James Breaugh is a emeritus professor of management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He has conducted research on the topics of employee recruitment, work-family conflict, job design, telecommuting, employee selection, statistical control, and voluntary turnover. His articles have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. Professor Breaugh’s research has been cited over 8,700 times according to Google Scholar. His h-index is 33 and his i10-index is 41. Professor Breaugh's research contributions have resulted in his being voted to fellowship status in the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Association for Psychological Science. Professor Breaugh is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and as Chair of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. He was invited by the Society of Human Resource Management to write a monograph on Talent Acquisition. During the course of his career, Professor Breaugh has chaired ten doctoral dissertations, written tenure reviews for 28 faculty candidates from other universities, and provided 10 grant reviews including two for the National Science Foundation.
Professor Breaugh has consulted for such firms as: Express Scripts, Anheuser-Busch, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Monsanto, St. Louis County, the City of Bridgeton, American Airlines, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.