Joseph J. Martocchio is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Master's degree and PhD in human resource management from Michigan State University 's School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Professor Martocchio's research and teaching interests include employee compensation, employee benefits, and the influence of generational diversity on preferences for employee benefits. He has researched extensively, placing him in the top 5 percent of the most productive researchers published in premier applied psychology journals for the 1990s, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Martocchio is a fellow of SIOP and the American Psychological Association and a fellow of the Employee Benefits Research Institute. He is the co-editor of the annual research series Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (Emerald Insight Publishing). Martocchio is the author of a textbook titled Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach (Pearson Education).
