Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management

The PhD Program in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources (OBHR) prepares future scholars to explore and address how individuals, teams, and organizations function and thrive in today’s complex workplaces. The program fosters in-depth research on topics such as leadership, motivation, work-nonwork interface, teams, identity, well-being, individual differences, dark triad of personality, pro-social behaviors, counterproductive work behaviors, organizational citizenship behaviors, job performance, HR analytics, recruitment, selection, performance management, and the evolving nature of work.

From the outset, students are immersed in a collaborative and intellectually stimulating research environment. They benefit from close mentorship by faculty who are actively shaping the frontiers of OBHR research and who either currently hold or have held editorial positions, or serve on the editorial boards at top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Review. Through research seminars, individualized advising, and research apprenticeships, students gain the topical and methodological expertise required for impactful scholarship.

Our OBHR graduates are well-prepared for academic careers and consistently secure tenure-track positions at research universities worldwide.