Charles (Charlie) Trevor

Charlie O. Trevor is a professor and the Pyle Bascom Professor in Business Leadership in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the Wisconsin School of Business. He currently serves as Department Chair.

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

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

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 negotiations, employee compensation, research methods, and HR systems.

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

Selected Published Journal Articles

• Nyberg, A. & Pieper, J. & Trevor, C. (2016). Pay-For-Performance’s Effect on Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological and Economic Principles toward a Contingency Perspective. Journal of Management (42), 1753-1783.
• Nyberg, A. & Pieper/Fitzke, J. & Trevor, C. (2016). Pay-For-Performance’s Effect on Future Employee Performance: Integrating Psychological and Economic Principles toward a Contingency Perspective. Journal of Management (42), 1753-1783.
• Davis, P. & Trevor, C. & Feng, J. (2015). Creating a more quit-friendly national workforce? Individual layoff history and voluntary turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology (100), 1434-1455.
• 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. doi: 10.5465/amj.2006.0127.
• Hausknecht, J. & Trevor, C. (2011). Collective turnover at the group, unit, and organizational levels: Evidence, issues, and implications. Journal of Management (37), 352-388. doi: 10.1177/0149206310383910.
• 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. doi: 10.5465/AMR.2008.33665124.
• 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. doi: 10.5465/AMJ.2008.31767250.
• 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. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2003.tb00248.x.

Presentations

Academy of Management ( 2010 ) Employee Performance as a Function of an Integrative Pay-for-Performance Framework

Undergraduate Courses

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 1), Fall 2011.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 2), Fall 2011.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 30), Fall 2011.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 001), Fall 2012.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 002), Fall 2012.

Negotiations (MHR 628 Section 030), Fall 2012.

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

Compensation: Theory & Adm (MHR 610 Section 1), Spring 2009.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MNG 610), Fall 2001.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MHR 610), Fall 2002.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MNG 610), Spring 2002.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MHR 610), Fall 2003.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MNG 610), Spring 2001.

Compensation: Theory and Administration (MHR 610), Fall 2005.

Compensation: Theory & Adm (MHR 610 Section 1), Spring 2010.

Employee Compensation (MHR 610 Section 1), Fall 2007.

Seminar:Human Resources Issues (MHR 471 Section 1), Spring 2009.

Seminar: Human Resources Issues (MHR 471), Fall 2002.

Seminar: Human Resources Issues (MHR 471), Spring 2004.

Seminar: Human Resources Issues (MHR 471), Spring 2005.

Seminar: Human Resources Issues (MHR 471), Fall 2005.

Seminar:Human Resources Issues (MHR 471 Section 1), Spring 2008.

Graduate Courses

Rsch Meth-Management I (MHR 835 Section 1), Fall 2008.

Research Methods in Management I (MHR 835), Fall 2005.

Rsch Meth-Management I (MHR 835 Section 1), Fall 2009.

Rsch Meth-Management I (MHR 835 Section 1), Fall 2010.

Research Methods (MHR 835 Section 1), Fall 2007.

Learning/Teaching Oriented Publications

Gerhart, B. & Trevor, C. (2008). Merit Pay. Performance Management Systems: A Global Perspective