DONG-ONE KIM is Associate Professor of Employment Relations at Korea University in Seoul. Prior to joining the faculty of Korea University in 1997, he was on the faculty of the School of Business at the State University of New York, Oswego. His research articles cover the areas of high-performance work organizations and such workplace innovations as skill-based pay, gainsharing, employee investment, and mutual-gains bargaining. He also has keen research interests in recent employment relations issues in Asia. He has consulted widely on industrial relations and human resource management issues