Marie Krafft Professor of Management, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Sport Management, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

Gerald R. Ferris (Ph.D.) is the Marie Krafft Professor of Management, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Sport Management at Florida State University. Prior to accepting this chaired position, he held the Robert M. Hearin Chair of Business Administration, and was Professor of Management and Acting Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi from 1999-2000, and before that, he served as Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations, of Business Administration, and of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1989-1999, and as the Director of the Center for Human Resource Management at the University of Illinois from 1991-1996.