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John Hausknecht is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Studies in the ILR School at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 2003 with a major in industrial and organizational psychology and a minor in management. His research focuses on issues related to staffing organizations and employee retention, and his work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology.  In 2004, he received the S. Rains Wallace Award for the best dissertation in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

Professor Hausknecht teaches courses on staffing organizations and human resource management. He has also taught courses in leadership, work attitudes, research methods, measurement, and industrial/organizational psychology while on the faculty at DePaul University and as an instructor with Penn State University and Cal State University.

Prior to academia, Professor Hausknecht worked as an external consultant to a variety of Fortune 500 firms in the areas of staffing, talent assessment, and leadership development. Much of this work involved organizations in the retail, hospitality, and public sectors, and he continues to do research with many of these organizations today. Dr. Hausknecht is a member of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Society for Human Resource Management.