About

I am a Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College (CUNY), where I teach management and HR courses in the school’s undergraduate, doctoral, executive, and international programs. I am the Academic Director of the Zicklin Executive MBA Program, and, for eight years, directed the SHRM-aligned Executive Master’s Program in Human Resource Management.

My research examines how personality, cognitive ability, and other individual differences shape behavior at work. That ranges from job performance and counterproductive work behaviors to innovation and pro-environmental behavior. I also study how to measure these characteristics well, how to use them fairly in hiring and other personnel decisions, and how data from wearables and sensors can inform people analytics.

I spent my formative years in Germany, England, and France before studying psychology at Freie Universität Berlin. There I took courses in assessment from Hans Westmeyer and in human development from Jacqui Smith, Paul Baltes, and Gerd Gigerenzer. I discovered my passion for human capital research and its real-world applications at the University of Minnesota, where I earned my Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology.

I believe good HR practice needs a solid footing in research, and good research should be accessible to the people who put it into practice. To that end, I frequently consult with multinational companies, government agencies, and NGOs to help them design fair and valid hiring systems and make effective use of assessment, 360-degree feedback, and people analytics.

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