Robert ployhart

Biography

Robert E. Ployhart is the Bank of America Professor of Business Administration and department chair of the Department of Management at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and M.A. from Bowling Green State University, both in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and his B.S. from North Dakota State University in psychology. His research focuses on human capital resources, staffing, personnel selection, recruitment, staffing-related legal issues and applied statistical models such as structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling (HLM/RCM), and longitudinal modeling. Ployhart has published numerous articles in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and International Journal of Selection and Assessment. He has also co-authored multiple books. Ployhart has served as associate editor for the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and as a guest editor for Organizational Research Methods. He has received many scholarly, practitioner and teaching awards. Ployhart is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. His research has been funded by a wide variety of private and public organizations.

Research Interest

His research focuses on human capital resources, staffing, personnel selection, recruitment, staffing-related legal issues and applied statistical models such as structural equation modeling, multilevel modeling (HLM/RCM), and longitudinal modeling. Ployhart has published numerous articles in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and International Journal of Selection and Assessment. He has also co-authored multiple books.