Public Administration and Health Management

Phone:

765-455-9539

Email:

hyunhur@iu.edu

Campus:

IU Kokomo

Biography

Hyunkang (H.K.) Hur, Ph.D. is an assistant 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 SungKyungKwan 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 Personnel Management (PPM) and International Journal of Public Sector Management (IJPSM).

Education

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Kohei Suzuki & Hyunkang Hur.(2019). Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment: Findings from a Comparative Study of 20 European Countries. Forthcoming in Public Management Review

• Hyunkang Hur & James L. Perry (2019) Job Security Rule Changes and Employee Organizational Commitment” Forthcoming in Review of Public Personnel Administration  

• Hyunkang Hur. (2019). Job Security Matters: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between job security and work attitudes. Journal of Management & Organization. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2019.3

• 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. 2019; e1916. https://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 Development (EJTD). https:doi.org/10.1008/EJTD-09-2018-0090

• 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. (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)

• Hyunkang Hur and 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