Publications

 Articles in Refereed Journals 

PUBLISHED

1. Erez, M. & Somech, A. (1996). Group productivity loss - The rule or the exception: The effects of culture and group based motivation. Academy of Management Journal, 39, 1513-1537.

2. Rosenblatt, Z. & Somech, A. (1998). Work behavior of Israeli elementary-school principals: Expectations vs. reality. Educational Administration Quarterly, 34, 505-532.

3. Somech, A. & Bogler, R. (1999). Tacit knowledge in academia: Its effects on student learning and achievement. The Journal of Psychology, 133, 605-616.

4. Drach-Zahavy, A. & Somech, A. (1999). Constructive thinking: A complex coping variable that distinctively influences the effectiveness of specific difficult goals. Personality and Individual Differences, 27, 969-984. 

5. Somech, A. (2000). The independent and the interdependent selves: Different meaning in different cultures. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 24, 161-172.

6. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2000). Understanding extra-role behavior in schools: The relationships between job satisfaction, sense of efficacy, and teachers’ extra-role behavior. Teaching and Teacher Education, 16, 649-659.

7. Seginer, R. & Somech, A. (2000). In the eyes of the beholder: How adolescents, teachers, and school counselors construct adolescent images. Social Psychology of Education, 4, 139-157.

8. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2001). Influence strategies of principals: Ordinary times compared with times of change. Journal of School Leadership, 11, 25-47.

9. Drach-Zahavy, A. & Somech, A. (2001). Understanding team's innovation: The Role of team processes and structures. Group Dynamics, 5, 111-123.

10. Miassy-Maljak, N. & Somech, A. (2001). The relationship between Jewish religiosity and burnout of principals: The meaning of educational work and role variables as mediating in the religiosity–burnout relationship. Studies in Educational Administration & Organization, 25, 85-120.

11. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2002). Relative power and influence strategy: The effects of agent/target power on superior’s choices of influence strategies. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23, 167-179.

12. Drach-Zahavy, A. & Somech, A. (2002). Coping with health problems: The distinctive relationships of Hope sub-scales with constructive thinking and resource allocation. Personality and Individual Differences, 33, 103-117.

13. Bogler, R. & Somech, A. (2002). Motives to study and socialization processes: The case of university students. The Journal of Social Psychology, 142, 233-248.

14. Drach-Zahavy, A. & Somech, A. (2002). Team heterogeneity and its relationship with team support and team effectiveness: An investigation of school-staff teams. Journal of Educational Administration, 40, 44-66.

15. Somech, A. (2002). Explicating the complexity of participative management: An investigation of multiple dimensions. Educational Administration Quarterly, 38, 341-371.

16. Somech, A. & Bogler, R. (2002). Antecedents and consequences of teacher organizational and professional commitment. Educational Administration Quarterly, 38, 555-577.

17. Somech, A. & Miassy-Maljak, N. (2003). The relationship between religiosity and burnout of principals: The meaning of educational work and role variables as mediators. Social Psychology of Education, 6, 61-90.

18. Somech, A. (2003). Relationships of participative leadership with relational demography variables: A multi-level perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 24, 1003-1018.

19. Drach-Zahavy, A., Somech, A., Granot, M. & Spitzer, A. (2004). Can we win them all? The benefits and costs of structured compared with flexible innovation-implementation approaches. Journal of Organizational Behavior, special issue on Innovation, 25, 217-234.

20. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2004). Exploring organizational citizenship behavior from an organizational perspective: The relationship between organizational learning and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77, 281-298.

21. Somech, A. (2004). Teacher's personal and team empowerment and their relations to organizational outcomes: Contradictory or compatible constructs? Educational Administration Quarterly, 41(2), 237-266. 

22. Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2004). Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers’ organizational commitment, professional commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in schools. Teaching and Teacher Education, 20, 277-289. 

23. Somech, A. (2005). Directive versus participative leadership: Two complementary approaches to managing school effectiveness. Educational Administrative Quarterly, 39, 1-24.

24. Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2005). Organizational citizenship behavior in school: How does it relate to participation in decision-making? Journal of Educational Administration, 43, 420-438.

25. Somech, A. (2006). The effects of leadership style and team process on performance and innovation in functionally heterogeneous teams. Journal of Management, 32, 1-26.

26. Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A(2006). Professionalism and helping: Harmonious or discordant concepts? An attribution theory perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 1892–1923. 

27. Somech, A. & Wenderow, M. (2006). The impact of participative and directive leadership on teachers' performance: The intervening effects of job structuring, decision domain, and LMX. Educational Administrative Quarterly, 42, 746-772.

28. Somech, A. & Ron, I. (2007). Promoting organizational citizenship behavior in schools: The impact of individual and organizational characteristics. Educational Administrative Quarterly, 43(1), .38-66. 

29 Somech, A., & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2007). Strategies for coping with work-family conflict: The distinctive relationships of gender-role ideology.Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12, 1–19.

30 Vigoda-Gadot, E., Beeri, I., Birman-Shemesh, T. & Somech, A. (2007). Group-level organizational citizenship behavior in the education system: A scale reconstruction and validation. Educational Administration Quarterly, 43, 462-493. 

31. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2007). Schools as team-based organizations: A structure-process outcomes approach. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, special issue on Groups in Education, 11, 305-320. 

32. Somech, A. (2008). Managing conflict in school teams: The impact of task and goal interdependence on conflict management and team effectiveness. Educational Administration Quarterly, 44, 359-390.

33 Somech, A., Desivilya, H. S. & Lidogostor, H. (2009). Team conflict management and team effectiveness: The effects of task interdependence and team identification. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 359-378.

34. Somech, A. & Oplatka, I. (2009). Coping with school violence through the lens of teachers' role breadth: The impact of participative management and job autonomy.Educational Administration Quarterly, 45, 424-449 .

35 Desivilya, H. S., Somech, A., & Lidogostor, H. (2010). Innovation and conflict management in work teams: The effects of team identification and task and relationship conflict. Negotiation & Conflict Management Research, 3, 28–48.

36. Belogolovsky, E., & Somech, A. (2010). Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Examining the boundary between in-role behavior and extra-role behavior from the perspective of teachers, principals and parents. Teaching and Teacher Education, 26 914-923.

37. Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A. (2010). From an intra-team to an inter-team perspective of effectiveness: The role of inter-team interdependence and teams' boundary activities. Small Group Research: An International Journal of Theory, Investigation, and Application. 41, 142-174.

38. Benoliel, P., & Somech, A. (2010). Who benefits from participative management? Journal of Educational Administration, 48, 285-308.

39. Somech, A. (2010). Participative decision-making in schools: A mediating-moderating analytical framework for understanding school and teachers outcomes. Educational Administration Quarterly, 46, 174-209.

40 Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A. (2010) Implicit as compared with explicit safety procedures: The experiences of Israeli nurses. Qualitative Health Research, 20, 1406-1417.

41. Nahum- Shani, I. and Somech, A. (2011). Leadership OCB and individual differences: Idiocentrism and allocentrism as moderators of the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership and OCB.Leadership Quarterly, 22(2), 353-366.

42. Somech, A., & Drach-Zahavy, A. (2012). Coping with work-family conflict: The reciprocal and additive contributionsof personal coping and organizational family-friendly support. Work & Stress, 26(1), 68-90.   

43. Belogolovsky, E., & Somech, A. (2012). Teachers' Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Empirical Examination of the Subjective and Dynamic Nature of the Boundary between In-Role and Extra-Role Behavior. The Discretionary Behavior and Performance in Educational Organizations: The Missing Link in Educational Leadership and Management. Advances in Educational Administration. 13, 31-59. 

44. Somech, A ., & Drach-Zahavy, A (2013). Translating team creativity to innovation implementation: The role of team composition and climate for innovation. Journal of Management 39 , 684 -708.

45. Somech, A. & Drach-Zahavy A. (2013) Organizational citizenship behavior and employee's strain: Examining the buffering effects of leader support and participation in decision making., European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 22, 138–149. 

46. Drach-Zahavy A & Somech A. (2013), Linking task and goal interdependence to quality service: The role of the service climate. Journal of Service Management, 24, 151 - 169.

47. Benoliel, P. & Somech, A. (2014). The health and performance effects of participative leadership: Exploring the moderating role of the Big Five personality dimensions. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23, 277-294.

48. Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A., Adami, I.,  Peterfreund, I., Peker, H. Priente, O. (2014) (How) do we learn from errors? A prospectivestudy in hospitals of the linkbetween the ward's learning practices and medication administrationerrors. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 51, 448–457.

49. Somech, A., & Khalaili, A. (2014). Team boundary activity: Its mediating role in therelationship between structural conditions and team innovation. Group & Organization Management, 39, 274 –299. 

50. Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A. (2014). From standardization to resilience: how day-to-day life in healthcare organizations shapes safety. Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs, 2:4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2329-6879.1000179

51. Benoliel, P. & Somech, A. (2015). The role of leader boundary activities inenhancing interdisciplinary team effectiveness. Small Group Research, 46(1), 83– 124.

52. Ben-Sasson & Somech, A. (2015). Do Teachers Misbehave? Aggression in school teams.  Journal of Educational Administration, 53(6), 755-772.

53.Ben Sasson, D., & Somech, A. (2015). Observing aggression of teachers in school teams. Teachers and Teaching, 21(8), 941-957.

54. Drach-Zahavy, A., & Somech, A. (2015). Goal Orientation and Safety Climate Enhancing Versus Compensatory Mechanisms for Safety Compliance?.Group & Organization Management, 40(4), 560-588.

55.Heled, E., Somech, A., & Waters, L.(2015). Psychological capital as a team phenomenon: Mediating the relationship between learning climate and outcomes at the individual and team levels. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(3), 303-314.

56. Somech, A. (2015). The cost of going the extra mile: the relationship between teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior, role stressors, and strain with the buffering effect of job autonomy. Teachers and Teaching, 22(4) , 426-447. 

57. Gilad-Hai, S., & Somech, A. (2015). The day after’: The consequences of an assimilation of innovation in experimental schools. Studies in Educational Administration & Organization, 25, 85-120. (Hebrew).

58. Shani, O., & Somech, A. (2015). The phenomenon of organizational resilience in schools: A qualitative study. Studies in Educational Administration & Organization, 25, 85-120. (Hebrew).

59. Gilad-Hai, S., & Somech, A. (2016). 'The day after': The organizational consequences of innovation implementation in experimental schools. Journal of Educational Administration, 54(1), 19-40. 

60. Benoliel, P., & Somech, A. (2016). Functional heterogeneity and senior management team effectiveness: The mediating role of school leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 54(4), 492-512.

61. Nutov, L., & Somech, A. (2017). Principals going above and beyond: understanding organizational citizenship behavior among school principals. Megamot, 51, 75-90 

62. Nutov, L., & Somech, A. (2017). Principals Going Above and Beyond: Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behavior among School Principals. Journal of School Leadership, 27(2), 184-213.

63.  Somech, A., & Khotaba, S. (2017). An integrative model for understanding team organizational citizenship behavior: Its antecedents and consequences for educational teams. Journal of Educational Administration, 55(6), 671-685. 

64. Benoliel, P., & Somech, A. (2018). A New Perspective for Understanding School Managers' Roles: The Impact of Principals' Boundary Activities on the Effectiveness of School Management Teams. Teachers College Record, 120(3).

65. Somech, A., & Naamneh, M. (2019). Subject coordinators as boundary managers: The impact on team learning and organizational outcomes. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 47(1), 56-73. 

66 . Blondheim, G., & Somech, A. (2019). Student Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Nature and Structure among Students in Elementary and Middle Schools. Teacher and Teaching Education, 83, 110-119. 

67. Somech, A., & Bogler, R. (2019). The pressure to go above and beyond the call of duty: Understanding the phenomenon of citizenship pressure among teachers. Teacher and Teaching Education, 83, 178-187.

68. Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2019). Psychological capital, team resources and organizational citizenship behavior. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 1-19.

69. Somech, A., & Ohayon, B. E. (2019). The trickle-down effect of OCB in schools: The link between leader OCB and team OCB. Journal of Educational Administration. ‏DOI 10.1108/JEA-03-2019-0056

70. Waters, L., Strauss, G., Somech, A., Haslam, N., & Dussert, D. (2020). Does team psychological capital predict team outcomes at work?. International Journal of Wellbeing, 10(1).

71. Perry-Hazan, L., & Somech, A. (2021). Conceptualizing student participation in school decision making: an integrative model. Educational Review, 1-22.

72. Somech, A., & Freedman, I. (2021). Translating teamwork into school effectiveness: A systematic review of two decades of research. European Journal of Educational Management, 4(2), 109-127. https://doi.org/10.12973/eujem.4.2.109

73. Egosi, A., & Somech, A. (2021). How Do Education Champions Promote School Innovation? The Mediating Role of Boundary Activities. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2021.2007267

74. Somech, A., & Eliyahu, N. (2022). Who Applies Pressure to Be a Good Citizen at School? Examining the Phenomenon of Citizenship Pressure Among Subject Teams. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 1-18.

75. Eliyahu, N., & Somech, A. (2023). Team citizenship pressure: How does it relate to OCB and citizenship fatigue. Small Group Research, 54(2), 243-276.DOI: 10464964221105422

76. Bar, A., & Somech, A. (2023). Understanding organisational learning from an integrative perspective: the relationships between inward and outward organisational learning and organisational outcomes. International Journal of Learning and Change, 15(1), 1-27. 

77. Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2023). Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) above and beyond: Teachers' OCB during COVID-19. Teaching and Teacher Education, 130, 104183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104183

78. Mell, I., & Somech, A. (2023). Citizenship pressure in non-formal education organizations: Leaders' idealized influence and organizational identification. European Journal of Educational Management, 6(3), 135-151. https://doi.org/10.12973/eujem.6.3.135E.

79. Levy Zalmanson, A., & Somech, A. (2023). School Principal, Assistant-Principal, and In-Between: Mapping Relationships and Work Patterns. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 1-20.

  80. Birani-Nasraldin, D., Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (2024). Translating team-member exchange relationships to school outcomes: the mediating role of leader-member exchange. Journal of Educational Administration, 62(3), 293-308.

  81. Birani-Nasraldin, D., Somech, A., & Bogler, R. (2024). How does school management team empowerment relate to teachers' organizational citizenship behavior? A moderated mediation model. International Journal of Educational Management.

  82. Birani-Nasraldin, D., Somech, A., & Bogler, R. (2024). The relationship between leaders' psychological capital and organizational outcomes: A crossover model. European Journal of Educational Management, 7(1), 59-72. https://doi.org/10.12973/eujem.7.1.59 

  83. Karayanni, R., Eliyahu, N., Bogler, R., & Somech, A. (in press). Strategies for coping with citizenship pressure: development of a context-specific scale. Work & Stress, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678373.2024.2383199