Paula Caligiuri
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(BA)
Pennsylvania State University (MS, PhD)
academic
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| Alma mater | Canisius College (BA) Pennsylvania State University (MS, PhD) |
| Occupations | Psychologist, academic |
Paula Caligiuri is an American academic, talent management specialist, psychologist, book author, and entrepreneur. As a Distinguished Professor of international business and strategy, she is on the faculty at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.[1] Her published contributions in the field of international human resource management have won academic distinctions, and been endorsed in scholarly literature and in wider professional circles. Among her books, Get a Life, Not a Job, Managing the Global Workforce, Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals, and Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals, received attention by qualified media.[2][3][4][5] In 2023, she wrote Live for a Living: How to Create your Career Journey to Work Happier, Not Harder with Andrew Palmer (Technologist), which focuses on career development.[6] She is ranked # 392 among the best business and management scientists in the US, 810 worldwide.[7][8] Her most recent research expands her coined term cultural agility into the concept of contextual agility,[9] a term also related to soft skills.[10] She also theorized on the need to embrace complexity in order to balance the effects of innovative business disruption.[11]
Caligiuri earned a BA degree in Psychology from Canisius College (Buffalo, NY) in 1989. She attained MS and PhD degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1992 and 1995, respectively.[1][12][13]
Career
From 1995 to 2013, Caligiuri was a professor at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.[14] Between 2003 and 2006, Caligiuri was a visiting professor at Bocconi University (Milan). From 2013, she has been a Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business of Northeastern University, Boston, MA. At Northeastern, from 2015 she is also the Director and Founder of the Cultural Agility Leadership Lab.[15]
Caligiuri is a fellow member of the Academy of International Business,[16] the American Psychological Association,[17] and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,[18] where she is a member of its Visionary Circle.[19] She is also a member of the Academy of Management.[20]
Among many editorial duties fulfilled, Caligiuri has served as an Editorial Review Board member of Cross Cultural & Strategic Management,[21] an Area Editor the Journal of International Business Studies,[22] a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business,[23] and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management,[24] She has also been an ad hoc reviewer of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment,[25] and a Special Issue Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.[26] She has been a book reviewer within her areas of expertise.[27][28][29] Her editorial on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on HRM research and practice has been thoroughly cited.[30]
She has been a keynote speaker on Cultural agility at many international events,[31][32][33][34][35] and offers LinkedIn Learning online courses on the subject.[36][37][38] In June 2021, she was interviewed by Jill Griffin on Forbes about "the science of working with different cultures".[5] Other written interviews are available online.[39][40]
Caligiuri opines on cultural agility and related matters at various sites.[41] She has repeatedly appeared on TV, fulfilling roles as a consulting expert in career development,[42] or as a show host and interviewer.[43] Her podcast interview by Josh Friedman,[44] and her talk at the 20th Human Resource Management Conference (Paris, 2020) are available online.[45]
She is the host of the podcast "International Business Today",[46] where she has hosted dozens of interviews to notable people such as professors Phillip A. Sharp (geneticist), Geoge Yip (economist) , and Michael Posner (lawyer).[46][47] As an entrepreneur she founded Skiilify, a public benefit corporation dedicated to helping everyone build their soft skills, including cultural agility.[48]
In 2026, she was conferred the Outstanding Educator Award by the AOM International Management Division.[49]
Work
Research topics
Research articles where Caligiuri is an author will be found in current entries on cultural agility, cross-cultural competence, ethnocentrism, expatriate, globalization, international assignment, international student, global leadership, talent management, and workforce management.
Papers
According to Google scholar,[50] Caligiuri's academic articles have been cited 14,517 times, with an overall h-index of 52 (Oct 16, 2022). Her most cited articles are:
- Caligiuri, P. M., Hyland, M., Joshi, A., & Bross, A. (1998). A theoretical framework for examining the relationship between family adjustment and expatriate adjustment to working in the host country. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(4), 598–614.[51] Cited 538 times.[50]
- Caligiuri, P. M. (2000). The big five personality characteristics as predictors of expatriate's desire to terminate the assignment and supervisor‐rated performance. Personnel psychology, 53(1), 67–88.[52] Cited 987 times.[50]
- Caligiuri, P. M. (2000). Selecting expatriates for personality characteristics: A moderating effect of personality on the relationship between host national contact and cross-cultural adjustment. MIR: Management International Review, 61–80.[53] Cited 763 times.[50]
- Caligiuri, P., Phillips, J., Lazarova, M., Tarique, I., & Burgi, P. (2001). The theory of met expectations applied to expatriate adjustment: The role of crosscultural training. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 12(3), 357–372.[54] Cited 507 times.[50]
Recent opinion
- Caligiuri, P. (2021), "How organisations can build cultural agility", People Management, May 19, 2021[55]
- Caligiuri, P., (2021), "Reclaiming Culture After 'The Great Reset", Chief Executive, June 23, 2021[56]
- Caligiuri, P. (2022), "Why cultural agility is the antidote to ineffective EDI programmes, part one" January 20, 2022, HR Magazine[57]
Books
- Poelmans, S. & Caligiuri, P. (2008). Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life in Organizations, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521858694.[58] Repeatedly cited by peers.[59][60]
- Caligiuri, P. (2010). Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. FT Press. ISBN 978-0137058495.[61] Named one of the 2010 top 10 career books by Kerry Hannon from Forbes.[62] Favorably reviewed in several sources.[63][64][65][66]
- Caligiuri, P., Lepak, D., & Bonache, J. (2010). Global Dimensions of Human Resources Management: Managing the Global Workforce, Wiley Publishing. ISBN 978-1405107327.[67] Repeatedly cited in academic literature.[68][69][70][71]
- Caligiuri, P. (2012). Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Globally Successful Professionals. Jossey-Bass Publishing. ISBN 978-1118275078.[72] Cited in articles and subject reviews.[73][74]
- Collings, D., Wood, G., and Caligiuri, P. (eds.) (2015) The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415636049.[75] Cited by many scholarly articles.[76][77][78][79][80]
- Collings, D., Scullion, H., and Caligiuri, P. (eds.) (2019) Global Talent Management. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138712454.[81] Cited by many articles and reviews on human resource management.[82][83][84][85][86]
- Caligiuri, P. (2021). Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals. Kogan-Page Publishing, ISBN 978-1789666618.[87]
- Caligiuri, Paula; Palmer, Andy (October 5, 2023). Live for a Living. Fast Company Press. ISBN 978-1-63908-085-4[88] Reviewed in Foreword Reviews.[89] Co-author Andy Palmer is a technologist and entrepreneur based in Massachusetts. The book was favorably reviewed by Sarah Frideswide,[90] and Tal E. Gur.[91]
Book chapters
She has written dozens of book chapters, some of which may be reached on ResearchGate.[92]
