Luis R. Gomez-Mejia is a full professor of management in the College of Business
at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU, he taught at the University
of Colorado and the University of Florida. He has also been on the faculty at Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid and Instituto de Empresas and has offered seminars
in both Spanish and English in many countries and universities around the world. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in industrial relations from the College of
Business at the University of Minnesota and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in economics
from the University of Minnesota. Prior to entering academia, Professor
Gomez-Mejia worked in human resources for the City of Minneapolis and Control
Data Corporation and served as consultant to numerous organizations. He has served two terms on the editorial board of the Academy of Management
Journal and is editor and co-founder of two journals: Journal of High Technology
Management Research and Management Research. Dr. Gomez-Mejia has published
more than 100 articles in the most prestigious management journals including the
Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science
Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Industrial Relations, and Personnel Psychology.
He has also written and edited a dozen management books. Dr. Gomez-Mejia has received numerous awards including “best article” in
the Academy of Management Journal and the Outstanding Alumni Award at University
of Minnesota. He has been named a Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished
Scholar at Arizona State University every year since 1994, holds the Horace Steel
Chair at Arizona State University, is a member of the Academy of Management Journal’s
Hall of Fame, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He is also president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management (an affiliate
of the Academy of Management), which covers Spain and Portugal, all of
Latin America, and Hispanic faculty in U.S. universities. David B. Balkin is the chair of the Management Division and is a full professor
in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado. Previously
he was an associate professor at the university. Before joining the University
of Colorado in 1988, he taught at Louisiana State University and
Northeastern University. He served as a visiting professor for the University of
Toulouse in France and the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and has
also taught courses in Norway, Spain, Israel, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
He received his Ph.D. in industrial relations from the University of Minnesota
Graduate School of Business, where he specialized in human resources
management. He earned a master’s degree in industrial relations at the University
of Minnesota Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in political
science at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Balkin has been a
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management consultant for Control Data Corporation, a personnel analyst for
Honeywell Corporation, and a marketing research associate for National Broadcasting
Company. He also serves as an expert witness in cases involving pay and
employment discrimination.
Professor Balkin has served as associate editor for Human Resource Management
Review since 1997 and as a member of the editorial review board for the
Journal of High Technology Management Research since 1990. He has also been a
member of the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal and
serves as a reviewer for several publications. He is widely published in the professional
literature, most recently in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of
Business and Psychology, Group and Organization Management, Human Resource
Management Review, Journal of Compensation and Benefits, Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, and HR Magazine.
He is the author and editor of several books on human resources, the management
of innovation, compensation, and other topics. He has received the
North American Case Research Association’s Curtis E. Tate Jr. Outstanding Case
Writer award, the National Academy of Management’s Best Article of the Year
award, and the Western Academy of Management’s Outstanding Paper award.
Robert L. Cardy is chair of the Department of Management at the University of
Texas at San Antonio. Before joining UT–San Antonio, he taught at Arizona State
University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Virginia
Tech. His masters and undergraduate degrees are from Central Michigan
University. Dr. Cardy has consulted with a variety of organizations, particularly
in the areas of performance appraisal and competency model development and
implementation.
Professor Cardy has served multiple terms as a member of the executive
committee of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of
Management. He has regularly written columns for the HR Division Newsletter on
new and innovative issues since 1991. Dr. Cardy was the co-founder and editor of
the former Journal of Quality Management. He has been a member of the editorial
review boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Organizational
Behavior and serves as a reviewer for several publications. He has published articles
in a variety of journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Management Communication
Quarterly, and HR Magazine.
Dr. Cardy has authored or edited several books on human resource management
and performance management. He has twice received a “best paper”
award from the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management.
He has received a “University Mentor Award” for his work with doctoral
students at Arizona State University. He is also an honors Fellow of the W.
P. Carey School of Business for which he is a faculty mentor to teams of honors
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