Paula Caligiuri is an American academic, talent management specialist, psychologist, book author, and entrepreneur. As a Distinguished Professor of international business and strategy, she is on the faculty at D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.[1] Her published contributions in the field of international human resource management have won academic distinctions, and been endorsed in scholarly literature and in wider professional circles. Among her books, Get a Life, Not a Job, Managing the Global Workforce,Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals, and Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals, received attention by qualified media.[2][3][4][5] In 2023, she wrote Live for a Living: How to Create your Career Journey to Work Happier, Not Harder with Andrew Palmer (Technologist), which focuses on career development.[6] She is ranked # 392 among the best business and management scientists in the US, 810 worldwide.[7][8]
From 1995 to 2013, Caligiuri was a professor at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.[11] Between 2003 and 2006, Caligiuri was a visiting professor at Bocconi University (Milan). From 2013, she has been a Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business of Northeastern University, Boston, MA. At Northeastern, from 2015 she is also the Director and Founder of the Cultural Agility Leadership Lab.[12]
Among many editorial duties fulfilled, Caligiuri has served as an Editorial Review Board member of Cross Cultural & Strategic Management,[18] an Area Editor the Journal of International Business Studies,[19] a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business,[20] and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management,[21] She has also been an ad hoc reviewer of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment,[22] and a Special Issue Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.[23] She has been a book reviewer within her areas of expertise.[24][25][26] Her editorial on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on HRM research and practice has been thoroughly cited.[27]
She has been a keynote speaker on Cultural agility at many international events,[28][29][30][31][32] and offers LinkedIn Learning online courses on the subject.[33][34][35] In June 2021, she was interviewed by Jill Griffin on Forbes about "the science of working with different cultures".[5] Other written interviews are available online.[36][37]
Caligiuri opines on cultural agility and related matters at various sites.[38][39] She has repeatedly appeared on TV, fulfilling roles as a consulting expert in career development,[40] or as a show host and interviewer.[41] Her podcast interview by Josh Friedman,[42] and her talk at the 20th Human Resource Management Conference (Paris, 2020) are available online.[43]
She is the host of the podcast "International Business Today" [44] As an entrepreneur she founded Skiilify, a public benefit corporation dedicated to helping everyone build their soft skills, including cultural agility.[45]
According to Google scholar,[46] Caligiuri's academic articles have been cited 14,517 times, with an overall h-index of 52 (Oct 16, 2022). Her most cited articles are:
Caligiuri, P. M., Hyland, M., Joshi, A., & Bross, A. (1998). A theoretical framework for examining the relationship between family adjustment and expatriate adjustment to working in the host country. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(4), 598–614.[47] Cited 538 times.[46]
Caligiuri, P. M. (2000). The big five personality characteristics as predictors of expatriate's desire to terminate the assignment and supervisor‐rated performance. Personnel psychology, 53(1), 67–88.[48] Cited 987 times.[46]
Caligiuri, P. M. (2000). Selecting expatriates for personality characteristics: A moderating effect of personality on the relationship between host national contact and cross-cultural adjustment. MIR: Management International Review, 61–80.[49] Cited 763 times.[46]
Caligiuri, P., Phillips, J., Lazarova, M., Tarique, I., & Burgi, P. (2001). The theory of met expectations applied to expatriate adjustment: The role of crosscultural training. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 12(3), 357–372.[50] Cited 507 times.[46]
Recent opinion
Caligiuri, P. (2021), "How organisations can build cultural agility", People Management, May 19, 2021[51]
Caligiuri, P., (2021), "What Happens to Company Culture When Employees Work from Home?", CEOWORLD Magazine, Jun 11, 2021[52]
Caligiuri, P., (2021), "Reclaiming Culture After 'The Great Reset", Chief Executive, June 23, 2021[53]
Caligiuri, P. (2022), "Why cultural agility is the antidote to ineffective EDI programmes, part one" January 20, 2022, HR Magazine[54]
Books
Poelmans, S. & Caligiuri, P. (2008). Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life in Organizations, Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0521858694.[55] Repeatedly cited by peers.[56][57]
Caligiuri, P. (2010). Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. FT Press. ISBN978-0137058495.[58] Named one of the 2010 top 10 career books by Kerry Hannon from Forbes.[59] Favorably reviewed in several sources.[60][61][62][63]
Caligiuri, P., Lepak, D., & Bonache, J. (2010). Global Dimensions of Human Resources Management: Managing the Global Workforce, Wiley Publishing. ISBN978-1405107327.[64] Repeatedly cited in academic literature.[65][66][67][68]
Caligiuri, P. (2012). Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Globally Successful Professionals. Jossey-Bass Publishing. ISBN978-1118275078.[69] Cited in articles and subject reviews.[70][71]
Collings, D., Wood, G., and Caligiuri, P. (eds.) (2015) The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. Routledge. ISBN978-0415636049.[72] Cited by many scholarly articles.[73][74][75][76][77]
Collings, D., Scullion, H., and Caligiuri, P. (eds.) (2019) Global Talent Management. Routledge. ISBN978-1138712454.[78] Cited by many articles and reviews on human resource management.[79][80][81][82][83]
Caligiuri, P. (2021). Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals. Kogan-Page Publishing, ISBN978-1789666618.[84] Listed among the best books by Ceoworld Magazine.[85]
Caligiuri, Paula; Palmer, Andy (October 5, 2023). Live for a Living. Fast Company Press. ISBN978-1-63908-085-4[86] Reviewed in Foreword Reviews.[87] Co-author Andy Palmer is a technologist and entrepreneur based in Massachusetts.
Book chapters
She has written dozens of book chapters, some of which may be reached on ResearchGate.[88]
Distinctions
In 2008, a research article authored jointly by Stahl, Chua, Caligiuri and others[89] was listed 2nd among the best papers in International Human Resource Management by the Academy of Management.[90] In 2012, her article authored jointly with Ibraiz Tarique[91] was given the Best Article Award by the Global Leadership Advancement Center.[92] In 2016 Caligiuri was the recipient of the Applied Science Award 2016, Institute for Cross-Cultural Management (Florida Institute of Technology).[93] In 2017, Caligiuri was named one of the most prolific authors in the field of Expatriate Management.[94] In 2019 she was awarded silver medal for Scholarship by the Journal of International Business Studies.[95] In 2020, she was named Fellow of the Academy of International Business.[96]