About the journal

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. He 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 is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and sits on the editorial board of Journal of Organizational Behavior. He also reviews (on an adhoc basis) for Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of World Business.

Claire Castle graduated from the University of Leicester in 1992. She has worked on peer-reviewed STM journals since 1996.

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. He holds a PhD from LaTrobe University in Australia. His research interests include HRM and call centres, absenteeism and employee turnover and trade unions and organizational performance. He became Editor-in-Chief in January 2006.

Paul Edwards is Professor of Industrial Relations in the Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He edited Work, Employment and Society for three years, and during 2004-7 is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Research. His publications include (with Judy Wajcman) The Politics of Working Life (OUP, 2005) and (with John Storey and Keith Sisson) Managers in the Making (Sage, 1997). He edited Industrial Relations (Blackwell, 1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006, OUP). 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 relation in small firms.

Gail Fairhurst is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes. In 2005, she won the Best Article Award for the Communication discipline from the International Communication Association (with L. Putnam). She has twice received the National Communication Association's Best Article Award (2002 with F. Cooren & D. Cahill, 1994) as well as Best Book Award (1997 with R. Sarr) for the Organizational Communication Division. She is the coauthor of The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 1996). Most recently, she is the author of Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology (Sage, 2007). In addition to recent book chapters in the New Handbook of Organizational Communication and Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse, she is widely published in both communication and organizational science journals. She has also served on numerous editorial boards. Finally, Gail has worked as a process consultant, executive coach, and trainer for organizations such as Procter & Gamble, Boeing, McDonald’s, General Electric, Kroger, Fluor Daniel, Merrill Lynch, State Farm Insurance, U.S. Air Force, and Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati among others.

Daniel G. Gallagher is the CSX Corporation Professor of Management at James Madison University, USA. He earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois with concentrations in the areas of industrial psychology and economics. He has also been a member of the faculty at the University of Iowa, and Queen’s University, Canada. Professor Gallagher’s research career has focused upon a range of topics including: impasse resolution procedures, negotiations, organizational and union commitment, part-time employment, and most recently - the growth and implications of contingent and non-standard employment arrangements. He has more than 25 years of experience as an ad hoc referee and editorial board member for many top-tier OB, IR, HRM, and management related journals.

Alice Gilbertson graduated from Somerville College, Oxford in 1993, and has Masters degrees from University College London and Goldsmiths College. She has worked on peer-reviewed academic journals since 1997.

Alice will be on maternity leave from February 2008 until the end of the year.

Neil Walshe graduated from Queen's University, Belfast in 2001. He holds an MSc. from The Institute of Work Psychology in Sheffield. Currently, he is working towards a PhD. in Organizational Psychology through Birkbeck College, University of London looking at courage in organisations.