John Hausknecht : Biography
John Hausknecht is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Studies at Cornell University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on human resource management, staffing organizations, and strategic HR metrics, and was the 2008 recipient of the ILR School's MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching. He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from Penn State University with a major in industrial/organizational psychology and a minor in management. In 2004, he received the S. Rains Wallace Award for the best dissertation in the field of industrial/organizational psychology.
Professor Hausknecht's research has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, and Personnel Psychology. He primarily studies HR-related topics at two points in the employment relationship, entry and exit. Recent papers have examined applicant persistence in selection settings, reactions to company hiring practices, and predictors and consequences of group-level absenteeism and turnover.
Prior to academia, Professor Hausknecht worked as a consultant to several Fortune 500 firms in the areas of leadership assessment, talent management, and organizational change. He is a member of the Academy of Management (HR, OB, RM divisions), Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and Society for Human Resource Management, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology.