Human Resources (HR)
The Human Resources Division is the encouragement of professional scholarship in personnel and human resource topics by interested members of the Division and other members of the Academy of Management, dissemination of the results of this scholarship, provision for fellowship among persons with professional interest in human resource topics, and engaging in related professional activities of interest to the membership.
3316 Members
Division
Officers
- Chair Joel Koopman
- Chair-Elect Corine Boon
- Program Chair Helen De Cieri
- PDW Chair Kang Yang Trevor Yu
- Strategic Chair Rebecca Rheinhardt Kehoe
- Past Chair Kaifeng Jiang
Domain Statement
Human Resources is dedicated to understanding, identifying, and improving the effectiveness of HR practices to facilitate organizational competitiveness nationally or internationally, encourage individual growth and development, and enhance individual performance, work-related attitudes, and well-being.
The Division emphasizes the study of human capital and HR management practices at the individual, group, organizational, societal, and cross-cultural levels of analysis and their impact on outcomes critical to the organization, its employees and their representatives, and all its stakeholders (whether future, present, or past).
Major topics include a broad spectrum of issues pertaining to the recruitment, selection, allocation, development, utilization, evaluation, compensation, and retention of people as resources in work organizations and the employment relationship.