CONTRIBUTOR:

George Graen

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TITLE:

Professor Emeritus

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INSTITUTION:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BIOGRAPHY:

George Graen, Organizational Psychology Ph.D. University of Minnesota, has more than 50 years of experience in “people operations” globally. He is well known internationally for his work discovering, refining and validating Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory of role making for team performance. Retiring from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, he stepped up his record of ground breaking discoveries of research-based, innovative best HR practices. He also continues to share his research-derived knowledge of people operations with Human Resources, Industrial-Organization Psychology and Academy of Management researchers and practitioners without any fee. In 1976 he was made an American Psychological Association Research Fellow. His preferred slogan reads: “Employees should be valued for their contributions as much as customers for their coin”.