About the Authors

Talya Bauer (Ph.D., Purdue University) is the Cameron Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher and recipient of the Academy of Management Human Resource division’s Innovations in Teaching Award as well as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award. She conducts research about relationships at work throughout the employee lifecycle, including leadership, organizational justice, HR analytics, recruitment, applicant and candidate experiences during selection, and new employee onboarding. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and SIOP foundations and has been published in research outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. She has worked with dozens of government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations and has been a Visiting Scholar in France, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and at Google Headquarters, and she has delivered keynote addresses in Australia, France, Greece, Norway, Spain, the UK, and the United States. She has served in elected positions, including the HRM Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and Member-at-Large for SIOP as well as SIOP President. She is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology (and the former Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Management). Her work has been discussed in Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and her work has been referenced 16,000+ times by scholars in their own work.  She is a Fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Association of Applied Psychology.

Berrin Erdogan (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is the Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management and Affiliated Professor of Psychology at Portland State University where she was recognized with the Innovative Teaching Award. Berrin’s research focuses on two themes. First, she examines how leaders lead through the relationships they build with their employees; and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and the consequences of being overqualified. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, health care, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the USA, the UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters. She has also coauthored Essentials of Organizational Behavior and Principles of Management published by FlatWorld, Psychology and Work published by Routledge, and Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics by Sage Press. She co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Leader-Member Exchange, published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been discussed in media outlets, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, BBC Capital, and Wall Street Journal, among others. She was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for unique and unusual contributions to the field of applied psychology. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. Previously, she served as an associate editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology.  Berrin is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has served as a visiting scholar and given invited talks in Australia, Canada, Greece, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US.

We are proud to announce that Organizational Behavior by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan has been awarded the prestigious TAA (Text and Academic Authors Association) Texty Award. This award is given based on four key criteria, including how the book is rated in terms of being interesting and informative, well organized and well prepared, up to date and appealing, and containing teachable material. 

Congratulations on this incredible honor!