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John Hausknecht

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Professor
Human Resource Studies
Department Chair
Human Resource Studies
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133 Statler Dr
166 Ives Hall Faculty Wing

Ithaca, NY 14853
United States

Overview

John Hausknecht is professor of human resource studies at Cornell University’s ILR School. Professor Hausknecht’s teaching, research, and consulting focuses on HR analytics and staffing-related topics including employee selection and turnover. He has written extensively on the causes and consequences of employee turnover and its implications for organizational performance, often drawing from large-scale, longitudinal field studies conducted with industry partners. His research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal. Professor Hausknecht recently served as the academic director for Cornell’s ILR Executive Education and currently leads the HR analytics working group series for Cornell’s Center for Advanced HR Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University with a major in industrial/organizational psychology and a minor in management.

Areas of Expertise

Absenteeism
Human Resources
Human capital measurement
Human resources management
Motivation
Organizations
Staffing and selection

Other expertise

Employee Retention

Publications

Journal Articles

  • , , & . . Initial and longer-term change in unit-level turnover following leader succession: Contingent effects of outgoing and incoming leader characteristics. Organization Science, 31(2), 458-476. (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1295)
  • . . Collective Turnover. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 527-544. (DOI:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032516-113139)
  • , , , & . . One hundred years of employee turnover theory and research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 120(3), 530-545. (DOI:10.1037/apl0000103)
  • , , & . . Causes and Consequences of Collective Turnover: A Meta-Analytic Review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 412-453. (DOI:10.1037/a0032380)
  • , & . . When Does Employee Turnover Matter? Dynamic Member Configurations, Productive Capacity, and Collective Performance. Organization Science, 24(1), 210-225. (DOI:10.1287/orsc.1110.0720)
  • , , & . . Justice as a dynamic construct: Effects of individual trajectories on distal work outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 872-880. (DOI:10.1037/a0022991)
  • , & . . Collective turnover at the group, unit, and organizational levels: Evidence, issues, and implications. Journal of Management, 37(1), 352-388. (DOI:10.1177/0149206310383910)
  • . . Candidate persistence and personality test practice effects: Implications for staffing system management. Personnel Psychology, 63, 299-324. (DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01171.x)
  • , , & . . Unit-level turnover rates and customer service quality: Implications of group cohesiveness, newcomer concentration, and size. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(4), 1068-1075. (DOI:10.1037/a0015898)
  • , , & . . Targeted employee retention: Performance-based and job-related differences in reported reasons for staying. Human Resource Management, 48(2), 269-288. (DOI:10.1002/hrm.20279)
  • , , & . . Work unit absenteeism: Effects of satisfaction, commitment, labor market conditions, and time. Academy of Management Journal, 51(6), 1223-1245. (DOI:10.5465/amj.2008.35733022)
  • , , , & . . Retesting in selection: A meta-analysis of coaching and practice effects for tests of cognitive ability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(2), 373-385. (DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.92.2.373)
  • , , & . . Applicant reactions to selection procedures: An updated model and meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 57(3), 639-683. (DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2004.00003.x)
  • , , & . . Retaking ability tests in a selection setting: Implications for practice effects, training performance, and turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(2), 243-254. (DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.87.2.243)

Book Chapters

  • . . Keeping strategic human capital resources: Mobility. In Handbook of Research on Strategic Human Capital Resources. (pp. 447-457). Edward Elgar.
  • . . Talent and Turnover. In Oxford Handbook of Talent Management.
  • , & . . Selecting employees for service and sales jobs. In Handbook of Employee Selection. Psychology Press.
  • , & . . Big data applications to employee turnover and retention. In Big Data at Work: The Data Science Revolution and Organizational Psychology. Routledge/Taylor-Francis.
  • , & . . Selecting employees for service and sales jobs. In Handbook of Employee Selection. Psychology Press.

Book Sections

  • . . Withdrawal behaviors: Turnover.