Talya Bauer

Talya Bauer (PhD, Purdue University) works at the School of Business at Portland State University and serves as the area director for the Human Resource anagement program. She is an award-winning teacher and was 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, and negotiations courses and was recognized by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) with the Distinguished Teacher Award. She conducts research about 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 which have resulted in dozens of research grants, journal publications, and book chapters. She has acted as a consultant for dozens of government, Fortune 1,000, and start-up organizations. She has been quoted and her work has been 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. She has been a Visiting Professor in France, 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 SHRM research grants and wrote a SHRM Professional Practices “Onboarding” paper. She is the former Editor of Journal of Management and is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practices. She has co-authored 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, IAAP, and APS.