About the journal

Paul is Professor of Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School, UK and was formerly at Warwick University where he directed the Industrial Relations Research Unit and held several Associate Dean positions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as the Chair of the Academy's Social Science Group, is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Research and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. His publications include (with Judy Wajcman) The Politics of Working Life (OUP, 2005). He edited Industrial Relations (1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006) and he has been an Associate Editor for Human Relations since 2006. His research interests include employment relations at workplace level and new forms of work organization, the personnel policies and practices of multinational companies and employment relations in small firms.

Samuel Aryee is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Aston Business School. He obtained his PhD in organisational sociology from McMaster University. Prior to joining ABS in September 2005, he held faculty positions at the National University of Singapore and Hong Kong Baptist University.

Sam is primarily interested in cross-cultural research in the areas of strategic human resource management, employee-organisation relationship, organisational justice, power and politics in organisations, counterproductive workplace behaviours and work-family interface. His findings in these areas have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Management and Organization Review, and Journal of Organizational Behavior and was previously an associate editor of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. He also reviews (on an adhoc basis) for Academy of Management Journal and Journal of World Business.

Karen Lee Ashcraft is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her work examines relations of power as they unfold in organizational forms and occupational identities, and has appeared in such outlets as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Communication Theory, and Management Communication Quarterly. Her co-authored book with Dennis Mumby, Reworking Gender, revisits the relationship between critical and feminist organization theory, proposing and illustrating an alternative model through the lens of communication. Currently, she is drawing on qualitative research with commercial airline pilots to write a book about the role of gender, race, and sexuality in the evolution of professional identity and occupational segregation.

Terry Beehr is Director of Industrial/Organizational Program at Central Michigan University. He has had long term interest in several research topics, including job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership. He currently is involved in projects on retirement, job stress, career movement, and job satisfaction. One of his specific current interests in the occupational stress area is the nature and effects of social support for the stressed employee. He conducts research primarily in areas often characterised as the social psychology of organisations, including leadership, groups, motivation, attitudes, health, careers, culture, life decisions, and organisational and individual effectiveness. Two of his most active long-term research interests are older employees' decisions to retire and occupational stress.

Claire Castle graduated in Law from the University of Leicester in 1992 and has worked on peer-reviewed STM journals since 1996. She became Managing Editor in February 2008.

Neil Conway is at the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. His main research interests include the psychological contract, work motivation and performance, the impact of HRM on performance and part-time work. He has published articles in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, British Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management Journall. He has written a book with Rob Briner entitled Understanding psychological contracts at work: A critical evaluation of theory and research (2005, Oxford University Press).

Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organisational Psychology at the Business School, Loughborough University. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and British Journal of Management and was previously an associate editor of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. His research interests are in the links between affective and cognitive processes, especially as they relate to job design, safety performance and occupational health. His research has been funded by bodies such as the UK Health and Safety Executive, Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies,
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Organization Studies.

Stephen Deery is Professor of Human Resource Management at King's College, University of London. He was previously Head of the Department of Management and Industrial Relations at the University of Melbourne. His papers have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Journal of Management Studies. His research interests include HRM and call centres, absenteeism and employee turnover and trade unions and organizational performance. Stephen served as Editor-in-Chief from January 2006 to December 2011.

Gail T. Fairhurst is a professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon. Her research and writing interests are in organizational communication, leadership, organizational discourse analysis, framing, identity, and organizational culture.

Gail has published over 60 articles in management and communication journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Human Relations, and Management Communication Quarterly, as well as several book chapters, most recently in The SAGE Handbook of Leadership, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse, and The New Handbook of Organizational Communication: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods (SAGE, 2005). She is the author of three books, The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2011), Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology (SAGE, 2007) and The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 1996), the latter two both award-winning. She has also received "Article of the Year" awards from both the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association.

Gail is also a Fellow of the International Communication Association, a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar. She was also head of the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati for five years and has held visiting appointments at Procter & Gamble, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and Lund University (Sweden).

Mike Noon is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Queen Mary, University of London. He has a PhD from Imperial College, University of London and has held fulltime posts at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales; The Management School, Lancaster University; and Leicester Business School, De Montfort University (where he has Head of the Department of Human Resource Management).

Mike's research interests include: The effects of work transformation on employees and managers; equality and discrimination (with specific reference to ethnic minorities); and contemporary developments in HRM. He has published widely in academic journals, and his recent books are: The Realities of Work (third edition, 2007, co-authored with Paul Blyton, published by Palgrave) and A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (second edition, 2008, co-authored with Ed Heery, published by Oxford University Press).

Mathew L Sheep is Assistant Professor at the College of Business, Illinois State University, USA. Mathew will join the Editorial Team in April 2012. His research interests include work-family balance, leadership, positive organizational behavior (positive psychology), organizational identity, creativity, business ethics, workplace spirituality, and discursive approaches to organization. His research has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations and Journal of Business Ethics. Mathew has won several awards, including Academy of Management's Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award (2007), The Owens Scholarly Achievement Award for best publication in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP, 2011), and the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (2011). Mathew joins the Editorial Team in April 2012.

Nick Turner is a professor and Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Research Programs at Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada. Nick has been on our Editorial Board since 2006 and was our Reviewer of the Year in 2007. Nick's research interests include occupational health psychology, transformational leadership, and work design. Nick's work has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly, among others.