Jean Phillips

Jean Phillips is a professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses in strategic human resource management, organizational behavior, staffing, and teams and leadership in the United States and in Singapore. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration from Michigan State University. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness, and issues related to learning organizations. She has published two textbooks, Managing Now and Strategic Staffing. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Small Group Research, Journal of Business and Psychology, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. Jean was among the top 5% of published authors in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology during the 1990s and received the 2004 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Personnel Psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Her consulting work includes the creation and evaluation of strategic recruitment and staffing programs, coaching on enhancing leadership performance and the effectiveness of work teams, and strategic human resource management.