Michael A. Campion


Michael A. Campion is the Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Management at Purdue University. Previous industrial experience includes 4 years each at IBM and Weyerhaeuser Company. He has a MS and PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has over 140 articles in scientific and professional journals, and has given over 260 presentations at professional meetings, on such topics as employment testing, interviewing, job analysis, work design, teams, turnover, promotion, motivation and machine learning. He is among the 10 most published authors in top journals in his field for the last three decades, and he is the 2nd most cited author in textbooks out of 9,000 authors in both Human Resource Management and Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and he has about 8,000 Web of Science and 24,000 Google Scholar citations. He is past editor of Personnel Psychology and past president of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, both of which are roles that only 1% of I/O Psychologists have the opportunity to perform. He was promoted to the Herman C. Krannert Chaired Professorship in 2009 and to Distinguished Professor in 2020 for contributions and productivity in scientific research. He is also the 2010 winner of the Scientific Contribution Award given by SIOP, which is the lifetime scientific contribution award and most prestigious award given by SIOP. He manages a small consulting firm that has conducted nearly 1300 projects for over 170 private and public sector organizations during the past 30 years on nearly all human resources topics.