Jean Phillips

Jean Phillips is a professor in the Human Resource Management department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational behavior and human resource management. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses covering organizational behavior, strategic human resource management, staffing, and teams and leadership. Dr. Phillips has taught at the undergraduate, master, doctorate and executive...See more

Jean Phillips is a professor in the Human Resource Management department in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in organizational behavior and human resource management. She has taught classroom and hybrid classroom/online courses covering organizational behavior, strategic human resource management, staffing, and teams and leadership. Dr. Phillips has taught at the undergraduate, master, doctorate and executive levels both in the U.S. and in Singapore. Dr. Phillips 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. Her research interests focus on recruitment and staffing, leadership and team effectiveness, and issues related to learning organizations. 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. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and the Journal of Business and Psychology. She is also 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, evaluating recruiting source effectiveness, coaching on enhancing leadership performance and work team effectiveness, and the development and evaluation of employee survey programs. See less