow Chemical, Vita 34, and the EON Group.
He completed his PhD in Human Resource Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. While there, he co-founded UC Smiles, a local-currency social enterprise that grew to more than 75 participating businesses.
Dr. Choi is Principal Investigator of an international Workplace Toxicity Research Initiative, a Review Board member for Human Resource Development Quarterly, and a member of AI Faculty Council.
He co-founded the K-GSP Forum in 2026 and serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of K-Global Scholars and Professionals. He works in English, Korean, and Chinese.
Research Topics
Organizational toxicity and leadership
Positive organizational behavior (psychological capital) and self-directed employee behavior
Workforce resilience through temporal resource activation
Agile management and employee behavior
Human–AI interaction in career and talent development
Social entrepreneurship and sustainable talent development (SDG 17)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
Choi, J., Lee, S., Chae, C., & Vaccaro, V. (2025). Gendered morality and positivity in social entrepreneurship: A trend analysis across global crises. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2025.2498742
Choi, J., Yao, Z., & Kim, S. (2026). Developing and validating the Organizational Health and Toxicity Scale: Insights from a healthcare system crisis. Human Resource Development International. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2026.2678804
Choi, J. (2019). The mediating effect of positive psychological capital between autonomous work environment and self-directed behavior: Evidence from South Korea. Human Resource Development International, 23(1), 46–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2019.1632094
Kennedyd, S. I., Zadeh, A. A., Alborz, S., Ramezani, R., & Choi, J. (2026). Agile implementation and its dual impact on employee satisfaction and project outcomes in IT. Information Systems Management, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10580530.2025.2610940
Yoo, S., & Choi, J. (2026). From career ladders to digital jungle gyms: An HRD theoretical framework for understanding human–AI interaction in career development. Human Resource Development Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15344843261491397
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