Dr. Berrin Erdogan teaches courses on organizational behavior, human resources management, rewards systems, and performance management at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research focuses on two themes.

First, she examines how leaders lead through the relationships they build with their employees, and the implications of manager-employee relationships for employee effectiveness, retention, and well-being. Second, she is interested in understanding person-job fit and misfit, with a focus on why and how employees find themselves overqualified for their jobs and the consequences of being overqualified. She conducted studies and shared results with organizations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, information technology, construction, and banking among others, in the USA, UK, China, Turkey, Vietnam, France, and India. To date, she has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters, in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. 

She also co-authored 4 textbooks. She has been elected a fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Association for Psychological Science (APS) for her unique and unusual contributions to psychological science. She served as an Associate Editor for European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Personnel Psychology, and is a former Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. 

She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She served as a Fulbright Specialist and visiting scholar, and gave invited talks in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the USA.