Herman Aguinis

Herman Aguinis (born 1966) is an Argentine‑American management scholar whose work focuses on organizational behavior, human resource management, and research methods. He is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and a professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business.

Early life and education Herman Aguinis was born in Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina. He is the son of the Argentine author Marcos Aguinis and University of Buenos Aires School of Law professor Ana Maria "Marita" Aguinis. He attended high school at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires before receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in psychology from the University of Buenos Aires. He spent part of his high school years in New York City. Following his schooling in Argentina, he moved to the United States to study Industrial and Organizational Psychology, earning a Master's and then a PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1993.

Career Aguinis' academic work focuses on organizational behavior, human resource management, and research methodology. His published research has examined topics including employee performance, corporate social responsibility, workforce diversity, workplace leadership, staffing, training and development, performance management, as well as quantitative and methodological approaches used in organizational research. He served as editor-in-chief of Organizational Research Methods from 2005 to 2007, and has been a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies.

As a scholar, he had been taught in the University Of Albany, University of Buenos Aires, and the National College of Buenos Aires.

Aguinis has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. He has also received career and lifetime contribution awards from the Society for Human Resource Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Academy of Management.

Selected publications Books

Aguinis, H. 2025. Public policy implications of entrepreneurship research. Sage Publications

Aguinis, H. 2025. Research methodology: best practices for rigorous, credible, and impactful research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. . Cascio, W.F., & Aguinis, H. 2025. Applied psychology in talent management (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. . Aguinis, H. 2019. Performance management for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. . Aguinis, H. 2023. Performance management (5th ed.). Chicago, IL: Chicago Business Press. . Aguinis, H. 2004. Regression analysis for categorical moderators. New York, NY: Guilford. . Baruch, Y., Konrad, A.M., Aguinis, H., & Starbuck, W.H. (Eds.). 2008. Opening the black box of editorship. New York, NY: Palgrave-Macmillan. . Aguinis, H. (Ed.). 2004. Test-score banding in human resource selection: Legal, technical, and societal issues. Westport, CT: Praeger. .

Journal articles