Mark A. Huselid

Mark A. Huselid (born 1961) is a university professor, workforce management specialist, book author, and business consultant. He is the Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.^[1] He has authored research papers and books regarded as seminal to establishing a strategic link between human resource management and business performance.^[2][3][4]

Education

Huselid graduated with a B.A. in psychology from California State University, Fresno.^[5] He also received an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology, and MBA, both from the University of Kansas,^[5] and a PhD in organization and human resources from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993.^[6]

Career

Huselid was a Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Strategy in the School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) at Rutgers University, where he worked from 1992 to 2014.^[7] In 2014 he was further named a Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, and the Director of its Center for Workforce Analytics.^[8] He was Editor of Human Resource Management, the journal of the Society for Human Resource Management from 2000 to 2004.^[9][10]

He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, NAHR (2016),^[9] a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2017), and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2017).^[11]

He has been a frequent speaker to professional and academic audiences worldwide.^{[12][13][14][15][16]}

His research program focuses on balanced measurement systems for business success. They reflect the contribution of the workforce to the business's^[17] success.

Research

Huselid's research papers have been cited over 40,000 times according to Google Scholar.^[2] He has authored some of the most frequently cited articles in the history of Academy of Management Journal.^[18] According to reviewers, Huselid's academic writings played a pioneering role in validating a link between HRM practices and business productivity,^[3] particularly in the US.^[19]

Most cited papers

• Huselid, Mark A. "The impact of human resource management practices on turnover, productivity, and corporate financial performance". The Academy of Management Journal. 38 (3): 635–672. Cited 13987 times.^[2]
• Delaney, John T.; Huselid, Mark A. (August 1996). "The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Perceptions of Organizational Performance". Academy of Management Journal. 39 (4): 949–969. doi:10.5465/256718. ISSN 0001-4273. Cited 4954 times.^[2]
• Huselid, Mark A.; Jackson, Susan E.; Schuler, Randall S. (February 1997). "Technical and Strategic Human Resources Management Effectiveness as Determinants of Firm Performance". Academy of Management Journal. 40 (1): 171–188. doi:10.5465/257025. ISSN 0001-4273. Cited 3140 times.^[2]
• Becker, Brian E.; Huselid, Mark A. (December 2006). "Strategic Human Resources Management: Where Do We Go From Here?". Journal of Management. 32 (6): 898–925. doi:10.1177/0149206306293668. ISSN 0149-2063. S2CID 13040957. Cited 2155 times.^[2]

Books

• Becker, Brian E; Huselid, Mark A; Ulrich, David (2001). The HR scorecard: linking people, strategy, and performance. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 978-1-57851-136-5. OCLC 248548335.. ^[20]
• Huselid, Mark A; Becker, Brian E; Beatty, Richard W (2015). The Workforce Scorecard Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 978-1-63369-059-2. OCLC 1016145506.
• Becker, Brian E; Beatty, Richard W; Huselid, Mark A (2009). The differentiated workforce: transforming talent into strategic impact. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 978-1-4221-0446-0. OCLC 473657314. ^[21][22]

The publication of a new book by Huselid, Disrupting Workforce Competition: Executing Strategy through Workforce Analytics, has been announced.^[8]

Awards

• Academy of Management Journal's Best Paper Award (1995).^[23]
• Academy of Management's Scholarly Achievement Award in Human Resource Management (1996).^[24]
• Journal of Management's Best Paper Award (2011)^[25]
• State University of New York at Buffalo School of Management Distinguished Alumnus Award (2012).^[9]
• Academy of Management's Best Paper award in human resource management (2017).^[26]