What is the academic job market like for organizational behavior business PhDs?

[john125689]

compared to other business PhDs?

[StrategicMGMT]

Good but trending in the wrong direction, as with most b-school PhDs. The main issue with OB is that you sometimes contend with IO psych PhDs. If you go to a good school you'll likely get a job, just the chances of getting a research oriented job decrease year by year. 

[Dice]

I'm an OB candidate on the market now. It's difficult to say what it will be like in 5 years or so when new PhD students will hit the job market. COVID has things in flux but there are also projections that undergraduate enrollments are expected to drop significantly in the next few years, leading some universities to replace tenure-track faculty with non-tenure-track in preparation for that. I agree that if you are set on a research university placement (R1 or high-end R2), you would do best to attend a top (~T50 or above) PhD program. Some students under-place at a teaching or balanced school and then move up after a few pubs, but even that is getting increasingly difficult to achieve, especially if you end up with a 3-3 teaching load.

Social psychology candidates also apply for OB positions in addition to IO psych folk, but it goes both ways. Salary is generally much lower if you apply to psych positions, and you typically need grant experience, so few OB candidates go that route. Post-docs are becoming somewhat more common in the management field, and I suspect more students will take a 6th year to get a publication or two before going to market, so things may look very different a few years from now. My sense is that Accounting has the best tenure-track placement rates, but I don't see a significant difference among other business fields.