Philip Michael Podsakoff (born 1948) is an American management professor, researcher, author, and consultant who held the John F. Mee Chair of Management at Indiana University. Currently, he is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Chair in Business at the University of Florida.
Biography
Podsakoff was born in Fresno, California, earned a BA and MBA from California State University Fresno, and a DBA from Indiana University in 1980. His dissertation thesis was titled "Performance models, microeconomics and schedule responding in humans." Upon graduation from the doctoral program, he joined the management faculty of the Ohio State University for two years (1980–1982), and then returned to Indiana University as an assistant professor in the Management department, where he spent most of his career (1982–2013). He became an Emeritus professor at Indiana University in 2013, and joined the faculty of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Podsakoff has also consulted with several domestic and international companies, including Ashland Chemical Co., Dow Chemical, Duke Realty, Eli Lilly and Company, General Electric, Kimball International, Harrah's Entertainment, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Prudential Insurance Company of America, State Farm Insurance Company, and Texas Gas Company. Philip is married to Vernie (Vera, nee Kochergin) Podsakoff; they have one child, Nathan Podsakoff, who is a professor in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
Selected publications
Books
Simpson, Douglas B, & Philip M. Podsakoff. Workshop Management: A Behavioral and Systems Approach. Springfield, Ill: Thomas, 1975. Scott, W E, and Philip M. Podsakoff. Behavioral Principles in the Practice of Management. New York: Wiley, 1985. Organ, Dennis W, Philip M. Podsakoff, & Scott B. MacKenzie. Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Its Nature, Antecedents, and Consequences. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2006. . According to WorldCat, this book is held in 408 libraries around the world. Podsakoff, P.M., MacKenzie, S.B., & Podsakoff, N.P. (Eds.). (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.