Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics provides a current, succinct, and interesting introduction to the world of HRM with a special emphasis on how data can help managers make better decisions about the people in their organizations. Authors Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin, and Donald Truxillo use cutting-edge case studies and contemporary examples to illustrate key concepts and trends. A variety of exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice their problem-solving, ethical decision-making, and data literacy skills. Non-HR majors and HR majors alike will learn best practices for managing talent in today’s ever-evolving workplace.

Talya Bauer, PhD

Gerry & Marilyn Cameron Endowed Professor of Management

Talya Bauer earned her PhD in business with an emphasis in organizational behavior and human resources from Purdue University. She is an award-winning teacher including being awarded the Innovation in Teaching Award from the HR Division of the Academy of Management. She teaches HR analytics, introduction to HRM, training and development, organizational behavior, and negotiations courses and has also been recognized by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) with the Distinguished Teaching Award. She conducts research about HR and relationships at work. More specifically, she works in research areas across the employee life cycle including recruitment and selection, new employee onboarding, and coworker and leader relationships. This work has resulted in dozens of journal publications, book chapters, and research grants including from NSF and NIH. She has acted as a consultant for government, Fortune 1,000, and start-up organizations. She has been quoted and her work covered in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Washington Post, Business Week, Talent Management, USA Today, as well as appearing on NPR's All Things Considered. Previously, she worked as a computer consultant and as a trainer in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Hong Kong. She has been a visiting professor in France, Italy, Spain, and at Google, Inc. Talya is involved in professional organizations and conferences at the national level such as serving on the Human Resource Management Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and as SIOP president. She has received several Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) research grants and authored SHRM's "Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success" and coauthored SHRM's "Applicant Reactions to Selection: HR's Best Practices" white papers. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, the former editor of Journal of Management, and on the editorial boards for Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practices. She has coauthored multiple textbooks including Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Psychology and Work: Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is a fellow of SIOP, APA, APS, and IAAP.

Berrin Erdogan, PhD

Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management

Berrin Erdogan completed her PhD in human resource management at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her B.S. degree in business administration at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a corporate trainer at a private bank. She teaches human resource management, performance management and compensation, and global human resource management at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on the flow of people into and out of organizations, with a focus on applicant reactions to employee selection systems, newcomer onboarding, manager-employee relationships and skill utilization, and employee retention. Her studies have been conducted in a variety of industries including manufacturing, clothing and food retail, banking, health care, education, and information technology in the United States, UK, Turkey, Spain, India, China, France, Germany, and Vietnam. She authored over 70 articles and book chapters that appeared in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Human Resource Management, and have been discussed in media outlets including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, BBC Capital, and The Oregonian. In addition, she coauthored the textbooks Organizational Behavior, Psychology and Work: Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Principles of Management. Berrin served as an associate editor for Personnel Psychology and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and is a former Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. She is a fellow of SIOP and APS. She was a visiting scholar and gave invited talks at universities in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

David Caughlin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

David Caughlin earned his master's in industrial and organizational psychology from Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis and his PhD in industrial/organizational psychology with concentrations in quantitative methodology and occupational health psychology from Portland State University. He is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses related to human resource management (HRM) and data analytics, such as introduction to HRM, reward systems and performance management, HR information systems, HR analytics, storytelling with data, organizational behavior, organizational psychology, practical statistical skills in psychology, and research methods in psychology. In his HR analytics courses, David teaches students how to use the programming languages like R to manage, analyze, and visualize HR data to improve high-stakes decision making; in the process, students build their data literacy and develop valuable critical thinking and reasoning skills. While working for the School of Business at Portland State University, David was recognized twice with the Teaching Innovation Award and twice with the "Extra Mile" Teaching Excellence Award. David conducts research on topics related to supervisor support, employee change, and occupational safety and health. He has worked with a variety of organizations in various industries on projects related to employee engagement, job analysis, selection, performance management, compensation, organizational culture, mistreatment prevention, and employee survey development. His research has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Management; Human Resource Management; Journal of Business & Psychology; and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Donald Truxillo, PhD

Professor of Work and Employment Studies

Donald Truxillo earned his PhD from Louisiana State University. He is a professor at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland, and Professor Emeritus at Portland State University. Previously, he worked in the areas of selection, employee development, and promotions in the public sector as an industrial psychologist and as a professor in the industrial/organizational psychology program at Portland State University. He studies the methods employers use to hire workers and the experiences of job applicants during recruitment and hiring. In addition, Donald examines issues related to workplace safety and health as well as age differences at work. He served as associate editor for the Journal of Management and is currently an associate editor at Work, Aging and Retirement. He is a member of nine editorial boards including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Donald is the recipient of SIOP's 2017 Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award and a coauthor of the textbook Psychology and Work: Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. His research has been supported by the SHRM Foundation, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), most recently to study privacy and security issues associated with online hiring. He has taught courses in human resource management, training and development, research methods, and industrial psychology. He has received three Fulbright grants to study abroad and has visited at universities in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, and Germany. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Doctoral Training Committee, Department of Psychological Science and Education, University of Trento, Italy. He is a fellow of SIOP, APA, APS, and IAAP.