Wisconsin School of Business

Charles (Charlie) Trevor

Associate Professor - Management & Human Resources
Keller Fellow

Charlie O. Trevor is an associate professor and the Keller Fellow in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the Wisconsin School of Business.

His research focuses on the determinants and consequences of employee compensation, and employee turnover, particularly of the employees that companies can least afford to lose.

Charlie’s work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, World at Work Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Personnel Psychology and Competitiveness Review.

His research on downsizing and turnover rates at 200 companies was awarded the 2009 Scholarly Achievement Award for the best article of the year from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. In “Keeping Your Headcount When All About You Are Losing Theirs: Downsizing, Voluntary Turnover Rates, and the Moderating Role of HR Practices,” Trevor and his co-author, Anthony Nyberg (Ph.D. ’09), found that downsizing can set off an exodus among retained employees that in some cases is much greater than the reduction achieved through the layoffs.

Charlie teaches courses on employee compensation, research methods, and HR systems.

He received his Ph.D. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.
 

Selected Published Journal Articles

Trevor, C., Reilly, G., & Gerhart, B. (2012). Reconsidering Pay Dispersion’s Effect on the Performance of Interdependent Work: Reconciling Sorting and Pay Inequality. . Academy of Management Journal (55), 585-610.
Hausknecht, J., & Trevor, C. (2011). Collective turnover at the group, unit, and organizational levels: Evidence, issues, and implications. Journal of Management (37), 352-388.
Trevor, C. (2010). What teachers want: Teacher preferences regarding nontraditional pay approaches. Economic Policy Institute
Nyberg, A., & Trevor, C. (2009). After Layoffs, Help Survivors Be More Effective. Harvard Business Review (87), 15.
Lee, T., Gerhart, B., Weller, I., & Trevor, C. (2008). Understanding Voluntary Turnover: Path-Specific Job Satisfaction Effects and the Importance of Unsolicited Job Offers. Academy of Management Journal (51), 651-671.
Trevor, C., & Nyberg, A. (2008). Keeping Your Headcount When All About You are Losing Theirs: Downsizing, Voluntary Turnover Rates, and HR Practices. Academy of Management Journal (51), 259-276.
Sturman, M., Trevor, C., Bourdreau, J., & Gerhart, B. (2003). Is it worth it to win the talent war? Using turnover research to evaluate the utility of performance-based pay. Personnel Psychology (56), 997-1035.

Presentations

Academy of Management
Employee Performance as a Function of an Integrative Pay-for-Performance Framework

Undergraduate Courses

Negotiations (Kohls) (MHR 628), Fall 2012.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 001), Fall 2012.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 002), Fall 2012.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 030), Fall 2012.



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Charles (Charlie) Trevor

 
Associate Professor | Management & Human Resources
Keller Fellow
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