This award is the premier source of funding for significant past and continuing contributions that impact the human resource management field.

A single annual award of $50,000 from the Michael R. Losey endowed research fund will be made annually to further the field of human resources. Nominations are encouraged for established human resource professionals in the field of HR. Click here to download the flyer and application information!

Deadline for nominations is January 21, 2008.

Past Recipients

2007 - Michael Beer, Ph.D.
Dr. Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at Harvard. Beer received a B.A in Statistics from Queens College, his M.S. in Organizational Psychology and Statistics from North Carolina State University, and his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and Business from Ohio State University. Beer has been a Harvard Business School faculty member for 30 years. Prior to his work at Harvard, he was a senior human resource executive at Corning Inc. (then Corning Glass Works) where he founded the Organizational Research and Development Department and was its director. Beer also served as Research Psychologist (1st Lieut.) in the United States Air Force and worked as Adjunct Lecturer, Business Administration at Michigan State University. Beer is Chairman of TruePoint Partners (formerly the Center for Organizational Fitness), a research based consultancy he co-founded in the mid 1990s. It is Beer's experience as a successful HR practitioner and academic researcher that has enabled him to make distinctive contributions to both theory and practice. Beer has received much recognition for his research, including awards by the Academy of Management, Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and The American Psychological Foundation, among others. He has been elected as a Fellow by several professional organizations including the National Academy of Human Resource Management. Beer continues his research, writing, teaching and speaking.

2006 - Gary P. Latham, Ph.D.
Dr. Latham, Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, has notably influenced four domains in HRM: selection, performance appraisal/management, training, and motivation. He developed the situational interview, the concept of Behavioral Observation scales for evaluating employee performance, pioneered the use of goal setting and social cognitive theory for designing training programs, and has carried out groundbreaking research on goal setting with underprivileged individuals as well as highly educated scientists and engineers. Latham has also been the President of his own HR consulting company, G.P. Latham, Inc., since 1976. Latham received his B.A. in Experimental Psychology from Dalhousie University, his M.S. in Social-Industrial Psychology from Georgia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Akron.

2005 - Professor Frank Schmidt
Dr. Schmidt is the Ralph L. Sheets Professor for the University of Iowa. He is known for his research on the development and application of validity generalization methods to calibrate the predictive validity of employment procedures of all kinds and to demonstrate that these validities generalize across organizations, time periods, and occupations. He is also known for his contribution to the development of meta-analytic methods that have been used in a wide variety of HR research areas. Professor Schmidt has been honored with receipt of the highest research awards bestowed by the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and the HR Division of the Academy of Management. To read more about Frank Schmidt, click here.

2004 - Dr. Lee Dyer
Dr. Dyer, a professor at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is a distinguished figure in the development of strategic HR management and organizational agility. He is widely regarded as one of the "fathers" of strategic human resource management and has been intimately involved in the evolution of HR management.

2003*

2002 - Dr. Edward E. Lawler, III
Dr. Lawler is a Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is also Director of the school's Center for Effective Organizations. He has been honored as a major contributor to theory, research and practice in the fields of human resources management, compensation, organizational development and organizational effectiveness.

* The Michael R. Losey Human Resource Research Award was suspended in 2003. Consequently no winner was chosen.