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Wayne F. Cascio, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Denver, where he served as a management faculty member from 1981 to 2020. He has served as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (1992-1993), Chair of the SHRM Foundation (2007), the SHRM Certification Commission (2014-2022), the HR Division of the Academy of Management (1984), and as a member of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors (2003-2006).
A former area and consulting editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), he has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, and 33 books, including Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits (12th ed., 2022), Investing in People (3rd ed., 2019 with J. Boudreau and A. Fink), Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed., 2019 with H. Aguinis), and The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management (co-edited with David Collings & Kamel Mellahi, 2017). He is a two-time winner of the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management Executive for his research on downsizing.
In 2010 he received the Michael R. Losey Human Resources Research Award from the Society for Human Resource Management, in 2013 he received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; and in 2016, by a vote of 90 countries, he received the World Federation of People Management Associations’ George Petitpas Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020 he received the inaugural Ulrich Impact Award from the HR Division of the Academy of Management for his research that links theory to practical applications. He was also inducted into the Australian HR Institute’s Hall of Fame. In 2022 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Colorado Board of Regents for his service to the state and to the nation. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the Australian HR Institute.
Education
PhD Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Rochester
MA Experimental Psychology, Emory University
BA Psychology, College of the Holy Cross
Areas of expertise
Human Resource Management
Talent Analytics
Leadership
Downsizing
Awards
Distinguished Service Award, University of Colorado Board of Regents, 2022
Hall of Fame, Australian HR Institute, 2020
Ulrich Impact Award, HR Division, Academy of Management, 2020
World Federation of People Management Associations, George Petitpas [Lifetime Achievement] Award, 2016
Eastern Academy of Management, Distinguished Scholar Award, 2016
Western Academy of Management, JMI Outstanding Scholar Award, 2015
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, 2013
University of Geneva, Switzerland, IOMBA professor of the year, 2014
Life Fellow, Australian Human Resources Institute, 2012
