Wayne F. Cascio is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Business School of the University of Colorado Denver, where he served as a member of the management faculty from 1981 to 2020. A former area and consulting editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), he has published more than 200 articles and book chapters, and 33 books, including Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits (12th ed., 2022), Investing in People (3rd ed., 2019 with J. Boudreau and A. Fink), and Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed., 2019 with H. Aguinis). In 2016, by a vote of 90 countries, he received the George Petitpas [Lifetime Achievement] Award from the World Federation of People Management Associations. In 2020 he received the inaugural Ulrich Impact Award from the HR Division of the Academy of Management for his research that links theory to practical applications, and he was also inducted into the Australian HR Institute’s Hall of Fame. In 2022 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Colorado Board of Regents for his service to the state and to the nation.

Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Fang’s research interests are in the area of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, international HRM, diversity and inclusion management, employment relations, migrant studies, HRM in the healthcare sector, digitalization and implications for employment and HRM; climate change, energy transition and the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals and the role of multinational firms. Fang Lee Cooke’s recent research projects examine some of the tensions, challenges and implications associated with these topics for various key stakeholders such as the state, employers’ associations, trade unions, workers, and labour non-government organizations. Fang is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for PRME Research Excellence (2018) and the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (2011), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia. She was also a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Scheme) Visiting Professor, Georg-August-Universität Goettingen, Germany (2016), and visiting professor at King’s College London (2022).

Jarrod Haar is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Massey University. He has Māori tribal affiliations of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Mahuta. He broadly researches employees and organisations including work-life balance, job burnout, and innovation. He has won industry and best-paper awards and won multiple research grants. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. He has over 400 refereed outputs (including 139 journal articles), given over 80 keynotes/invited presentations. He is a frequent media commentator, with over 230 media presentations, including over 60 TV appearances.