Jiyun Baek
- Doctoral Student
Bio
Jiyun Baek is a doctoral student in Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds an undergraduate and master's degree from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, where she built an academic foundation in organizational behavior and human resource management.
Her research focuses on AI governance, digital governance, and public-sector accountability. She examines how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies reshape administrative decision-making, accountability relationships, and institutional arrangements in public organizations. A central theme of her work is how governments can adopt and use new technologies while preserving democratic values such as transparency, fairness, responsiveness, and public accountability.
Her current research also explores the organizational and institutional conditions that shape technology adoption and implementation, including leadership, formal rules, administrative capacity, and employee perceptions of technological change. Across these areas, she is particularly interested in how technological innovation affects both public organizations and citizen-state interactions, and how governance systems can be designed to support responsible, effective, and equitable uses of emerging technologies.
Research Interest
Public Management, Digital Governance and Algorithmic Decision-Making, Data-Based Administration, Digital Divide, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Education
M.A. Public Policy and Management, Yonsei University
B.A. Public Administration, Yonsei University
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Selected Publications
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Baek, J. (2026). Motivated to exhaustion? Public service motivation, curvilinear strain, and the buffer of collaborative culture. International Public Management Journal, online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2026.2710329
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Baek, J., & Han, Y. (2026). The double edge of public service motivation: Promoting and preventing unethical pro-organizational behavior through organizational identification and ethical leadership. Review of Public Personnel Administration, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X261438161
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Park, J. W., Baek, J., & Cho, Y. J. (2025). Does performance rating discrepancy mediate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job satisfaction? A comparative study of public and private sectors. Public Personnel Management, 55(2), 224-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/00910260251369528