Biography

Hyunkang (H.K.) Hur, Ph.D. is an associate professor of public management in the Department of Public Administration and Health Management (PAHM), School of Business at Indiana University Kokomo. He joined the PAHM, School of Business at the Indiana University Kokomo in 2016. He earned a Ph.D. in Public Management and Policy Analysis from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park. He completed his B.A. in Public Administration with a Business Administration minor from SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, South Korea. Professor Hur’s research interests are public management, human resource management in the public sector, organizational behavior, public program evaluation, public sector employee work attitudes and behavior, work motivation, comparative public administration, quantitative research methods, and meta-analysis. Professor Hur has published peer-reviewed articles in Public Administration Review (PAR), Public Management Review (PMR), Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA), Public Personnel Management (PPM), Public Money & Management (PMM), Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration (APJPA), Social Justice Research (SJO), and International Journal of Public Administration (IJPA), and Journal of Management & Organization (JMO).

Education

Selected Publications:

• Hyunkang Hur & Gordon Abner. (2023). What Makes Public Employees Want to Leave Their Job? A Meta-Analysis of Turnover Intention Predictors Among Public Sector Employees. Online First. Public Administration Review. doi.org/10.1111/puar.13601 

• Gordon Abner & Hyunkang Hur. (2023, January 11). What Keeps Public Employees in their Jobs? It’s Not Just Pay. Government Executive. https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/01/what-keeps-public-employees-their-jobs-its-not-just-pay/381709/ 

• Hyunkang Hur. (2022). Job insecurity and its effect on organizational performance: Does Senior Executive Services (SES) accountability make a difference? Online first. International Journal of Public Administration. pp.1-13. doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2043367

• Chae Young Chang, Hyunkang Hur, & Daewoo Lee. (2022). Too much of a Good Thing? Looking for the Inverted U-Shaped relationship between organizational tenure and perceived performance. Online First. Public Organization Review. pp.1-20. doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00672-3 

• Hyunkang Hur. (2022). Job Security Matters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Job Security and Work Attitudes. Journal of Management & Organization, 28(5):925-955. doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2019.3

• Kohei Suzuki & Hyunkang Hur. (2022). Revisiting the Old Debate: Citizens’ perceptions of meritocracy in Public and Private Organization,” Public Management Review. 24(8):1226-1250. doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1895545

• Daewoo Lee, Chae Young Chang, & Hyunkang Hur. (2021). Political consequences of income inequality: Assessing the relationship between perceived distributive fairness and political efficacy in Asia,” Social Justice Research. 34(3):342-372. doi:10.1007/s11211-021-00371-2.

• Hyunkang Hur. (2020). The role of inclusive work environment practices in promoting LGBT employee job satisfaction and affective commitment in the US federal workforce. Public Money & Management, 40(6):426-436. doi: 10.1080/09540962.2019.1681640

• Hyunkang Hur& James L. Perry. (2020). Job Security Rule Changes and Employee Organizational Commitment. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 40(4):641-668. doi.org/10.1177/0734371X19842622

• Kohei Suzuki & Hyunkang Hur. (2020). Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment: Findings from a Comparative Study of 20 European Countries. Public Management Review, 22(6):877-907. doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1619813

• Daewoo Lee, Chae Young, Chang, & Hyunkang Hur. (2020). Economic performance, income inequality and political trust: New evidence from a cross-national study of 14 Asian countries. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 42(2): 66-88. doi.org/10. 1080/23276665.2020.1755873.

• Hyunkang Hur. (2019). Impact of “U.S. Veterans’ Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014” on Employee morale and work behavior: Does “Creating an at-will workplace” lead to better outcomes? Journal of Public Affairs 19 (2), 1-31. doi.org/10.1002/pa.1916

• Hyunkang Hur & Hyesong Ha. (2019). The Link between Perceptions of Fairness, Job Training Opportunity and At-Will Employees’ Work Attitudes: Lessons from U.S. Georgia State Government. European Journal of Training and Development43(3/4), 375-397. doi.org/10.1008/EJTD-09-2018-0090

• Hyunkang Hur. (2018). The Unintended Consequences of Pay-for-Performance Rule Change: U.S. Department of Defense’s National Security Personnel System. International Journal of Public Sector Management. 31(6):654-671. doi:10.1108/IJPSM-09-2016-0147

• Kohei Suzuki & Hyunkang Hur (2018). Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross National Study of 20 European Countries. The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg, QOG Working Paper Series9:1-41.

• Hyunkang Hur & James L. Perry. (2016). Evidence-Based Change in Public Job Security Policy: A Research Synthesis and Its Practical Implications. Public Personnel Management. 45(3):264-283. doi:10.1177/0091026016663234

Awards/Honors:

• 2022 Indiana University Kokomo Summer Faculty Fellowships
• 2021 Indiana University Kokomo Distinguished Research and Creative Activity Award
• 2020 Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration (APJPA) Best Article Award
• 2020 Indiana University Overseas Conference Grant
• 2019 Indiana University Kokomo Junior Faculty Scholarship Award