Human Relations is 60 years old!

It is 60 years since Human Relations was founded jointly by the Tavistock Institute and the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan.

1947-2007
The Tavistock was itself founded in 1947. Its innovative work met some hostility in academia, and so the Institute decided to found its own journal, in partnership with Kurt Lewin's Research Centre for Group Dynamics at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan. Later this year, we shall be publishing an article on the development of the journal over the subsequent six decades, written by Ray Loveridge and Paul Willman, two former Editors-in-Chief.

Highlights from the archive
As part of our anniversary celebrations, we shall be making a large selection of highlights from the Human Relations archives freely available throughout this year. The first group are listed below, but keep checking our homepage for classics you may have forgotten, old friends worth revisiting ....

Overcoming resistance to change
Lester Coch and John R. P. French Jr.

Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting: An examination of the psychological situation and defences of a work group in relation to the social structure and technological content of the work system.
E. L. Trist and K. W. Bamforth

Trade-union workshop organization in the printing industry - the Chapel
A. J. M. Sykes

Management sanctions and absence control
Nigel Nicholson

Supervisory methods related to productivity, absenteeism, and labour turnover
Michael Argyle, Godfrey Gardner and Frank Cioffi

The dual career family: A variant pattern and social change
Rhona Rapoport and Robert N. Rapoport

Towards a political theory of organizational intervention
Andrew M. Pettigrew

Organizational boundaries and inter-organizational conflict
Howard Aldrich

Images of inequality in Sweden and Britain
Richard Scase

Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority
Stanley Milgram

Dan Gallagher becomes an editor

Bringing contingency expertise to the Editorial Team
We are delighted that Dan Gallagher has agreed to become an Associate Editor. Dan is based in the Department of Management, James Madison University. His recent research has looked at workers employed on contingent or fixed-term employment contracts. These studies have covered a broad range of contractual arrangements and types of positions (day-labors to IT specialists). Dan also has a longstanding interest in the application of OB principles to the study of organizations (i.e. unions) which fall outside the traditional scope of a business enterprise.
Click here to see the full Editorial Team.

Editorial Board latest

We are very glad that Vanessa Druskat and Anand Narasimhan have joined the Human Relations Editorial Board. Anand is a former Human Relations Reviewer of the Year, based at Imperial College London. Vanessa is also a stalwart reviewer; she is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Whittlemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Click here to see the full Editorial Board.

Call for papers

We are currently inviting submissions for a special issue on

Socially constructing safety

Guest editors: Nick Turner (University of Manitoba) and Garry C. Gray (Institute for Work and Health)

Click here to see the full call for papers, and guidelines for submitting.

The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2007 and the special issue is intended for publication in late 2008/ beginning 2009.