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Mark Somers

Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, MT School of Management

3025 Central Avenue Building (CAB)

About Me

Mark Somers is a professor of management at NJIT and holds a joint appointment at the Rutgers Business School. He received a BS in Psychology from Tulane University, and MBA from Baruch College and a PhD in Business from the City University of New York.

Education

Ph.D. ; CUNY ; Business ; 1986

M.B.A. ; CUNY Bernard M Baruch College ; Industrial Organizational Psychology ; 1982

B.S. ; Tulane University of Louisiana ; Psychology ; 1977

Website

http://web.njit.edu/~somers

2025 Fall Courses

HRM 601 - ORG BEHAVIOR IN TECH ORGS

MRKT 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Teaching Interests

Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Organizational Design

Past Courses

HRM 301: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR

HRM 301: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

HRM 303: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGT

HRM 601: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

HRM 601: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

MGMT 390: PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

MGMT 682: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS I

MGMT 698: PROB & STAT FOR BUSINESS

MGMT 699: ST: APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH

MGMT 699: ST: MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

MRKT 330: PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING

MRKT 631: MARKETING RESEARCH

Research Interests

Commitment in Organizations Nonlinear Dynamics and Management Theory, Artificial Neural Networks, Ethical Conduct in Organizations

Journal Article

Mark Somers. 2025. "When Epistemologies Collide: Data Science Epistemology and Organizational Theory and Research." Organizational Psychology Review , no. 15 , pp. 380-394.

Mark Somers, Rajiv Mehta, Yuchao Ma, Rolph Anderson, Takao Ito, Tsutomu Ito, Jolanta Mazur , William V Rapp, Jose C. Casal. 2024. "Impact of Servant Leadership and Narcissism on Firm Performance: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Chinese International Strategic Distribution Channel Alliances." Journal of Global Marketing , vol. 37 , no. 1 , pp. 42-61.

Mark Somers. 2024. "Implementing Pluralistic Models of Scholarly Impact in Business Schools with Performance Management Principles to Meet Stakeholder Expectations ." Quality Assurance in Education , vol. 32 , no. 1 , pp. 127-140.

Mark Somers. 2023. "A Test of a Configurational Model of Agency Perfornance in the United States Federal Government using Machine Learning Methodology ." International Journal of Public Administration , vol. 46 , no. 1 , pp. 43-55.

Dee Birn, Mark Somers. 2023. "Past as prologue: Taylorism, the new scientific management and managing human capital." International Journal of Organizational Analysis , vol. 31 , no. 6 , pp. 2610-2622.

Mark Somers. 2022. "Reciprocity in Leader and Follower Behavior Among Federal Employees: Test Of A Nonrecursive Model ." Public Administration Quarterly , vol. 46 , no. 1 , pp. 22-38.

Mark Somers, Dee Birnbaum, Jose C. Casal, . 2021. "Supervisor Support, Control Over Work Methods and Employee Well-Being: New Insights Into Nonlinearity From Artificial Neural Networks." The International Journal of Human Resource Management , vol. 32 , no. 7 , pp. 1620-1642.

Mark Somers, Jose C. Casal. 2021. "Patterns of Coping with Work-Related Stress: A Person-Centered Analysis with Text Data." Stress & Health , vol. 37 , no. 2 , pp. 223-231.

Cesar Bandera, Mark Somers, Katia Passerini, Mary Kate Naatus, Kevin Pon. 2020. "Disruptions as opportunities for new thinking: Applying the studio model to business education." Knowledge Management Research & Practice , vol. 18 , no. 1 , pp. 81-92.

Mark Somers, Dee Birnbaum, Linda Finch, Jose C. Casal. 2019. "Psychological Attachment to Nursing in the Early Career: Occupational Commitment Profiles, Motivational Patterns, Retention and Performance." Journal of Vocational Education and Training , vol. 71 , no. 4 , pp. 501-518.

Mark Somers, Dee Birnbaum, Jose C. Casal. 2019. "An Empirical Test of Conceptual Arguments to Retire the Three-Component Model of Work Commitment: Implications for Commitment Research." Personnel Review , vol. 49 , no. 3 , pp. 887-902.

Mark Somers, dee Birnbaum, Jose C. Casal. 2019. "Application of the Person-Centered Model to Well-Being Research: An Investigation of Profiles of Employee Well-Being." Employee Relations , vol. 41 , no. 4 , pp. 649-661.

Mark Somers. 2018. " Strategies for Improving Measurement Models for Secondary Data in Public Administration Research: Illustrations from the Federal Employment Viewpoint Survey." Public Administration Review , vol. 78 , no. 2 , pp. 228-239.

Mark Somers, Jose C. Casal, . 2017. "Introducing neural computing in governance research: Applying self-organizing maps to configurational studies.." Corporate Governance: An International Review , vol. 25 , no. 6 , pp. 440-453.

Chapter

Mary Kate Naatus, Katia Passerini, Kevin Pon , Mark Somers. "Post-COVID-19 future of hybrid education: internationalization, inclusion, opportunities." "The Future of Business Schools: Purpose, Action, Impact," pp. 28-40. Edward Elgar, 2022.

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