Tim Gardner
Associate Professor
Department(s):- Management

Education
PhD, Cornell University
MLHR, The Ohio State University,
BLS, Bowling Green State University
Awards
2025, Graduate Student Mentoring Award, Department of Management, Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
2019, Teacher of the Year, Department of Management, Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
2019, Fantastic Teacher Award, First-Year Cohort of the USU Master of Human Resources Program
2017, Academy of Management, Human Resources Innovative Teaching Award
2015, Graduate Student Mentoring Award, Department of Management, Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
2007, Teacher of the Year, Awarded by the MBA Students of the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
Biography
Professor Gardner is a recognized expert on strategic human resource management, including aligning HR systems with firm strategy, employment branding, unorthodox sourcing and recruiting techniques, and retention. His career includes extensive experience in the human resources field for several U.S.-based companies.
Gardner's research has been cited approximately 7000 times in the journals, newspapers, textbooks, and popular books tracked by Google Scholar. His h-index score (a measure of quantity and quality of academic publications is 22 - placing him among the top-tier of scholars in the field of management.
Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Gardner, T., Romney, A., (2023). Empowering Flight Exercise: Teaching Students the Design, Underlying Processes, and Organizational Outcomes of Empowering Work Systems. Management Teaching Review, 8:1, 22-39.
- Gardner, T., Van Iddekinge, C.H, Hom, P.W, (2018). If you’ve got leavin’ on your mind: The identification and validation of pre-quitting behaviors. Journal of Management, 44:8, 3231-3257.
- Gardner, T., Munyon, T.P, Hom, P.W, Griffeth, R.W, (2018). When Territoriality Meets Agency: An Examination of Employee Guarding as a Territorial Strategy . Journal of Management, 44:7, 2580-2610.
- Gardner, T., Wright, P.M, Moynihan, L.M, (2011). The Impact of Motivation, Empowerment, and Skill Enhancing Practices on Aggregate Voluntary Turnover: The Mediating Effect of Collective Affective Commitment. Personnel Psychology, 62:2, 315-350.
- Gardner, T., Stansbury, J., Hart, D., (2010). The Ethics of Lateral Hiring. Society for Business Ethics, 20:3, 341-369.
- Gardner, T., Wright, P.M, (2009). Implicit Human Resource Management Theory: A Potential Threat to the Internal Validity of Human Resource Practice Measures. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20:1, 57-74.
- Gardner, T., (2005). Human Resource Alliances as a Means of Improving the Recruiting, Management, and Retention of Employees. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16:6, 1057-1074.
- Wright, P.M, Gardner, T., Moynihan, L.M, Allen, M.R, (2005). The Relationship between HR Practices and Firm Performance: Examining Causal Order. Personnel Psychology, 58:2, 409-446.
- Gardner, T., (2005). Interfirm Competition for Human Resources: Evidence from the Software Industry. Academy of Management Journal, 48:2, 237-256.
- Park, H.J, Gardner, T., Wright, P.M, (2004). HR Practices or HR Capabilities: Which Matters? Insights from the Asia-Pacific Region. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 42:3, 260-273.
- Wright, P., Gardner, T., Moynihan, L.M, (2003). The Impact of Human Resource Practices on Business Unit Operating and Financial Performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 13:3, 21-36.
- Gardner, T., (2002). In The Trenches at the Talent Wars: Competitive Interaction for Scarce Human Resources. Human Resource Management, 41:2, 225-237.
- Wright, P.M, Gardner, T., Moynihan, L.M, Park, H.J, B.G, Delery, J.E, (2001). Measurement Error in Research on Human Resources and Firm Performance: Additional Data and Suggestions for Future Research. Personnel Psychology, 54:4, 875-902.
Professional Journal
- Gardner, T., (2025). How Salespeople Game the System. Harvard Business Review (print edition), 103:2, 110-117. *
- Albrecht, C., Gardner, T., Allred, S., Winn, B., Condie, A., (2016). To Sit at the Table, You have to Know the Language: Important Financial Metrics for HR Directors.. Strategic HR Review, 15:3
- Gardner, T., (2016). 13 Signs that Someone is about to Quit, According to Research. Harvard Business Review - Online *
- Gardner, T., (1999). When Pay for Performance Works Too Well: The Negative Impact of Pay Dispersion. Academy of Management Executive, 13:4, 101-103. *
Public or Trade Journal
- Keller, J., Gardner, T., Winn, B., (2022). They’ve Got Leaving on Their Minds: Leading for Keeps Amid the Big Quit. People + Strategy, 45:2, 50-54. *
Book Chapters
- Gardner, T., Erhardt, N.L, Martin-Rios, C., (2011). Rebranding Employment Branding: Establishing a New Research Agenda to Explore the Attributes, Antecedents, and Consequences of Workers’ Employment Brand Knowledge: Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Wright, P.M, Gardner, T., (2003). The Human Resource-Firm Performance Relationship: Methodological and Theoretical Challenges: The New Workplace: People, Technology, and Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. *
Magazine/Trade Publications
- Andors, A., Gardner, T., (2012). The Value of Poaching. HR Magazine *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.