Public Management : A Research Handbook

Sung Min Park (sm28386@skku.edu) is currently an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration & Graduate School of Governance at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He has also served as assistant professor in the Greenspun School of Environmental and Public Affairs (SEPA) at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Park conducts research on management and human resource management in the public sector, focusing on leadership; values and motivations; organizational culture and structure; organizational behavior and performance; human resource development; IT management; and human resource information systems in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. His academic work appears in American Review of Public Administration; Review of Public Personnel Administration; International Public Management Journal; Public Personnel Management; International Review of Administrative Sciences; Public Management Review; International Journal of Human Resource Management; and International Review of Public Administration. In 2005, Sung Min Park received Sage Publications’ Best Doctoral Conference Paper Award presented by the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. In 2006, Bill Collins Award for the outstanding doctoral student paper was presented to him at the 2006 Southeastern Conference for Public Administration. In 2008, he received the 2007 Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA) Best Article Award, conferred jointly by the American Society for Public Administration and Sage Publications. In the same year, he also received the 2007 Academy of Management (AOM) PNP Division Best Dissertation Award. In 2013, when he returned to Korea, he received the SKKU-Fellowship (Young Fellow) Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, conferred by Sungkyunkwan University. Until now, Park has served as a director of the Global MPA Program in the Graduate School of Governance at SKKU and has worked as a managing editor of Korean Social Science Journal. He is also serving as a guest reviewer/referee of a wide range of internationally renowned ISI indexed journals. He received his B.A. degree from Yonsei University in 1997 (from the Department of Political Science and International Studies) and his M.I.A. degree from Columbia University in 2002 (from the School of International and Public Affairs). He continued his formal education until 2007 when he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Georgia (from the Department of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs).