Selected winner of the USA’s Society for HRM Michael R. Losey Award in 2016: Presented to “icons in the HR research field” to honour their “…lifetime achievement in human resource research” and to recognise an individual for significant past and on-going empirical research contributions that have impacted the HR management field and its application to practice through a broad, deep and significant track record of contributing to the HR discipline through research and interactions with the practitioner community.