Washington University in St. Louis



Chan Hyung ParkBauer Hall Room 501, Snow Way, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States617-955-9366EducationWashington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO August 2017-CurrentPh.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO August 2013-May 2016Bachelor of Arts, ABMajors in Economics with DistinctionResearch InterestsProblem framing and formulation, top managers, managerial cognition, Knightian uncertainty, ambiguity Current ProjectsGetting to the Root of Things: Antecedents for Comprehensive Problem Formulation (under review), with Markus Baer.We theorize on cognitive factors that influence people’s problem formulation, or the identification of causes for problems. We focus on epistemic motivation (i.e., the drive for knowledge and learning) and construal levels (i.e., levels of abstraction in thinking). We conduct two experiments using Chinese top managers and working individuals in the U.S. We find that epistemic motivation drives problem formulation, and high construal levels strengthens the effects of epistemic motivation. Effects of Problem Framing on Problem Formulation (finalizing studies), with Markus Baer and Jackson Nickerson. We claim that the widely accepted view that leaders should focus on the big picture to formulate problems is incomplete and can be misleading. We propose that managers need first to think concretely and then formulate the problems at high construal levels, looking at the big picture. Low construal, concrete thinking will help people frame problems broadly and identify a high number of symptoms. These symptoms will be central in comprehensive formulation of problems, or a formulation that identifies a high number of relevant and nonredundant causes of problems. We expect that the number of symptoms will have an inverted-U shape effect given that too many symptoms will lead to information overload that reduces people’s attention and ignore most of the symptoms. High construal levels are one way to reduce cognitive overload and consider more symptoms, meaning that the maximum number of symptoms that managers can consider for problem formulation increases when they have high construal levels. Our theory provides a novel but accurate representation of how big picture thinking may be useful, and how its effects may depend on the concrete framing of problems. Three Tier Process in Strategizing (writing manuscript), with Markus Baer and Jackson Nickerson. We have designed a neuroscience-based, three-step process in problem-solving for top managers. We have conducted an experiment using teams of top managers in China (60 groups, 3-4 people per group). The treatment group received the three-step process while the control group engaged in the free discussion of the problems, followed by problem-solving. ServicesReviewer—Academy of Management, Special Conference on Big data, 2018; Academy of Management, Annual Conference, 2018; 2020. MembershipAcademy of Management. INFORMS.Other Conferences: Construal level Conference, 2019 (NYU) and 2020 (virtual). Open User Innovation Conference, 2018 (NYU).Strategy Science Conference, 2019 (University of Utah) and 2020 (virtual). AOM Annual Conference, 2018 (Chicago) and 2020 (virtual). AOM Special Conference on Big Data, 2018 (Surrey, UK).Organization Science Winter Conference, 2018 (Park City).Teaching Assistance: MGT 150, each semester since Fall, 2017. MGT 150 is an introductory course to management. I have been conducting individual and team-level surveys, analyzing data, and creating reports for both the instructors and students. Computer Skills:R and ExcelLanguages: Korean, English and Chinese ................
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