Dr. Jim Jawahar

Professor, Department Chair

Contact Information:

Campus Box 5580
College of Business
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-5580

Phone:

(309) 438-5701

Email:

Office Hours:

Office:

COB 250

Mon:

By Appointment

Tue:

By Appointment

Wed:

By Appointment

Thu:

By Appointment

Fri:

By Appointment

Degree Information:

• Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
• M.S., University of Madras, Honors Post Graduate Diploma, Madras School of Social Work
• M.A. University of Tulsa
• B.S., University of Madras

Profile:

Dr. Jim Jawahar is 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 35 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 Illinois State University, 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 is the Editor of Career Development International, a premier journal in the Careers area of Management. He previously served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Group and Organization Management, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, and Journal of Managerial Psychology. He serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for several top-tier journals in the field. Jim is the Faculty Advisor for Illinois State Uversity's Society for Human Resource Management student chapter and has guided the chapter to Superior Merit Award each of the last eight 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 Illinois State University community through his role as an Executive Board member of the Institutional Review Board.