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Berrin Erdogan Portland State University, USA, University of Exeter

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.