Sanghoon Lee

Sang-Hoon (Hoon) Lee is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University. Sang-Hoon earned his Ph.D. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he earned this B.S. in Business Administration and M.S. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Hanyang University.

Sang-Hoon conducts research to understand and advance employees’ well-being in both their work and personal lives. By using theories and methodology from the field of organizational and social psychology and management, his research primarily focuses on the mixed impact that workaholism and workaholics have on others in the workplace, the dark side of prosocial behaviors, and employment relations to foster a positive workplace. His work on workaholism and the overwork culture/climate of workplaces has earned recognition from the Association of Korean Management Scholars at the Academy of Management, receiving the Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI) Best Paper Award, and has been supported by various research grants, including the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award funded by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work has been published in the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business and Psychology, Group and Organization Management, and Current Psychology.

During his time at Illinois, he led and assisted in instructing classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including an introductory course to OB/HRM and a research methods and statistics in HR course. These courses prepared students interested in pursuing a career in HR while guiding them to understand real-world organizational issues.