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PATRICK F. MCKAY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Patrick F. McKay, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. Professor McKay received his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in 1999 from the University of Akron. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and the Personnel/Human Resources Research Group (PHRRG). His primary research interests are the interactive effects of race-ethnicity and organizations’ diversity climates on recruitment outcomes, employee job performance, work attitudes, and retention, as well as organizational-level performance. Related interests include racial-ethnic differences in performance on personnel selection devices and the influence of location characteristics on job choice and turnover decisions.  He has published articles in respected publications such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Professor McKay has won several awards for his research work.  Most recently, the Gender and Diversity in Diversity (GDO) division of the Academy of Management selected his Personnel Psychology article (co-authored by Derek R. Avery and Mark A. Morris), Mean racial-ethnic differences in employee sales performance: The moderating role of diversity climate, for the Saroj Parasuraman Award.  The award recognizes the published research article judged to have the highest potential to significantly impact understanding of gender and diversity within organizations.  In addition, Professor McKay and co-authors’ (Derek R. Avery and Mark A. Morris) paper, The interaction of subordinates’ and managers’ diversity climates on store unit sales performance, was recognized as the 2007 Dorothy Harlow Distinguished Paper Award by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) division of the Academy of Management.  He also received two university-level research awards including the 2007 Assurant Health Research Fellowship and 2006 Junior Faculty Scholarly Achievement Award, both from the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Furthermore, Professor McKay won two Gold Star Teaching Awards from the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Management, and as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of respected outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Group & Organization Management, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management Review.

Prior to embarking on an academic career, Professor McKay worked as a human resource consultant in key functions such as test development and validation, test administration, performance appraisal system development, training program implementation, job applicant rating, and litigation support. As a human resource consultant, he developed employment tests for nationally known organizations such as Lucent Technologies, Michelin, Sony Magnetic Products, and General Electric.

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Ph.D.,University of Akron

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Phone: 732-445-5989

pmckay@smlr.rutgers.edu