Kim, Seon Mi | MSW | PhD

Assistant Professor
Phone: (212) 396-7535
Office:
Email: sk7683@hunter.cuny.edu
Room: 432

Areas of Expertise:
Workplace development for precarious or underrepresented workers
Solidarity economic approaches for vulnerable populations
Social entrepreneurship and management
Gender and economic empowerment
Community economic development

Education:
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MSW, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MPP, Korea Development institute, S. Korea
MA, Sogang University, S.Korea

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Scholarship

Kim, S.M. (in press): Extending job crafting theory to precarious workers: A model of organizational job crafting for organizational justice. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior. 

Kim, S. M., & Mandiberg, J. (in press): Job crafting as a bottom-up organizational change for precarious workers: Organizational job crafting. The Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD).

Zhao, R., Bies, A., Kim, S. M. (in press): Employee Compensation of Nonprofit Child Welfare Agencies in New York: Crises and Strategies. Submitted to Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

Kim, S. M., Jung, C., Nam, Y., Lee E. (2024) Alone or Together? Korean Americans’ perspectives on solidarity against hate for the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. Advanced online publication.. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/731742

Kim. S. M. & Balgopal, P. (2023). Asian Americans: Overview. Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work article. Oxford University Press.


Research

Social & Solidarity economic approaches and precarious workers’ self-motivated changes
- Conceptual model development of job crafting of precarious workers.
- The impacts of organizational forms and strategies of worker cooperatives and trade unions on home care workers’ job crafting behaviors.