An Interview with Oh Eun-ji on Participation in Management International Conference with Chinese University of Hong
- bizskk
- Hit638
- 2022-05-10
On April 8th (Fri), a management conference was held at our business school with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Two graduate students (Kim Yoon and Oh Eun-ji) majoring in management at our university participated in the conference and had time to present their respective research fields. We hope that these international conferences will continue through various studies in the future, and we listened to Oh Eun-ji's research field and paper.
<The influence of founder CEO’s human capital on the relationship between workforce gender diversity and venture firm performance>
(Advisor : Kim Young-sang)
1. Hello, please introduce yourself briefly.
Hello, I'm Oh Eun-ji. I am in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Management at the Business School, and I am researching the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM). I'm mainly studying changes in the personnel system, the composition of human resources, the entry and exit of that composition, and ultimately how those factors affect the performance of the company. Specifically, we have been working on workforce composition, such as collective turnover and diversity.
2. Please tell me if you have any motivation to participate in this international conference.
Professors majoring in management guided details such as how to run the conference in advance in the same way as an authoritative academic conference. Since it was the first international joint conference, there was a bit of a burden to submit the manuscript, but thankfully, professor Kim Young-sang, an advisor, encouraged me to study, so I was able to participate in this precious opportunity.
3. Please introduce the paper <The influence of founder CEO’s human capital on the relationship between workforce gender diversity and venture firm performance> that was released this time.
The study I'm going to present this time identifies how gender diversity in venture companies negatively affects the financial performance of venture companies and reveals that the human capital of the CEO, the founder and CEO of venture companies, is a factor that can alleviate this negative relationship. Specifically, the CEO's human capital was divided into three categories : entrepreneurial experience, and industry experience, and the mutual effect was confirmed.
Through this study, I wanted to contribute to the diversity literature and human capital literature, and to this end, I wanted to present two major theoretical implications. First, from a diversity literature perspective, we wanted to raise the negative relationship between gender diversity and group performance within the group to the corporate level and newly verify that there is still a negative relationship at the corporate level. Second, from a human capital literature perspective, gender diversity is a potential resource from a human capital perspective, and it is also significant in that it identifies how this resource interacts with other types of resources called CEO's human capital.
4. Where there any difficulties while writing the paper?
Personally, I think every step of writing a paper is hard and difficult. But to pick one, I think the most difficult process is to logically develop a hypothesis or argument on a theoretical basis. I try my best to develop the thesis so that people who have no prior knowledge in the field I major in can understand clearly even if they read the thesis, but it always seems to be lacking.
5. Please tell us about your future goals or areas you want to study.
My big goal is to be a sincere researcher with a humble and warm heart in all aspects such as research, education, and student guidance, like professor Kim Young-sang, a professor of guidance, and management major. As professors have shown me in person, I want to be a humble person who studies constantly. As a small goal, I would like to conduct more research within SHRM. Specifically, I would like to conduct research on non-regular workers and pay and benefits for the rest of my P.H.D. program.