[New faculty special] ‘Education that helps people to ask good questions is important’ <Professor Park Tae-yoon>
- bizskk
- Hit210
- 2024-01-30
Our business school is strengthening its educational and research capabilities, which are its core values, and is striving to cultivate talent for student success and future value creation. To this end, new faculty with outstanding capabilities were invited in the second semester of the 2023 school year. This time, we met Professor Park Tae-yoon of <Management Major>, a new faculty member who has joined the College of Business Administration family, and heard about his ‘major research activities, major, and future plans’.
Q1. Hello, professor, it's nice to meet you like this! Please introduce yourself.
Hello. My name is ParkTae-yoon, a professor majoring in management who has been newly appointed since last August. Nice to meet you. I returned to Korea after working as a professor at Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management for 7 years and at Cornell University, Department of Human Resources Studies for 4 years. I didn't think so either, but I worked as a professor in the U.S. for 11 years. I am very excited and happy to come to my home country and see the students on campus. In particular, Sungkyunkwan University's business school has recently grown significantly to the point where it is noticeable overseas, and I am glad that I can be a part of that growth story.
Q2. Please briefly introduce your major and what made you choose it?
I am researching ways for organizations and employees to thrive together. Specifically, we are looking at how organizations can define the way they establish relationships with employees, and which types of organization-employee relationships will be more effective and in what environments. In relation to this, a lot of research has been done on the design of organizational systems, especially turnover systems, compensation systems, and parental leave systems.
In the past, when I decided to go to business school as an undergraduate, I went because I heard it would help me get a job, but then the IMF financial crisis occurred, so-called popular workplaces closed down, and everyone was confused about work and life. , it made me think again about what it means to be good at getting a job. I had been thinking about finding something meaningful to do within business administration, but I found it interesting to discuss how the management field balances the interests of organizations and employees, so I studied and soon became a producer and transmitter of related knowledge.
Q3. Please tell us how you feel about starting anew at Sungkyunkwan University's business school and your future plans.
I've just been in office, but seeing students teaming, discussing, and presenting all over campus gives me a lot of energy. In the future, I would like to help students both inside and outside the classroom so that they can have a meaningful college experience. In this regard, if there is a student who is interested in research and teaching, I would like to actively support them, help them study abroad, and foster future students. Additionally, there are many professors in our business school who are good at research and teaching, so I would like to learn a lot and collaborate through conversations with them.
Q4. Please briefly introduce your class.
Currently, I am teaching research methodology in master's and doctoral courses, and next year I plan to lecture on personnel management or human resource management. In order for an organization to be managed effectively, activities such as establishing strategies and goals and introducing new technologies are important, but in order for all such activities to be carried out and operated effectively, it ultimately depends on what mindset and attitude the people working within the organization have when working. It may be important, but there is a tendency to dismiss these aspects of practice and operation as the realm of art, not science. In my lecture, I plan to make time to discuss human resource management cases and look at related scientific evidence.
Q5. What are your future research plans?
We plan to continue researching the relationship between organizations and employees and related management systems. So far, I have done a lot of research on overseas cases and data in the United States, but now I am thinking of discussing it more closely with Korean company officials and, if possible, conducting practical research to change actual organizations.
Q6. Please tell us what you think is the ideal educator.
I think education that helps you ask good questions is important. Although it is important to search for good answers, there is pleasure in asking good questions and creating opportunities for other people to have fun conversations and think together. To ask such good questions, you need to do a lot of research and think about it yourself. Therefore, I think it is an important role in university education to train students to think in that way and create opportunities for such questions and discussions.
Q7. Please tell me if you have anything you want to say to the students who are studying hard at Sungkyunkwan University's business school!
Don't be too impatient. It is necessary and important to think hard about everything and work with passion, but I don't want you to think that such efforts will necessarily bring rewards in the direction you think. Efforts can bring rewards in unexpected ways. And try lots of fun things!