Mijeong Kwon

Assistant Professor

Rice University

Mijeong Kwon, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Management in Organizational Behavior at Rice University. Dr. Kwon’s research centers around the social dynamics of work motivation─how individuals communicate their reasons for working and evaluate others based on their motivations. In her most recent paper, Dr. Kwon and her colleagues found that people who love their work are more likely to consider this intrinsic motivation a moral virtue. Dr. Kwon suggests that this tendency to evaluate colleagues based on their motivations for work may prevent people from recognizing and validating diverse reasons people work, such as supporting their families.