Herman Aguinis

Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business, where he also served as chair of the Department of Management, and director of the Master of Human Resources Management. Every year since 2018, and for the 8th consecutive year, Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports has ranked him among the world's 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business. He served as president of the Academy of Management (AOM) and has been inducted into The PhD Project Hall of Fame. His work has received about 82,000 Google Scholar (h-index = 114) and over 30,000 Web of Science citations. Before joining GWU, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the founding and managing director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. In addition, he has held appointments at universities in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Argentina, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York.

His interdisciplinary research focuses on behavioral and policy issues regarding the global acquisition and deployment of talent in organizations and research methods, technology, and analytics (i.e., behavioral science and data science). Recent projects address the nature and future of work (e.g., AI, remote work, digitalization), corporate social responsibility and business sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership, human capital development, performance management and star performance, interpersonal relationships at work, and innovative methodological approaches for developing and testing theories. His professional and life agenda is to impact the academic community and also society at large. Visit his YouTube channel to learn more by watching and listening to over 500 videos and podcasts (some created using AI).

Professor Aguinis has written about 240 refereed journal articles and 50 book chapters, monographs, and other publications. He has delivered about 50 keynote speeches, over 340 presentations at professional conferences, and about 200 invited presentations on all seven continents except for Antarctica. He secured over $5MM from private foundations and federal sources (e.g., National Science Foundation). Demonstrating his interdisciplinary orientation, his research has been published in all seven journals of the Academy of Management.

He has published 13 books, including Research Methodology: Best Practices for Rigorous, Credible, and Impactful Research (2025); Performance Management (5th edition, 2023; also published in Chinese, Arabic, and Persian/Farsi); Applied Psychology in Talent Management (9th edition, 2025, with W.F. Cascio; also published in Chinese); Performance Management for Dummies (2019); Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators; and the following edited volumes: Opening the Black Box of Editorship (with Y. Baruch, A.M. Konrad, & W.H. Starbuck) and Test-Score Banding in Human Resource Selection.

He has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and has been inducted into the Society for Organizational Behavior. He received Distinguished Career Awards for lifetime scholarly contributions from four different Academy of Management Divisions, including Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, and Research Methods; the Losey Award by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for lifetime achievement in human resource research; SIOP Scientific Contributions Award for lifetime contributions; AOM Career Award for Service Contributions demonstrating lifetime excellence in helping to build institutions through creative and unusually effective service; AOM Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing outstanding impact on policy making and managerial and organizational practices; AOM Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award; International Council for Small Business Global Leadership Excellence Award in Support of MSMEs; and Indiana University Dr. Martin Luther King Building Bridges Award for promoting justice. In addition, he received 10 best-article-of-the-year awards (four of them with his doctoral students) from Journal of Management (decade award, five-year award), Personnel Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior (twice), Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning and Education (decade award), Organizational Research Methods, Business Horizons, and Management Research.

He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods, Co-Editor-in-Chief of special issues of the Journal of Management on "bridging micro and macro research domains," Journal of International Business Studies on "quantitative methodology in IB," Personnel Psychology on "corporate social responsibility," Journal of World Business on "methodological advances in international business research," and International Journal of Management Reviews on “Grand societal challenges: The contributions of business, management, and organization studies,” and Contributing Editor of Business Horizons. He also served as President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, as founding associate editor of the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and serves or has served on the editorial board of over 30 journals published in the US, Brazil, France, Kuwait, Spain, and South Africa.

Professor Aguinis has taught courses in the areas of talent management, organizational behavior, employment and organizational issues, and research methods and analysis, such as performance management, foundations of management, human capital and talent acquisition, training and development, staffing, global organizational effectiveness, international management, statistics, and organizational research methods. He has taught and delivered presentations at universities in the Americas (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico), Asia (e.g., Afghanistan, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore), Oceania (i.e., Australia, New Zealand), Europe (e.g., Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, UK), and Africa (Egypt, South Africa).

In addition to his academic activities, Professor Aguinis has consulted with organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America (he is a native Spanish speaker and speaks French fluently), including the United Nations, AT&T, Accenture, the City of San Francisco Police Department, and Sears Holdings Corp., among others. Regarding his impact on policy, the U.S. Department of State appointed him to serve a five-year term on the Board of Examiners for the United States Foreign Service, he provided expert testimony and written briefs for several high-profile court cases (i.e., U.S. District Court level), and served as SIOP representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and his research has been referred to in court cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. District Court levels. Also, his research is featured regularly on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter/X (over 44,000 followers combined, over 1.2 million views and 330,000 people reached in the past year), YouTube, as well as traditional media outlets in the U.S. and abroad, including Bloomberg, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, National Public Radio, USA Today, HR Magazine, and Univision, among others.