Conferences

Every year we attend conferences in order to meet our authors and reviewers. In the coming year, we expect to attend those conferences listed below. Please email us if you would like to make an appointment to meet an editor at a conference to discuss a possible future submission, or any other journal matter. We would be delighted to meet you!

Annual Meeting of the Western Academy of Management, Oakland, 26–29 March, 2008.

23rd Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, San Francisco, 10–12 April, 2008.

58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, 22–26 May, 2008.

Institute of Work Psychology International Conference, Sheffield, 18–20 June 2008.

American Sociological Association's 103rd Annual Meeting, Boston, 1–4 August 2008.

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, 8–13 August 2008.

At this conference we will have our own stand in the main exhibition hall. Please drop by for a free issue of the journal, information on current calls for papers, and a Human Relations badge in this season’s colour.

Editors will be available throughout the conference to discuss the journal, our aims and scope, submission and peer review procedures. If you would like specific advice about the suitability of a paper for submission to the journal, you may like to visit the stand when the appropriate editor is available - we'll give details of these times and dates nearer to the conference:
Stephen Deery will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM, organizational performance, and trade unions.
Karen Lee Ashcraft will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.
Gail Fairhurst will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.
Dan Gallagher will be available to discuss papers in the field of impasse resolution procedures, negotiations, organizational and union commitment, part-time employment, and contingent and non-standard employment arrangements.

We also host a referees' reception at this conference, to thank our referees for their contribution to the journal.

British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Harrogate, 9–11 September, 2008.

Neil Walshe at the Human Relations stand
Neil Walshe welcoming delegates to the Human Relations stand at the Academy of Management conference.