Rate My Professor Ui Sun

Dr. Ui Young Sun is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, based at the Caulfield campus. He earned a B.S. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007, an M.S. in Business Administration specializing in Organizational Behavior from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Managerial Studies within the OB/HR program. Prior to academia, he served as a financial analyst at LG CNS for three years and as a senior manager at Baekhyangmok education for one year in South Korea. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Greenleaf Scholarship in 2019.

Sun's research focuses on leadership and employee motivation, including counterfactual thinking, regulatory focus, ethical leadership, servant leadership, leader influence tactics, and destructive leadership such as abusive supervision. He explores their effects on employee well-being, organizational citizenship behavior, knowledge sharing, taking charge, and other workplace outcomes. His scholarship is published in premier outlets including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Research, and Group & Organization Management. Select publications are 'Being on the same page matters: a meta-analytic investigation of leader–member exchange (LMX) agreement' (Yuan, Sun, Effinger, & Zhang, 2023, Journal of Applied Psychology); 'What does leaders’ abuse mean to me? Psychological empowerment as the key mechanism explaining the relationship between abusive supervision and taking charge' (Sun, Xu, Kluemper, Lu, & Yun, 2023, Group & Organization Management); 'Ethically treated yet closely monitored: ethical leadership, leaders' close monitoring, employees' uncertainty, and employees' organizational citizenship behavior' (Sun, Park, & Yun, 2024, Journal of Organizational Behavior); 'Ethical leadership and knowledge sharing: a social cognitive approach investigating the role of self-efficacy as a key mechanism' (Sun, Xu, Kluemper, McLarty, & Yun, 2024, Journal of Business Research); and 'How and when may leader influence tactics affect followers’ organizational citizenship behavior? A social cognitive approach' (Sun, Lee, & Yun, 2024, Group & Organization Management). Sun accepts PhD students, contributes to the Organisational Behaviour research group, and aligns his work with UN Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9, and 16.