Dr. Berrin Erdogan teaches courses on organizational behavior, human resources management, rewards systems, and performance management at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on two themes. First, she examines how leaders lead through the relationships they build with their employees, and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and the consequences of being overqualified. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the USA, UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters, in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. She also co-authored 4 textbooks. She has been elected a fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Association for Psychological Science (APS) for her unique and unusual contributions to psychological science. She served as an Associate Editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology, and is a former Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She served as a Fulbright Specialist and visiting scholar, and gave invited talks in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the USA.
Karakitapoglu-Aygün, Z., Erdogan, B., Caughlin, D., & Bauer, T. N. (2024). "Transformational leadership, idiosyncratic deals, and employee outcomes" Personnel Review, 53 (2), 562-579
Jahantab, F., Vidyarthi, P., Anand, S., & Erdogan, B. (2023). "When are the bigger fish in the small pond better citizens? A multi-level examination of relative overqualification and outcomes in workgroups" Group & Organization Management, 48(3), 874-907
Wu, C. H., Weisman, H., Sung, L., Erdogan, B., & Bauer, T. N. (2022). "Perceived overqualification, felt organizational obligation, and extra-role behavior during COVID-19: The moderating role of self-sacrificial leadership" Applied Psychology: An International Review, 71(3), 983-1013
Luksyte, A., Bauer, T. N., Debus, M. E., Erdogan, B., & Wu, C. (2022). "Perceived overqualification and collectivism orientation: Implications for work and non-work outcomes" Journal of Management, 48, 319-349
Bauer, T. N., Erdogan, B., Caughlin, D., Ellis, A., & Kurkoski, J. (2021). "Jumpstarting the socialization experience: The longitudinal role of day 1 newcomer resources on adjustment" Journal of Management, 47(8), 2226-2261