DeNisi honored with career achievement award

Angelo DeNisi, the Albert Harry Cohen Chair of Business Administration at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for Career Achievement.

Presented annually by AOM’s Human Resources Division, the award honors scholars who have distinguished themselves in the field of human resource management. The recipient is selected on the basis of research excellence, impact on the science, teaching and practice of human resource management, and length of service in the field.

DeNisi will receive the award in August at the Academy of Management’s 2016 meeting in Anaheim, California.

“Angelo’s scholarship has contributed much to our understanding of human resource management,” said Freeman School Dean Ira Solomon. “I can’t think of anyone in the field more deserving of this great honor.”

DeNisi joined the Freeman School in 2005 served as dean from 2005 to 2011. Prior to that, he served as head of the management department at Texas A&M University and held faculty positions at Rutgers University, the University of South Carolina and Kent State University. DeNisi's research interests include performance appraisal, expatriate management and work experiences of persons with disabilities. His research has been supported with grants from the U.S. Army Research Institute, the National Science Foundation and other agencies, and his publications have received more than 11,600 citations according to Google Scholar. DeNisi has received numerous awards for his research, including the SIOP Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2005), the William Owens Award for the Outstanding Publication in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (1998), Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior (1996), Best Paper in Organizational Communications (1992) and Best Paper in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1989).