Jaehee Jong

Jaehee Jong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University. She received her Ph.D. in public administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research focuses on public human resource management and organizational behavior, with a particular interest in the relationships between employees and organizations. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she draws on public administration, human resource management, and organizational psychology to understand how workplace practices and conditions shape employee attitudes, behavior and retention.

Her current research interests include recruitment and retention, employer branding and employee rewards, an aging workforce, emerging technologies in human resource management and local government workforce issues.

Areas of Expertise

• Public human resource management
• Organizational behavior
• Employee–organization relationships
• Local government workforce

Selected Publications

Hong, Y., Ford, M., & Jong, J. (2024). Employee benefit availability, use and subjective evaluation: A meta-analysis of relationships with perceived organizational support, affective organizational commitment, withdrawal, job satisfaction, and well-being. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(12), 1921–1947.

Ahn, Y., & Jong, J. (2024). Community diversity and social media use in local governments. Administration & Society, 56(9–10), 1083–1103.

Jong, J. (2023). The role of leader and subordinate gender in the leadership-empowerment relationship. Public Personnel Management, 52(3), 317–343.

Jong, J., Goodman, C., Deslatte, A., Crabtree, J., & Thurmaier, K. (2023). The forgotten governments: Exploring Midwestern township capacities and functional service responsibilities. State and Local Government Review, 55(2), 170–184.

Jong, J., & Ford, M. (2021). An exploration of the relationship between autonomy congruence, perceived supervisor individualized consideration, and employee outcomes. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 41(3), 566–592.

Jong, J. (2019). Racial diversity and task performance: The roles of formalization and goal setting in government organizations. Public Personnel Management, 48(4), 493–512.

Jong, J., & Ford, M. (2016). The lagged effects of job demands and resources on organizational commitment in federal government agencies: A multi-level analysis. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 26(3), 475–492.