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Frederick Morgeson

Frederick Morgeson

Professor of Management

Expert in leadership, recruiting and hiring, job analysis and design, talent management, and organizational psychology

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Area of Expertise

Job Analysis and Design Team Leadership and Performance Recruiting and Hiring Human Resource Management Talent Management Leadership Experiences and Development Organizational Development

Biography

Frederick P. Morgeson is the Eli Broad Professor of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. As an industrial and organizational psychologist (Ph.D., Purdue University), he studies how organizations can optimally identify, select, develop, manage, and retain talent to achieve their strategic goals. With more than two decades of experience, Dr. Morgeson has conducted award-winning research, taught, and consulted across a range of topics in the human resource management ... and talent management domain, including recruiting and hiring; leadership experiences and development; team leadership and performance; organizational development; and job analysis and design. This includes working with numerous public and private-sector organizations across a range of industries, with particular emphasis on high-risk and healthcare industries. Prior to joining Michigan State University, Dr. Morgeson was a faculty member in the Management Department at Texas A&M University and a manager of a recording studio in the Detroit area.

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Education

Purdue University: PhD,

Selected Press

This Company Says Its Software Can Pick Soccer stars

Bloomberg Businessweek | 2017-10-09

BrainsFirst hasn’t submitted its software to the Dutch Association of Psychologists, which audits the quality of tests for students as well as human resources departments and health-care services. Nor has Sligte published any articles about the company’s methods or applied for a patent. “There’s basically no evidence for the claims they’re making,” says Frederick Morgeson, a professor of management at Michigan State University who specializes in organizational psychology. “That’s not to say it’s completely bogus, it’s just to say that we don’t know.”