Human Relations impact factor rises to 1.103
We are pleased to report that our Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) impact factor for 2007 showed a significant increase to 1.103. We are now 8/57 in the Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary) category and 38/81 in the Management rankings. A huge thanks to all our authors, reviewers and readers for helping us to achieve this excellent result.
Human Relations gets top rating in ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide 2008
Human Relations was awarded 4 stars - the highest rating - in the UK Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide 2008, which provides a guide to the range, subject matter and relative quality of journals in which business, management and economics academics might wish to publish empirical and theoretical results of research.
Call for papers
We are inviting submissions for a special issue:
Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Guest editors: Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier and Sukanya Sen Gupta (Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University)
The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2009 and the special issue is intended for publication in late 2010 / early 2011.
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Turnaround time
The average time from submission of an article to receiving a first decision is now under 10 weeks.
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A fond farewell to Neil Walshe
Human Relations bid a fond farewell to Neil Walshe in October. Neil has served the journal as a very willing and able Editorial Assistant over the past four years and leaves us to focus on writing up his PhD on courage in organisations. The Editorial Team will miss his enthusiastic input and good humour and wishes him lots of luck and success for the future. We look forward to seeing him at the AoM in 2009.
Meanwhile, we are very pleased to welcome aboard Alice Ellingham as our temporary Editorial Assistant - Alice has hit the ground running and is a valued addition to the team.
A warm welcome to Mike Noon
We are delighted to announce that Professor Mike Noon joined the Human Relations Editorial Team as an Associate Editor in October.
Mike 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). His 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).
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December's FREE ACCESS article:
The relationship between trust, attachment, and antisocial work behaviors
Stefan Thau, Craig Crossley, Rebecca J. Bennett, and Sabine SczesnyHuman Relations.2007 60: 1155-1179.
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New Editorial Board members
We are very happy to welcome the following new members to our Editorial Board:
John Antonakis (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
John Antonakis is a Professor at the Institute of Research in Management (IRM, formerly IUMI). His primary area of research is leadership--its antecedents and consequences--studied from an applied psychology and management perspective
Yehuda Baruch (University of East Anglia, UK)
Yehuda Baruch is Professor of Management at Norwich Business School. His primary research interests are careers, HRM, impact of MBA, response rate in surveys and previously, teleworking/telecommuting.
Timothy Clark (University of Durham, UK)
Professor Clark is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Durham Business School. He is a former Associate Editor of Human Relations and in the last ten years has conducted a series of research projects into different aspects of the management consultancy industry.
Catherine Connelly (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Catherine Connelly is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the DeGroote School of Business. Her research focuses "non-standard" employment, organizational citizenship behaviors, organizational justice, impression management, and reasons for pursuing non-standard employment.
Suzy Fox (Loyola University of Chicago, USA)
Suzy Fox is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of HR and Employment Relations and Director, Institute of HR and Employment Relations at the Graduate School of Business. She is a former Associate Editor of Human Relations. Her primary research interests center around the well-being of employees in the workplace.
Timothy Kuhn (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Timothy Kuhn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. His research interests include communication, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder interactions, and complex change processes; processes of identity negotiation; intensive and professional service environments; how knowledge shapes organizational activity; and how groups collaborate and make decisions.
Janet P. Near (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Janet Near is Professor in Management and Dale M. Coleman Chair of Management at eh Kelley School of Business. Her current research projects are on antecedents and consequences of life satisfaction and antecedents of whistle-blowing and consequences for the firm and the whistle-blower.
Christopher Wright (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Dr Christopher Wright Associate Professor and Acting Chair of Work and Organisational Studies in the School of Economics and Business. His research interests include human resource management, information technology and work, management consulting, managerial & professional identity, organisational behaviour, organisational change and the future of work.
Arthur Yeung (China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China)
Dr Yeung is Philips Chair Professor of HRM, Professor of Management, Associate Dean, Director of Centre of Organization and People Excellence. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of Business Administration and Director of China Center at University of Michigan Business School. His research interests focus on building organizational capability for strategic implementation, organizational learning and transformation, strategic HRM, and leadership development.
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Academy of Management, Anaheim, August 2008
Human Relations enjoyed a successful conference - it was great to see so many of you at our stand in the Exhibition Hall and at our Reviewers' Reception (for those of you who enjoyed the catering, I'm sure you'll agree it gave a whole new meaning to having ‘Big Cheeses’ present!).
Papers in press
Here are some forthcoming Human Relations papers to look out for. Register to receive the table of contents by email, the moment each issue is published online.
volume 62, number 1, January 2009
CONTENTS
Preserving masculinity in service work: An exploration of the underreporting of customer anti-social behaviour Victoria Bishop, Catherine M. Cassell and Helge Hoel
The emotional implications of perceived organizational politics: A process model Christopher C. Rosen, Kenneth J. Harris and Michele K. Kacmar
'I'm tired': Differential effects of physical and emotional fatigue on workload management strategies Christopher M. Barnes and Linn Van Dyne
'We're not banks': Exploring self-discipline, subjectivity and co-operative work Anita Mangan
Religious dimensions and work obligation: A country institutional profile model Praveen K. Parboteeah, Martin Hoegl and John Cullen
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
volume 62, number 2, February 2009
CONTENTS
Disentangling approaches to framing in conflict and negotiation research: a meta-paradigmatic perspective Art Dewulf, Barbara Gray, Linda Putnam, Roy Lewicki, Aarts Noelle, Rene Bouwen and Cees van Woerkum
Leisure as a coping resource: A test of the job demand-control-support model Allan D. Joudrey and Jean E. Wallace
Careers and identity in flexible working: Do flexible identities fare better? Gudela Grote and Sabine Raeder
'It's a guesthouse not a brothel': Policing sex in the home-workplace MariaLaura Di Domenico and Peter Fleming
A qualitative investigation into the construct validity of vigor and its antecedents Ofira Shraga and Arie Shirom
volume 62, number 3, March 2009
Special issue: Constructing identity in organizations Guest Editors: Tom Keenoy, Sierk Ybema, Armin Beverungen,Nick Ellis, Cliff Oswick and Ida Sabelis
CONTENTS
Articulating identity: A discursive perspective Sierk Ybema, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis and Ida Sabelis
Working identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity Caroline A. Clarke, Andrew D. Brown and Veronica Hope-Hailey
Beyond dis-identification: A discursive approach to self-alienation in contemporary organizations Jana Costas and Peter Fleming
Muslim businesswomen doing boundary work: the negotiation of Islam, gender and ethnicity within entrepreneurial contexts Caroline Essers and Yvonne Benschop
Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor identity work Simon Down and James Reveley
Narrative, life story and manager identity: A case study in autobiographical identity work Tony J. Watson
Also in press ...
Developing International Organizational Change Theory using Cases from China Paul S. Hempel and Maris G. Martinsons
Organizational commitment and the well-being of temporary agency workers: A longitudinal study Nathalie Galais and Klaus Moser
The 'boundaryless' career and career boundaries: Applying an institutionalist perspective to ICT workers in the context of Nigeria Afam Ituma and Ruth Simpson
Managing difference in feminized work: Men, otherness and social practice Ruth Simpson and Alison Pullen
Constrained choices in alliance formations: cupids and organizational marriages Kimberlie J. Stephens, Janet Fulk and Peter R. Monge
Life-quality decisions: Tension-management strategies used by individuals when making tradeoffs Amy Mickel and Elise Dallimore
Tables of contents
Here are some recent tables of contents, just in case you missed them. Register to receive the table of contents by email, the moment each issue is published online.
volume 61, number 12, December 2008
CONTENTS
Mentoring and network ties
Mary K. Feeney and Barry Bozeman
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1651-1676.
The effect of bias on the advancement of working mothers: Disentangling legitimate concerns from inaccurate stereotypes as predictors of advancement in academe
Eden B. King
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1677-1711.
Shared work values and team member effectiveness: The mediation of trustfulness and trustworthiness
Li-Fang Chou, An-Chih Wang, Ting-Yu Wang, Min-Ping Huang, and Bor-Shiuan Cheng
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1713-1742.
Similarity, familiarity and access to elite work in Hollywood: Employer and employee characteristics in breakthrough employment
Paul F. Skilton
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1743-1773.
The social meaning and function of food rituals in healthcare practice: An ethnography
Di Thomson and Anne-Marie Hassenkamp
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1775-1802.
Thanks to reviewers
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1803-1807.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1809-1811.
[Erratum re Thanks to Reviewers]
volume 61, number 11, November 2008
CONTENTS
The importance of being `Indian': Identity centrality and work outcomes in an off-shored call center in India
Diya Das, Ravi Dharwadkar, and Pamela Brandes
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1499-1530
Should I stay or should I go? The role of risk in employee turnover decisions
James M. Vardaman, David G. Allen, Robert W. Renn, and Karen R. Moffitt
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1531-1563
Judgments about knowledge importance: The roles of social referents and network structure
Sze-Sze Wong
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1565-1591
The role of transformational leadership in enhancing team reflexivity
Michaéla C. Schippers, Deanne N. Den Hartog, Paul L. Koopman, and Daan van Knippenberg
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1593-1616
Variability as a source of stability: Studying routines in the elderly home care setting
Anna Essén
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1617-1644
volume 61, number 10, October 2008
CONTENTS
The coproduction of organizational presence: A study of Médecins Sans Frontières in action
François Cooren, Boris H.J.M. Brummans, and Damien Charrieras
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1339-1370
Gender, age and tenure as moderators of work-related stressors' relationships with job performance: A meta-analysis
Arie Shirom, Simona Shechter Gilboa, Yitzhak Fried, and Cary L. Cooper
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1371-1398
The effects of private equity and buy-outs on HRM in the UK and the Netherlands
Nicolas Bacon, Mike Wright, Natalia Demina, Hans Bruining, and Paul Boselie
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1399-1433
Organizational unlearning
Eric W.K. Tsang and Shaker A. Zahra
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1435-1462
Group diversity and group identification: The moderating role of diversity beliefs
Rolf van Dick, Daan van Knippenberg, Silvia Hägele, Yves R.F. Guillaume, and Felix C. Brodbeck
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1463-1492
Human Relations Prize: Best article in the 2007 volume
Human Relations, 2008, 61: 1493
volume 61, number 9, September 2008
Special issue: Workers, risk and the new economy
Guest Editors: Paul Edwards, Monder Ram & Vicki Smith
CONTENTS
Introduction to special issue: Workers, risk and the new economy
Paul Edwards, Monder Ram, and Vicki Smith
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1163-1170
Gender, risk and employment insecurity: The masculine breadwinner subtext
Elisabeth Kelan
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1171-1202
Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers
Susan J. Lambert
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1203-1227
The inequality of security: Winners and losers in the risk society
Marianne Cooper
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1229-1258
Rethinking risk in the new economy: Age and cohort effects on unemployment and re-employment
Stephen Lippmann
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1259-1292
Overcoming the risks of restructuring through the integrative bargaining process: Two case studies in a French context
Pierre Garaudel, Florent Noël, and Géraldine Schmidt
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1293-1331
volume 61, number 8, August 2008
CONTENTS
Making sense of sensemaking narratives
Andrew D. Brown, Patrick Stacey, and Joe Nandhakumar
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1035-1062
Reinventing human resource management: Business partners, internal consultants and the limits to professionalization
Christopher Wright
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1063-1086
Elucidating the bonds of workplace humor: A relational process model
Cecily Cooper
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1087-1115
The politics of gossip and denial in interorganizational relations
Ad van Iterson and Stewart R. Clegg
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1117-1137
Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research
Yehuda Baruch and Brooks C. Holtom
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1139-1160
volume 61, number 7, July 2008
Special issue: Food, work and organization
Guest Editors: Rob B Briner and Andrew Sturdy
CONTENTS
Introduction to food, work and organization
Rob B. Briner and Andrew Sturdy
Human Relations 2008; 61: 907-912
Every bite you take . . . food and the struggles of embodied subjectivity in organizations
Michaela Driver
Human Relations 2008; 61: 913-934
Manna from heaven: The exuberance of food as a topic for research in management and organization
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Carlos Cabral-Cardoso, and Stewart Clegg
Human Relations 2008; 61: 935-963
The regulation of smoking at work
Joanna Brewis and Christopher Grey
Human Relations 2008; 61: 965-987
Eating with the Mafia: Belonging and violence
Martin Parker
Human Relations 2008; 61: 989-1006
Drinking beer and understanding organizational culture embodiment
Maria Tereza Flores-Pereira, Eduardo Davel, and Neusa Rolita Cavedon
Human Relations 2008; 61: 1007-1026
Contact
Please send comments or queries about this newsletter, or any aspect of the journal, to Claire Castle, Managing Editor.