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Frederick P. Morgeson, Ph.D.

Editor, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and
Organizational Behavior
Eli Broad Professor of Management
Broad College of Business
 Michigan State University
E-mail: fred@morgeson.com

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Frederick P. Morgeson (Ph.D., Purdue University) is the Eli Broad Professor of Management at Michigan State University and current and founding Editor of the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. As an Industrial and Organizational psychologist,  Dr. Morgeson is internationally recognized as one of the most prolific and highly-cited scholars in the world (with over 100 publications and over 44,000 citations). He is creator of Event System Theory and the Work Design Questionnaire, an award-winning educator, a leader in the field (previous Editor of Personnel Psychology, past Chair of the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, and Founding Editor of Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior), and an active organizational consultant (over 130 organizations). He has presented at universities and conferences around the world and has earned many awards for his research, including numerous best paper awards, citations, and nominations, and won the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution from the American Psychological Association. In recognition of this, Dr. Morgeson has been named Fellow of Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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​New and Notable
  • Thankful to have won the 2025 Academy of Management Review Decade Paper Award for our paper, “Event System Theory: An Event-Oriented Approach to the Organizational Sciences” (2015). Many thanks to the diverse range of scholars who have found EST to be useful in their own work.
  • Honored to be recognized for founding and editing the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, which is now the #1 most highly cited journal in the world in our Clarivate/Web of Science and Scopus ranking categories.
  • How do context and personal characteristics affect the outcomes of work work design? Along with colleagues Erich Dierdorff and J. Kemp Ellington, we developed and empirically tested Attribute Relevance Theory (ART) to explicitly investigate just this question in a recent Journal of Applied Psychology article.
  • Return to Office (RTO) requirements are one of the most difficult decisions for organizations and workers. See my conversation on the Broad Matters podcast about the complex implications of RTO in the post-pandemic world.
  • Our Journal of Management special issue on event-oriented research has been published. See our article where we summarize the nine amazing articles in the special issue and discuss the future possibilies of event-oriented research.
  • Volume 12 of the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior is now available! Check out the exceptional reviews from the field's leading scholars.
  • Enjoyed my conversation with Omnia Al Desoukie at The HR Observer about the future of work.
  • Honored to be one of the top .23% most highly cited scholars in the world across 20 scientific disciplines and over 10.2 million scientists according to a 2024 Stanford analysis.