He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration at Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. His research interests include organizational justice, team effectiveness, and personality influences on task and learning performance. He has published several articles on these and other topics in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His teaching areas include human resource management and organizational behavior at the undergraduate, masters, and executive education levels. He also teaches the Management department's doctoral seminar in research methods and applied statistics.