Youjeong Song

Youjeong Song is a Ph.D. candidate in the Work and Organizations Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Youjeong's research focuses on understanding the experiences of people from diverse backgrounds and promoting supportive workplace environments. She examines under-researched themes with implications for diversity and inclusion at work, such as language diversity, gender, and political ideology in the context of multilingual teams, migration, and recruitment.

In her dissertation, Youjeong investigates how language barriers impact individuals and teams in multilingual workplaces through two essays. Essay 1 examines the effects of three team language properties on team performance via team language barriers. In Essay 2, she introduces and explores the concept of "language brokerage," where individuals with language skills assist communication and facilitate interactions in situations with language barriers. Youjeong won the Beth E. Buchanan Graduate Scholarship from SIOP (2025), the Business for a Better World (B4BW) Dissertation Proposal Competition (2023) and the Carlson Dissertation Fellowship (2023), and was a finalist for the HumRRO Fellowship in I-O Psychology (2024). 

For her teaching, Youjeong won the Carlson Excellence in Teaching Award (2022) and the Dedication to Student Learning Award (2022). Youjeong is passionate about designing and leading Human Resources and Organizational Behavior undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. Youjeong also won the Best Reviewer Award from the Asia Academy of Management (2024) for her service.