Jaee Cho

Jaee Cho is Associate Professor of Practice in Organizational Behavior and Leadership at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, she was Assistant Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor Cho holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. She teaches courses on negotiation, organizational behavior, and leadership.

Professor Cho's research investigates how individuals navigate cultural difference and change in an era of globalization, focusing on two central questions: what drives people to embrace new ideas, others, and environments, and how individuals and organizations can mitigate the threats and conflicts that emerge in diverse environments. To address these questions, she employs a multi-method approach that includes laboratory experiments, field studies, longitudinal surveys, and archival analyses. Her dissertation received the Harry and Pola Triandis Doctoral Thesis Award from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, given biennially to the most outstanding dissertation in cultural psychology. Her work has been published in leading journals in management and psychology, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Discoveries, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
 

Selected publications

• Cho, J., Chao, M. M., Morris, M. W., Choi, J., & Savani, K. (in press). When cultural borrowing offends: Divergent effects of multiculturalist and polyculturalist ideologies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
• Cho, J., Morris, M. W., Blunden, H., Li, J. (K.), & Pan, J. (2026). Thinking like a chameleon: How diversity ideologies differentially enable cultural accommodation.Journal of Applied Psychology, 111(5), 586–603.
• Cho, J*., Wasti, S.A*., Savani, K., Tan H. H., & Morris, M. W (2024). Formal versus informal supervisor socio‐emotional support behaviours and employee trust: The role of cultural power distance. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 27(2), 203-218.
• Cho, J., Morris, M. W., & Dow, B. (2018). How Romans feel about visitors' doing "as Romans do": Diversity ideologies and trust in evaluations of cultural accommodation. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4(1), 11–31
• Cho, J., & Morris, M. W. (2015). Cultural study and problem‐solving gains: Effects of study abroad, openness, and choice. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36, 944-966.

Education

• Ph.D., Management 
  Columbia University, Graduate School of Business
• M.A., Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 
  Columbia University
• M.A., Cultural and Social Psychology 
  Korea University
• B.A., Psychology & History 
  Korea University