Dr. John Meyer received his Ph.D. from The University of Western Ontario in 1978. After spending three years at St. Thomas University in Fredericton NB, he returned to Western where he is now a professor and chair of the graduate program in industrial and organizational psychology and director of the Research Unit for Work and Productivity. He is also an adjunct professor in the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University. His research interests include employee commitment, work motivation, leadership, and organizational change. His work has been published in leading journals in the field of I/O psychology (e.g., Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology) and management (e.g., Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management), and has been cited more than 50,000 times according to Google Scholar. He is also co-author of Commitment in the Workplace: Theory, Research and Application (Sage Publications, 1997) and Best Practices: Employee Retention (Carswell, 2000), co-editor of Commitment in Organizations: Accumulated Wisdom and New Directions (Routledge, 2009) and editor of the Handbook of Employee Commitment (Elgar, forthcoming). He has been invited to conduct seminars and workshops in Canada and the US as well as Europe, Asia, and Australia. Dr. Meyer is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the International Association of Applied Psychology, and the Association for Psychological Science. He is a former chair of Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and editor of the OB/HRM section of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. He currently holds the Science seat on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Psychological Association. In 2007 he was recognized by the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for his “distinguished contributions to Industrial-Organizational Psychology in Canada,” and in 2012 was awarded the Helmuth Prize for Achievement in Research by The University of Western Ontario.
