American researcher, business professor, and author
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Herman Aguinis is an American researcher, business professor, and author. He is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C., where he served as chair of the Department of Management and director of the Master of Human Resources Management Program.[1] He has been ranked among the world's top 100 most influential economics and business researchers in the world every year since 2018.[2][3][4][5] He served as president of the Academy of Management (AOM),[6] and has been inducted into The PhD Project Hall of Fame.[7] Prior to moving to Washington D.C. in 2016, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the founding director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Herman Aguinis was born in Rio Cuarto, Cordoba (Argentina).[8] He is the son of the Argentine author Marcos Aguinis and University of Buenos Aires School of Law professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis (deceased).[9] He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires[10] before receiving a Bachelor and master's degree in psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. He spent part of his high school years in New York City. Still, following his schooling in Argentina, he moved to the United States to study Industrial and Organizational Psychology, earning a Master's and then a PhD degree from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1993.
Career
Aguinis' research, teaching, and consulting are about acquiring and deploying talent in organizations and organizational research methods (i.e., behavioral science and data science). He has written extensively on the topics of star performance, corporate social responsibility & business sustainability, domestic and international workforce diversity, leadership, staffing, training and development, performance management, and innovative methodological approaches for developing and testing theories. His research has been featured by the media worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal [11] and Forbes,[12] and in U.S. Supreme Court cases.[13] He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods (2005–2007) and has served or serves on the editorial board of 26 journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Forbes and in U.S. Supreme Court cases.[13] He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods (2005–2007) and has served or serves on the editorial board of 26 journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies.[14]
Aguinis has delivered about 300 keynote addresses and presentations at professional conferences,[15] delivered about 150 invited presentations in all seven continents except for Antarctica,[16] and raised about $5MM for his research and teaching endeavors from private foundations and federal sources (e.g., National Science Foundation).[17]
Impact, awards and honors
Aguinis' research has placed him as one of the world's most influential and prolific contemporary management professors.[18][19][20][21][22][3][4]
Academy of Management Career Award for Service Contributions, demonstrating lifetime excellence in helping to build institutions through creative or unusually effective service.[24]
Losey Award by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation for lifetime achievement in human resource research[25]
Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division Career Award for Societal Impact, recognizing lifetime contributions to scholarship addressing timely and important societal challenges in the business, economic, societal, or environmental spheres that have the potential to change the world[26]
Academy of Management Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions[27]
Academy of Management Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions[28]
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Scientific Contributions Award for lifetime contributions[29]
Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee Scholar Practice Impact Award recognizing an outstanding scholar who has affected policy-making and managerial and organizational practices[30]
IACMR-Responsible Research in Management Award recognizing excellent scholarship that focuses on important issues for business and society using sound research methods with credible results[31]
Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award[32]
Academy of Management Research Methods Division Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award
Nine best article of the year awards from the journals Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior (twice), Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning and Education,Organizational Research Methods, Business Horizons, and Management Research.[33][34]
Selected publications
Herman Aguinis has published about 225 journal articles [35] and 13 books.[36] His "Performance Management for Dummies" book has been recognized as one of “The 15 Best HR Books of All Time” [37]
Books
Aguinis, H. 2025. Research methodology: Best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. ISBN978-1071871942, 9781071871928.
Cascio, W.F., & Aguinis, H. 2025. Applied psychology in talent management (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. ISBN9781071912058, 9781071912089.
Aguinis, H. 2019. Performance management for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN978-1119557654.
Aguinis, H. 2023. Performance management (5th ed.). Chicago, IL: Chicago Business Press. ISBN978-1-948426-48-0.
Aguinis, H. 2004. Regression analysis for categorical moderators. New York, NY: Guilford. ISBN1572309695.
Baruch, Y., Konrad, A.M., Aguinis, H., & Starbuck, W.H. (Eds.). 2008. Opening the black box of editorship. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. ISBN0230013600.
Aguinis, H. (Ed.). 2004. Test-score banding in human resource selection: Legal, technical, and societal issues. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN1567205208.
Aguinis, Herman; Ramani, Ravi S.; Alabduljader, Nawaf (January 2018). "What You See Is What You Get? Enhancing Methodological Transparency in Management Research". Academy of Management Annals. 12 (1): 83–110. doi:10.5465/annals.2016.0011.
Aguinis, Herman; O'Boyle, Ernest (June 2014). "Star Performers in Twenty-First Century Organizations". Personnel Psychology. 67 (2): 313–350. doi:10.1111/peps.12054.
Aguinis, Herman; Joo, Harry; Gottfredson, Ryan K. (November 2011). "Why we hate performance management—And why we should love it". Business Horizons. 54 (6): 503–507. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2011.06.001.
↑ Podsakoff, Philip M.; MacKenzie, Scott B.; Podsakoff, Nathan P.; Bachrach, Daniel G. (30 January 2008). "Scholarly Influence in the Field of Management: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Determinants of University and Author Impact in the Management Literature in the Past Quarter Century". Journal of Management. 34 (4): 641–720. doi:10.1177/0149206308319533. S2CID143858009.
↑ Aguinis, Herman; Suárez-González, Isabel; Lannelongue, Gustavo; Joo, Harry (May 2012). "Scholarly Impact Revisited". Academy of Management Perspectives. 26 (2): 105–132. doi:10.5465/amp.2011.0088.
↑ Aguinis, Herman; Ramani, Ravi S.; Campbell, P. Knight; Bernal-Turnes, Paloma; Drewry, Josiah M.; Edgerton, Brett T. (30 October 2017). "Most Frequently Cited Sources, Articles, and Authors in Industrial-Organizational Psychology Textbooks: Implications for the Science–Practice Divide, Scholarly Impact, and the Future of the Field". Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 10 (4): 507–557. doi:10.1017/iop.2017.69. S2CID148860324.
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