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Jackie Jacobs

Jackie Jacobs

Teaching Professor

Location Room - 419, Stokely Management Center , United States

Department:

Management & Entrepreneurship

Program:

Full-Time MBA, Management and Human Resource Management Programs, MSMHR

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Biography

Jackie Jacobs is a teaching professor and OB course coordinator in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business; she has served the university and college in a variety of roles. Jacobs has been recognized for excellence in the classroom with several awards from both the college and university.

Jacobs’ primary areas of research and applied focus on work teams, compensation, leadership, performance appraisal and training. Her work has been published in several journals, including Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Training Research Journal, Journal of Quality Management and the American Compensation Journal. She has co-authored four book chapters and has presented over 19 papers at professional conferences, such as the Academy of Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Southern Management Association and the American Psychological Association, and her work was selected for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings twice.

Education:

1997 University of Tennessee, Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology

1992 American University, Master's, Psychology

1989 Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor's, Psychology

Awards/Honors
  • David Schumann Outstanding Faculty Service Award, 2026
  • Best in Track award (paper), Southern Management Association annual conference, 2023
  • UT Alumni Association’s Outstanding Teacher Award, 2022
  • Faculty Advisor of the Year Award (Management Society), 2019
  • Richard Reizenstein Outstanding Commitment to Students Award, 2018
  • Haslam’s Allen Keally Outstanding Teaching Award, 2015
  • Experience Learning Faculty Fellows program inaugural member