Assistant​/Associate Professor; Human Resources​/Organizational Behavior), Department of Manage

Overview

Assistant / Associate Professor (Human Resources/Organizational Behavior), Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Fall 2026

Location:

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Open Date:
Jun 13, 2025

Description:

Position announcement and description for multiple tenure-track faculty positions in Human Resources/Organizational Behavior at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. The effective date of employment is August 1, 2026, or when filled. Compensation will be competitive.

The Haslam College of Business is well-funded with a current endowment of $260 million. It is AACSB accredited, with over 200 full-time faculty serving over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Classes are taught in the James

A. Haslam II Building. The college is growing, and a new 240,000 square foot College of Business building will open in 2027.

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship offers two undergraduate degrees (Management and Human Resource Management), a master’s degree in management and human resources, two university minors (Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship), and the Ph.D. in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Organizations. Tenured or tenure-track departmental faculty include Bryan Bergman, Melissa Cardon, Russell Crook (Department Head), David Gras, Joseph Harrison, Christina Hymer, Tom Lumpkin (visiting), Alex Miller, Tim Munyon, Tim Pollock, Codou Samba, Anne Smith, Ruixiang Song, Sherry Thatcher, and Dave Williams.

The faculty have published in top journals such as AMJ, AMR, ASQ, JAP, JBV, JIBS, JOM, Org Science, PPsych, and SMJ.

The Knoxville Area Knoxville is located in east Tennessee, with a metro area of more than 900,000. It offers a mild climate, a walkable downtown, varied nightlife, active neighborhoods, and diverse shopping and dining. It has been named a top place to live by USA Today and CNN Travel. It is within easy driving distance of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, with access to major cities by car and direct flights from the Knoxville airport to more than 30 destinations.

Required: Candidates must hold a Ph.D. from an accredited institution and demonstrate evidence of quality scholarship and teaching effectiveness in Human Resources/Organizational Behavior or a related discipline. The Ph.D. must be earned by August 1, 2026.

Candidates for Assistant Professor should show promise in developing a program in disciplinary research and scholarship that is gaining external recognition.

Candidates for Associate Professor should be targeting leading journals, producing scholarly output enhancing their professional reputations, and being widely recognized contributors to their disciplines.

Preferred: Our preferred candidates will possess:

• An ongoing program of research in premier refereed journals.
• A desire to work with doctoral students.
• The ability to overlap with and extend our faculty’s research interests.
• An identifiable methodological skillset.
• A record of demonstrated teaching success at an accredited institution.
• For those applying at the associate level: the ability and desire to teach and/or develop programming in our graduate and executive education (GEE) programs, such as the Masters of Science in Management and Human Resources, MBA, Executive MBA (Healthcare or Strategic Leadership), Physicians Executive MBA, or Aerospace and Defense MBA.
• For those applying at the assistant level: if the future (post-tenure) opportunity to teach and/or develop programming in GEE programs such as those listed above appeals to you, please include relevant background in your application materials.

Organizational Behavior Position:
Engage in human resources and/or organization behavior research that results in premier publications. Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in human resources and/or organizational behavior. Participate in professional and university service activities commensurate with faculty rank.

Application Procedure

Candidates applying by August 1, 2025 will receive a complete review of their…