Faculty & Staff

Biography

Dr. Jim Jawahar is Interim Chair of the Department of Management & Quantitative Methods.

Professor Jim Jawahar teaches courses in human resource management and organizational behavior. His research interest areas include performance appraisal, selection, organizational justice, citizenship and counterproductive behaviors, and work-family dynamics. He has published over 34 articles in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Labor Research, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He has presented over 40 papers at National and International Conferences, such as the Academy of Management Conference and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. He has received many Best Paper Awards and Research Awards.

Dr. Jawahar has been recognized with the Dale Yoder and Herb Heneman Research Award (SHRM Research Award) for his research on performance appraisal. At ISU, he has received the College of Business Service Award, College of Business Research Award, and has been recognized twice with the Caterpillar Faculty Scholar Award.

Dr. Jawahar has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management. He is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, and the Journal of Managerial Psychology, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for top-tier journals in the field. Jim is the Faculty Advisor for ISU's Society for Human Resource Management student chapter and has guided the chapter to Superior Merit Award each of the last seven years. In 2003, he served as the President of the Bloomington Normal Human Resource Council and continues to serve the BNHRC as a board member. Jim serves the ISU community through his role as an Executive Board member of the Institutional Review Board.