Herman Aguinis

Herman Aguinis
Born	Herman Aguinis 1966 (age 58–59) Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
Occupation	Researcher Professor Author
Language	English Spanish French
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires University at Albany
Subject	Talent & Performance management Corporate social responsibility Organizational research methods
Notable awards	Losey Award for lifetime contributions by SHRM Foundation Lifetime Scientific Contributions Award by Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Academy of Management
Spouse	Heidi Roth-Aguinis
Children	2
Relatives	Marcos Aguinis
Website
www.hermanaguinis.com

Herman Aguinis (born 1966) is an Argentine-born American management scholar. He is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business. His work focuses on organizational behavior, research methods, and human resource management. ^{[1] [2]}

Early life and education

Herman Aguinis was born in Rio Cuarto, Cordoba (Argentina). ^[3] He is the son of the Argentine author Marcos Aguinis and University of Buenos Aires School of Law professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis (deceased). ^[4] He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires ^[5] 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. 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 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. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Organizational Research Methods (2005–2007) and has served or serves on the editorial board of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies. ^[6]

Aguinis is a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. He has received lifetime and career contribution awards from professional organizations the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Selected publications

Books

• Aguinis, H. 2025. Research methodology: Best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. ISBN   978-1071871942 , 9781071871928.
• Cascio, W.F., & Aguinis, H. 2025. Applied psychology in talent management (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. ISBN   9781071912058 , 9781071912089.
• Aguinis, H. 2019. Performance management for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN   978-1119557654.
• Aguinis, H. 2023. Performance management (5th ed.). Chicago, IL: Chicago Business Press. ISBN   978-1-948426-48-0.
• Aguinis, H. 2004. Regression analysis for categorical moderators. New York, NY: Guilford. ISBN   1572309695.
• Baruch, Y., Konrad, A.M., Aguinis, H., & Starbuck, W.H. (Eds.). 2008. Opening the black box of editorship. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. ISBN   0230013600.
• Aguinis, H. (Ed.). 2004. Test-score banding in human resource selection: Legal, technical, and societal issues. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN   1567205208.

Journal articles

• Bradley, Kyle J.; Aguinis, Herman (2023). "Team Performance: Nature and Antecedents of Non-normal Distributions". Organization Science . 34 (3): 1266–1286. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2022.1619 .
• Aguinis, Herman; Gabriel, Kelly P. (2022). "International Business Studies: Are We Really So Uniquely Complex?". Journal of International Business Studies . 53 (9): 2023–2036. doi: 10.1057/s41267-021-00462-x .
• Aguinis, Herman; Solarino, Angelo (2019). "Transparency and Replicability in Qualitative Research: The Case of Interviews with Elite Informants". Strategic Management Journal . 40 (8): 1291–1315. doi: 10.1002/smj.3015 .
• Aguinis, Herman; Glavas, Ante (March 2019). "On Corporate Social Responsibility, Sensemaking, and the Search for Meaningfulness Through Work". Journal of Management . 45 (3): 1057–1086. doi:10.1177/0149206317691575. S2CID   151866348.
• Aguinis, Herman; Ji, Young Hun; Joo, Harry (December 2018). "Gender productivity gap among star performers in STEM and other scientific fields". Journal of Applied Psychology . 103 (12): 1283–1306. doi: 10.1037/apl0000331 . PMID   30024197.
• 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.

References

1. "Aguinis, Herman | GW School of Business | The George Washington University". GW School of Business. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
2. 2020 Board of Governors Election Results, https://aom.org/about-aom/governance/committees-task-forces/elections Archived 2021-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Frontline IB: Herman Aguinis". Academy of International Business (AIB). 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
4. Books by professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis (deceased), https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Ana+Maria+M.+de+Aguinis&search-alias=books&field-author=Ana+Maria+M.+de+Aguinis&sort=relevancerank
5. Aguinis, H. (2006). From Río Cuarto to Denver. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 43(4), 57-61.
6. Editorships and Editorial Board Memberships, http://www.hermanaguinis.com/sactive.htm#ProfessionReviewer Archived 2018-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
7. Herman Aguinis Named 2017 Losey Research Award Winner, https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/Pages/Herman-Aguinis-Named-2017-Losey-Research-Award-Winner.aspx Archived 2022-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Announcements - Organizational Behavior (OB)". ob.aom.org. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
9. Award Winners, http://rmdiv.org/?page_id=20
10. Ahttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/gwbusiness_aguinis-herman-gw-school-of-business-activity-7211061024727150594-T2TP/

External links

• Herman Aguinis George Washington University page
• Herman Aguinis personal page
• Link for downloadable pdf versions of journal articles authored by Herman Aguinis
• Herman Aguinis Google Scholar profile and publications
• List of books by Herman Aguinis