Luis R. Gomez-Mejia is a full professor of management in the College of Business at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU, he taught at the University of Colorado and the University of Florida. He has also been on the faculty at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Instituto de Empresas and has offered seminars in both Spanish and English in many countries and universities around the world.

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in industrial relations from the College of Business at the University of Minnesota and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to entering academia, Professor Gomez-Mejia worked in human resources for the City of Minneapolis and Control Data Corporation and served as consultant to numerous organizations.

He has served two terms on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal and is editor and co-founder of two journals: Journal of High Technology Management Research and Management Research. Dr. Gomez-Mejia has published more than 100 articles in the most prestigious management journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Industrial Relations, and Personnel Psychology. He has also written and edited a dozen management books.

Dr. Gomez-Mejia has received numerous awards including “best article” in the Academy of Management Journal and the Outstanding Alumni Award at University of Minnesota. He has been named a Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University every year since 1994, holds the Horace Steel Chair at Arizona State University, is a member of the Academy of Management Journal’s Hall of Fame, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management.

He is also president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management (an affiliate of the Academy of Management), which covers Spain and Portugal, all of Latin America, and Hispanic faculty in U.S. universities.

David B. Balkin is the chair of the Management Division and is a full professor in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado. Previously he was an associate professor at the university. Before joining the University of Colorado in 1988, he taught at Louisiana State University and Northeastern University. He served as a visiting professor for the University of Toulouse in France and the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and has also taught courses in Norway, Spain, Israel, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

He received his Ph.D. in industrial relations from the University of Minnesota Graduate School of Business, where he specialized in human resources management. He earned a master’s degree in industrial relations at the University of Minnesota Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Balkin has been a about the authors management consultant for Control Data Corporation, a personnel analyst for Honeywell Corporation, and a marketing research associate for National Broadcasting Company. He also serves as an expert witness in cases involving pay and employment discrimination.

Professor Balkin has served as associate editor for Human Resource Management Review since 1997 and as a member of the editorial review board for the Journal of High Technology Management Research since 1990. He has also been a member of the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal and serves as a reviewer for several publications. He is widely published in the professional literature, most recently in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business and Psychology, Group and Organization Management, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Compensation and Benefits, Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, and HR Magazine.

He is the author and editor of several books on human resources, the management of innovation, compensation, and other topics. He has received the North American Case Research Association’s Curtis E. Tate Jr. Outstanding Case Writer award, the National Academy of Management’s Best Article of the Year award, and the Western Academy of Management’s Outstanding Paper award.

Robert L. Cardy is chair of the Department of Management at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Before joining UT–San Antonio, he taught at Arizona State University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Virginia Tech. His masters and undergraduate degrees are from Central Michigan University. Dr. Cardy has consulted with a variety of organizations, particularly in the areas of performance appraisal and competency model development and implementation.

Professor Cardy has served multiple terms as a member of the executive committee of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. He has regularly written columns for the HR Division Newsletter on new and innovative issues since 1991. Dr. Cardy was the co-founder and editor of the former Journal of Quality Management. He has been a member of the editorial review boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Organizational Behavior and serves as a reviewer for several publications. He has published articles in a variety of journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Management Communication Quarterly, and HR Magazine.

Dr. Cardy has authored or edited several books on human resource management and performance management. He has twice received a “best paper” award from the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. He has received a “University Mentor Award” for his work with doctoral students at Arizona State University. He is also an honors Fellow of the W. P. Carey School of Business for which he is a faculty mentor to teams of honors students working on community development projects.