Anat Rafaeli
Israeli psychologist
Anat Rafaeli (Hebrew: ענת רפאלי) is an Israeli researcher, scholar of Organisational Behavior, a Professor Emerita at the Technion and the Yigal Alon Chair of Industrial Engineering and Mmanagement. She served as the Deputy Senior Vice President of International Academic Relations of the Technion and was the Executive Director of Technion International . Rafaeli is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a member of the Academy of Management, with extensive experience as an author and a former member of the editorial boards of The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Applied Psycholgy.
Biography
Rafaeli completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology and Mathematics at the University of Haifa in Israel. She completed her graduate (MA and PhD) studies at the Ohio State University in 1985 in Organisational Psychology and post-doctorate research at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at Stanford University in California.
Academic career
Prior to her career at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Rafaeli was a member of the faculty at the school of business administration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Business School of the University of Michigan.
Rafaeli's research spans different aspects of Organisational Behavior and Organizational Theory. Early in her career she conducted and published studies that invalidated the notion of the utility of graphology or handwriting analysis for personnel selection. In a separate line of work she published studies which tested and disproved the economic viability of employment advertising. Her research showed that the use of employment advertising is not economically viable especially in comparison to employee referrals.
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