Mihwa Seong

Mihwa Seong

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Seong

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Mihwa

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mihwa.seong@unisg.ch

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0000-0001-6884-3264

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Does gendered wording in job advertisements deter women from joining start-ups? A replication and extension of Gaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011)

( 2024)
Mihwa Seong
;
Simon Parker

Gaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011: “GFK” hereafter) found that women perceive jobs to be less appealing when job adverts use masculine wording—a result they attributed to women's lower evaluations of “belongingness.” As masculine wording is used more often in male-dominated jobs, GFK concluded that gendered wording in job adverts may deter women from entering such jobs. In light of growing general interest in joining new ventures (“start-ups”), we replicate and extend GFK's study to compare start-ups and established firms. Interestingly, we find that GFK's original findings are replicated in the context of start-ups, but not in established firms. We propose and adduce evidence that the unique context of start-ups may prime women to respond especially sensitively to gendered wording, via positive expectancy violation.

Type: journal article

Journal: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

DOI: 10.1002/sej.1489

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/119470
Friend or fiend? Disentangling upward humor's (De)stabilizing effects on hierarchies

( 2023-10)
Jamie Gloor
;
Niels Van Quaquebeke
;
Mihwa Seong
;
Petra Schmid
;
Christian Alexander Hildebrand
;
Brad Bitterly
;
Maurice Schweitzer

Humor research in organizations focuses on leaders' humor, but we know far less about followers' humor. Here, we review and synthesize the scattered work on this "upward humor," offering a novel framing of it as a strategy for followers to deal with hierarchies. We propose a continuum of upward humor from stabilizing (i.e., a friend who uses upward humor to reinforce hierarchies, make hierarchies more bearable or stable) to destabilizing (i.e., a fiend who uses upward humor to question or reshape existing hierarchies) depending on perceived intent (i.e., from benevolent to malicious, respectively) and outline key factors that shape these interpretations. We close with novel questions and methods for future research such as power plays, multi-modal data, and human-robot interactions.

Type: journal article

Journal: Current Opinion in Psychology

Volume: 53

URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37597426/

DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101667

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/119254
Diversity in Elite Leadership: Global Effects, New Outcome Variables, and Deep Dives Into Processes

( 2023)
Alison M. Konrad
;
Yang Yang
;
Diana Bilimoria
;
Cynthia E. Clark
;
Ryan Miller
;
Martha L. Maznevski
;
Mihwa Seong
;
Jamie Gloor
;
Amanda Shantz
;
Philipp Sieger
;
Karlygash Assylkhan
;
Colin Birkhead

Type: conference paper

Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings

DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2023.14107symposium

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117935
Friend vs. fiend? A review of follower humor

( 2023)
Jamie Gloor
;
Mihwa Seong
;
Petra Schmid
;
Niels Van Quaquebeke
;
Christian Alexander Hildebrand

Humor is prolific across our professional lives. Most humor research in organizations has focused on leaders’ humor, showing that more humorous leaders are better leaders. But a key feature of professional contexts—hierarchy—deeply shapes the nature and effects of humor, particularly for understudied groups: followers and those who are relatively lower in the hierarchy. In this interdisciplinary review of upward humor, we consolidate key themes across theories and literatures to propose an overarching model of behavioral humor while also parsimoniously organizing key outcomes along agency and communality. So, as alluded in our title, upwardly humorous employees can be viewed as friend—or fiend—generating more variable reactions than leaders due to their relatively lower position in the hierarchy.

Type: conference paper

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117318
Flirting, jokes, and compliments: How female leaders shape a key source of entrepreneurial well-being

( 2023)
Mihwa Seong
;
Jamie Gloor
;
Amanda Shantz
;
Philipp Sieger

Entrepreneurship is an intensely stressful journey that can undermine entrepreneurial well-being. While most research on entrepreneurial well-being has focused on individual characteristics as key antecedents, we examine the role of an overlooked but highly prevalent intra-team social experience on entrepreneur well-being: Social Sexual Behavior (SSB). To do so, we draw on interaction ritual theory to explain the mixed evidence of how these non-work-related behaviors with a sexual component (e.g., flirting, joking, and complimenting on physical appearances) affect worker well-being. That is, when SSB is frequent and part of the interaction ritual (i.e., accepted forms of behavior incorporated into scripted routine interactions that facilitates organizing social relations), SSB is positively associated with well-being. In contrast, if SSB is rare and not accepted as an interaction ritual, SSB is negatively associated with well-being, because SSB is flagged as a negative behavior that deviates from accepted forms of behavior and hinders social relations. By facilitating or hindering social relations, the frequency of experienced SSB at work predicts receiver well-being according to a U-shaped function. But given leaders’ critical influence on team norms and rituals, we examine how leaders shape SSB’s effects on entrepreneurial well-being and if this differs by leader gender. As female (vs. male) leaders may be more responsive to gendered interaction dynamics like SSB, we propose a moderating effect of female leadership on the previously hypothesized U-shaped effect of SSB on receiver well-being, such that the U-shape is more pronounced with greater shares of female leaders. Finally, because men may feel more negative emotions in post-#MeToo era mixed-gender interactions—perhaps especially male employees with female leaders—anxiety may be amplified (or mitigated) when female leaders problematize (or accommodate) SSB, such that the moderating effect of the share of female leaders on receiver well-being is stronger for male (vs. female) receivers. Analyses of an international sample of entrepreneurs from the 2018 GUESSS dataset (n=11,177) generally support our theorizing. A pair of experiments are also planned to causally replicate and extend these results. This research contributes to the entrepreneurship, leadership, and diversity literatures by clarifying the mixed effects of SSB on well-being in the literature with more precise, non-linear theorizing tested in the masculine context of entrepreneurship. This research also fits well with the conference theme by examining how leaders shape follower well-being, represented by co-owners and founders (respectively).

Type: conference paper

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117613
Building Diverse and Inclusive Social Networks: New Theories and Empirical Evidence

( 2023)
Mihwa Seong
;
Jamie Gloor
;
Raina Brands
;
Ko Kuwabara
;
Paul Ingram
;
Tatiana Lluent
;
Gianluca Carnabuci
;
Eugenia Bajet Mestre
;
Isabelle Engeler
;
Meredith Woehler
;
Julia Stevenson-street
;
Courtney Hart

Type: conference paper

Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.14965symposium

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117934
Should I stay or should I go? Effect of female representation in TMT on career choices of women employees

( 2023)
Mihwa Seong
;
Simon C. Parker
;
Tianjiao (Chloe) Xu

Type: conference paper

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117614
FLIRTING, JOKES, AND COMPLIMENTS: AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL WELL-BEING?

( 2024)
Mihwa Seong
;
Jamie Gloor
;
Amanda Shantz
;
Philipp Sieger

Even seemingly minor workplace interactions can influence well-being in powerful ways—perhaps especially for entrepreneurs who are particularly at risk of both enhanced and dimin-ished well-being (see Stephan et al., 2023). Here, we focus on a specific category of seemingly minor interactions: flirting, jokes, and physical compliments (i.e., non-work-related verbal or nonverbal behavior with a sexual component referred to as “social sexual behavior” or SSB; Gutek et al., 1990). Despite being common workplace experiences, the literature generally over-looks SSB, perhaps because of its polarizing name. But thus far, existing evidence of SSB’s effects on well-being is mixed, showing that SSB promotes (e.g., Sheppard et al., 2020) or harms (e.g., Berdahl & Aquino, 2009) workers’ well-being. Aligned with the OSWC 2024 theme to explore new directions with complex organizational phenomena, we aim to make sense of these conflicting findings by identifying when and why SSB helps or harms well-being. To do so, we leverage the entrepreneurship context as an ideal, “extreme setting” to test the effect of non-harassing SSB on well-being. we theorize that SSB can do both—help and harm employee well-being—depending on its frequency, because its frequency is a key signal of the act as nor-mative (or not), thus helping or harming entrepreneur well-being (respectively). To do this, we also take a non-linear approach, which is inherently complex but also represents a new direction for organizational behavior and entrepreneurship research—the core literatures to which we aim to contribute.

Type: conference poster

Journal: Organization Science Winter Conference

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/119688

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