Raymond A. Noe is the Robert and Anne Hoyt Professor of Management at The Ohio State University. He was previously a professor in the Department of Management at Michigan State University and the Industrial Relations Center of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his BS in psychology from The Ohio State University and his MA and PhD in psychology from Michigan State University. Professor Noe conducts research and teaches students at all levels undergraduate, MBA and PhD in human resource management, managerial skills, quantitative methods, human resource information systems, training, employee development, and organisational behaviour.

He has published articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. Professor Noe is currently on the editorial boards of several journals including Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Professor Noe has received awards for his teaching and research excellence, including the Herbert G. Heneman Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991 and the Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contribution from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 1993. He is also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Colin Winkler is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Management at the University of Tasmania in Australia, and has a background of Chartered Membership of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Membership of the Australian Institute of Training and Development and Associate Fellowship, Australian Institute of Management.

His career started at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, later shifting into the shipping, dairy manufacturing, and life insurance industries while completing his BA and then his BA with First Class Honours. He then moved into teaching at the University of Tasmania, the School of Administrative Studies at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and the School of Business at the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology where he was also Chairman of the Board of Studies. Gaining his MA for his thesis on the role of biography in the development of administrators, he subsequently returned to the University of Tasmania to complete his doctorate with a thesis on the environment-structure relationship in organisations managing protected areas. This led to co-authoring several management chapters in Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide, a book sponsored by the IUCN while teaching in the School of Management in Hobart. Col is now based at the University in Launceston.