Todd J. Maurer

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

• organizational behavior
• human resource management
• employee & leadership development

Todd Maurer is a distinguished university professor at Georgia State University and senior associate dean for faculty and research within the J. Mack Robinson College of Business. He has interests in organizational behavior and employee and leader development, especially understanding and managing how people develop toward their full potential in careers and life.

Todd is a past winner of 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.” He is an elected to fellow of the American Psychological Association and also the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for “outstanding and unusual contributions to the field.” He has also served as a senior consortium research fellow in relation to the Department of Defense. According to a published analysis, Professor Maurer was among the most productive (e.g., top 1%) researchers published in premier journals of his field. In another study of scientists worldwide, he was listed among the top 2% of Business & Management researchers based on an analysis of scientists’ career-long impact via citations of their work. He has served on the editorial boards of leading applied psychology and management journals.

Research that he 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, the SHRM Foundation, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He has also worked with a variety of organizations such as BellSouth, Sprint, Georgia-Pacific, Brown and Williamson, King and Spalding, Chick-fil-A, the City of Atlanta, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Strategic Studies Group, as well as several police and firefighter organizations, as examples.

Dr. Maurer often combines practical with research perspectives into the courses that he delivers. His teaching at the undergraduate, master’s, executive doctorate, and Ph.D. levels has included courses on enhancing leadership skills, leadership to create human value, career-relevant learning and development, employee/career development interventions and processes, human resource recruitment and selection, human individual differences, and personnel psychology.

Professor Maurer led the Department of Managerial Sciences from 2004 to 2011 as department chair, working to enhance programs, productivity, and strengthen infrastructure and support for research. From 2011 to 2015, he was the director of a multidisciplinary institute, the Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations, when he worked to further multiple disciplinary research connections across the college of business and support research and student success. From 2015 to 2016, he served as associate dean for sponsored research, conducting an analysis of challenges and opportunities for grant funding in the business discipline via an NSF-funded project involving 24 business school deans. Sponsored program awards and grant submissions in Robinson increased from an FY14 baseline to FY16 by approximately 75 percent (sponsored awards in FY24 increased approximately 250% compared to that baseline). From 2016 to 2019, he became Robinson’s associate dean for research strategy, responsible to provide vision and leadership around Robinson’s broader research mission, including its two doctoral programs (Ph.D., DBA). During that time, rankings from the University of Texas at Dallas showed Robinson as the highest ranked school for research productivity in Georgia and among the highest ranked schools in the southeastern United States. Presently he is Robinson’s senior associate dean for faculty and research, being responsible for the college’s research mission, strategic initiatives, sponsored programs, governance leadership for academic departments and college committees, and overseeing faculty hiring, development, promotion, compensation, and retention of more than 200 FTE faculty across 12 academic departments. Todd also works closely with other college leaders focusing on fund-raising, finance and budget, and academic programs.

A strong believer in the transformative potential of education for individuals and families, Todd is the grandson of a coal miner and son of a first-generation college student, both of whom encouraged him to become a first-generation graduate student.