Todd J. Maurer
Professor and Chair
Department of Managerial Sciences
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Room: 1039, RCB Building
Phone: 404-413-7538
E-Mail: tmaurer@gsu.edu
Personal Web Page:


EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Akron
M.A., University of Akron
B.S., University of Pittsburgh

SPECIALIZATIONS:
Organizational Behavior
Human Resource Management
Employee & Leadership Development

Professor Maurer has conducted applied research or consulted on issues including employee and leader development, performance appraisal and feedback, aging workers, human resource testing and selection, job analysis, and legal concerns. Research that he has conducted has been supported by a variety of sponsors, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Institute and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

He has worked with a variety of organizations such as BellSouth, Sprint, Georgia-Pacific, Brown and Williamson, King and Spalding, and The City of Atlanta as examples.

In 2003 he won the ‘Outstanding Human Resource Development Scholar Award’ from the Academy of Human Resource Development for having “demonstrated a continuing record of scholarly productivity and influence in the profession.” In 2002 he won the Sidney Fine Award for Research on Analytic Strategies to Study Jobs from SIOP, and in 2003 he was elected to Fellow of SIOP and of the American Psychological Association for “outstanding and unusual contributions to the field.”

According to a published survey, he has been listed among the most productive researchers published in premier journals of that field. He has served the editorial boards of leading applied psychology and management journals.

His teaching at the undergraduate, master’s and PhD levels has included courses on Enhancing Leadership Skills, Career-relevant Learning and Development, Employee/Career Development Interventions and Processes, Human Resource Recruitment and Selection, Human Individual Differences, and Personnel Psychology.


PUBLICATIONS:
  • Maurer, T., Lippstreu, M. & Judge, T. (in press). Structural model of employee involvement in skill development activity: The role of individual differences. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
  • Maurer, T. & Solamon, J. (2006). The science and practice of a structured employment interview coaching program. Personnel Psychology. 59(2), 433-456.
  • Maurer, T, Weiss, M, & Barbeite, F. (2003). A model of involvement in work-related learning and development activity: The effects of individual, situational, motivational and age variables. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), 707-724.
  • Maurer, T., Pierce, H. & Shore, L. (2002). Perceived beneficiary of employee development activity: A three-dimensional social exchange model. Academy of Management Review, 27(3), 432-444.
  • Maurer, T. & Rafuse, N. (2001). Learning not litigating: Managing employee development and avoiding claims of age discrimination. Academy of Management Executive, 15, 110-121.