Juan Ignacio Sánchez - Faculty

Dr. Juan Ignacio Sánchez is Professor and Knight-Ridder Byron Harless Eminent Scholar in the Department of Global Leadership and Management (GLaM) at Florida International University. Earlier in his academic career in the same institution, he served as founding Chairperson of the GLaM department and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Human Resource Management, where he designed and launched the master’s program, which is now ranked #2 in HR.com and has over 1,000 alumni including the Chief People Officers of several Fortune 500 corporations.

He has taught topics such as organizational behavior, organizational design, staffing organizations, performance & talent management, HR effectiveness, rewards systems management, advanced personnel selection, applied psychology training, personnel psychology, human resources management, and compensation & benefits.

Dr. Sánchez has held several positions in prestigious professional associations. He was Vice President at Large for the Greater Miami Society for HRM (GMSHRM, now HR Miami); was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; and was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management’s HR Division, to name a few.

He is now serving on his fifth U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel. For the Federal Government of the United States, he was a panelist in the development of a competency model for infant and toddler caretakers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2017). From 2011 to 2013, Dr. Sánchez was a Special Government Employee for the Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP), in the Social Security Administration, GSA 14.

Professor Sánchez is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. He collaborated as Associate Editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (2008 - 2012) and has been a reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, among others.

He has done multiple presentations at important conferences in North America, Europe, South Africa, and South America. He has given professional development workshops on topics such as teaching and talent management in Latin America at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, in Seattle, Washington.

By 2017, Dr. Sánchez was ranked 46 (top .5%) out of more than 8,600 authors cited in Organizational Psychology textbooks. In addition, he has won ‘Best Professor’ in the Master of Science in Human Resource Management over 12 times, being the most recent one in its online version in 2021.

Juan Ignacio Sánchez joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Capital for the Business School and EGADE Business School.

• Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida, USA
• M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida, USA
• Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
   

• Sanchez, J. I., Bonache, J., Paz-Aparicio, C., & Oberty, C. Z. (2022). Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role. Journal of World Business, 101419.

• Sanchez, J. I. (2022). Who Opposes “Oposiciones”? A job-analytic approach to job-related public employee selection. Basque Journal of People and Public Organizations [Pertsonak eta Antolakunde Publikoak Kudeatzeko Euskal Aldizkaria= Revista Vasca de Gestión de Personas y Organizaciones Públicas], 22, 8-21.

• Wated, G., & Sanchez, J.I. (2021). Political Populism-to-Work Spillover in Latin America: Implications for Human Resources Management. In J. Trullen & J. Bonache (Eds.), Talent Management in Latin America. Pressing Issues and Best Practices, pp. 8-28. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 978-0-367-81990-3, ISBN: 978-1-032-04676-1.

• Campion, M.C., Schepker, D.J., Campion, M.A., Sanchez, J.I. (2020). Competency modeling: A theoretical and empirical examination of the strategy dissemination process. Human Resources Management, 59(3), 291-306.

• Spector, P., & Sanchez, J. (2018). Getting the Global Band Together: Best Practices in Organizing and Managing International Research Teams. In K. Shockley, W. Shen, & R. Johnson (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work–Family Interface (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 230-246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108235556.012

• Sanchez, J. I., & Lazrak, Y. (2017). The micro-foundations of global innovation: Disrupting the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces. In S. Kundu, & S. Munjal (Eds.), Human Capital and Innovation: Examining the Role of Globalisation, pp. 73-90. Basignstoke, UK: Palgrave McMillan.

• Paustian-Underdahl, S. C., Fainshmidt, S., Sanchez, J. I., Misati, E., Zhao, Y., & Zhang, H. (2017). The Role of Economic Development and Perceived Growth Opportunities in Employee Reactions to M&As: A Study of the Merger Syndrome Across 29 Countries. Group & Organization Management, 42(2), 163-194.

• Tian, Q., & Sanchez, J. I. (2017). Does paternalistic leadership promote innovative behavior? The interaction between authoritarianism and benevolence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(5), 235-246.

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