Aguinis was recently appointed by the U.S. Department of State to a five-year term to the Federal Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service. He was elected by his peers as chair of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. He is editor-in-chief for a top scholarly journal, Organizational Research Methods. He has received two significant UCDHSC awards in the past three years-excellence in research and creative activities in 2004 and excellence in service in 2006. And, as faculty advisor, he rejuvenated the downtown Denver campus' Society for Human Resources, now ranked as one of the top-10 most meritorious student chapters in the country.

The impetus for all Aguinis' activities and accolades is simple: his students and the working world in which they live. A faculty member at UCDHSC since 1993, Aguinis has dedicated his career to fairness. His research and publications in human resources offer employers strategies to select employees, nurture diversity and equality and foster a healthy work environment.

"Research is not just something I do; it is who I am, a central part of my identity as a professor," Aguinis says. "Thinking about new ideas and collecting data to test these ideas is a great adrenaline rush—without any doubt one of the best aspects of my job as a professor."

When he's not in the classroom, Aguinis conducts more than 10 parallel research projects on human resources management, organizational behavior and research methods and analysis in management and related fields. His latest book, Performance Management, will be published by Prentice Hall in 2007. Aguinis published Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators (2004), edited Test-Score Banding in Human Resource Selection (2004), and has published more than 50 articles in refereed journals in his time at UCDHSC.

While his research may take years to be published and implemented, Aguinis says the advantage of service is immediacy. "One is typically able to see the result quickly," he says.

Aguinis teaches specialty courses in human resources management and organizational behavior including staffing, training and performance management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has taught and delivered presentations at universities in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, France, Spain, Argentina and Peru.

“Dr. Aguinis is an accomplished faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary dedication to the university, the Business School, his academic discipline and to the profession,” states J.C. Bosch, associate dean of the Business School. “His contributions are remarkable not only by his traditional committee work, but also by his leading and innovative activities that contribute to shaping the quality and future of this institution.”