Degrees Held:

Ph.D., Industrial & Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1984;
M.A., Industrial & Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1981;
B.A., Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1978; 

Biographical Information About Michael M. Harris, Ph.D 

Michael Harris (mharris@umsl.edu), Ph.D., is professor of management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is also a Fellow in the International Business Institute and the Center for International Studies. His area of specialty is human resources. In his practical experience, Michael has served as a trainer, expert witness, and consultant and he has appeared on various television and radio click here to hear a recording programs. In terms of his role as trainer, Michael has trained numerous organizations and employees in the area of interviewing, testing, recruiting, firing, and the laws pertaining to these areas, using a variety of formats, including live training, satellite training, and web-based training. He has also trained in the area of diversity and performance management and has conducted a 2-day "Train the Trainer" program. He is presently engaged in integrating e-learning into traditional classroom training programs.  

As an expert witness, Michael has worked on a number of different lawsuits, including cases pertaining to the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1964 and 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has worked on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. 

Michael has worked as a consultant to various organizations throughout his career, including Anheuser-Busch and Emerson Electric. Most of this work has revolved around selection and hiring practices and compensation systems. Finally, Michael has published extensively in the area of human resource management. His specialty areas include staffing/selection, compensation, and performance management, both in the domestic context and the international context. In addition to numerous articles and two books ("The Employment Interview Handbook" and "Human Resource Management: A Practical Approach"), he has produced book chapters such as "Research in Internet Recruiting and Testing: Current Status and Future Directions" in the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2003; Wiley), "Organizational Integration" in the Handbook of Multisource Feedback (Jossey-Bass), and "Succession Management" in the HR Evaluation Handbook (In Press, Sage Publications). He is currently completing a chapter on alcohol and drug use in the workplace for the SIOP Frontiers Series volume entitled "The Darkside of Organizational Behavior." Past research projects have examined selecting European managers for cross-cultural training, gender differences in pay and salary raises, and Internet recruitment. His current research projects include an analysis of pay satisfaction among Korean workers, a cross-cultural study of comparisons people use in determining pay satisfaction and a two-part study of job candidates who apply over the Internet. He is currently completing a book entitled "Employee Staffing and Selection: A Contemporary Approach" (Prentice-Hall) and is under contract to edit a book entitled "Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management" (Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates)   

Michael has made numerous presentations at academic and practitioner conferences, including a SIOP pre-conference workshop in 2001 on Internet recruitment, and a BrassRing-sponsored webinar entitled "Best Practice Diversity Hiring When Using the Internet" in February, 2004. He served as a keynote speaker at the International Test Commission's conference in England, June, 2002, where he made a presentation entitled: "Patrolling the Information Highway: Creating and Maintaining a Safe, Legal, and Fair Environment for Test-takers." He recently presented a keynote address at the British Psychological Society's Test Users Conference in June of 2003 on Internet testing, and served as a panelist for a presentation entitled "Employment Law: The Next Generation" at the SIOP conferences in April, 2003. In February, 2004, he made a presentation entitled:"Recruitment Sources in the 21st Century: An Empirical Investigation of Internet Applicants" at the University of Amsterdam. Upcoming presentations include "Thriving in the Global Environment: Is Your Workforce Ready?" to be delivered at the Arizona SHRM conference in September, 2004.  

Michael and his wife have five children, one grandchild, and two pets. He is active in communal affairs and has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations. 

Michael M. Harris, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
College of Business Administration--487 SSB 
8001 Natural Bridge Road
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. Louis, MO (USA) 63121
phone (314) 516-6280
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email: mharris@umsl.edu