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.

July's FREE ACCESS article:

A critique of transformational leadership: Moral, professional and contingent dimensions of leadership within public services organizations
Graeme Currie and Andy Lockett

Click here to view the Human Relations homepage, which features a different FREE ACCESS article each month.

Click here for FREE ACCESS to a sample online issue.

Come and say hello to us at our stand at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, August 2008

Please drop by our stand (#203, near to the entrance inside the main exhibition hall) between Sunday 10 and Tuesday 12 August, 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 - please see below for details of times and dates:

Stephen Deery, Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM, organizational performance, and trade unions.
Sunday 10 August, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.
Monday 11 August 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Karen Lee Ashcraft joins the Editorial Team as an Associate Editor in August and will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, gender relations, alternative forms of organizing, ethnography, power and culture.
Sunday 10 August, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday 12 August 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Gail Fairhurst, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.
Sunday 10 August, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Dan Gallagher, Associate Editor, 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.
Sunday 10 August, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Monday 11 August 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

Claire Castle, Managing Editor, and
Neil Walshe, Editorial Assistant,
will be happy to answer general queries and receive your comments about the journal - and will be on the stand throughout the conference.

We will also be hosting a reception at this conference, during the evening of Sunday 10 August, to thank our reviewers, authors and other friends for their contribution to the journal.

Calls for papers

We are currently inviting submissions for special issues on:

Private equity buyouts, work and employment relations

Guest editors: Mike Wright (Nottingham University); Geoffrey Wood (University of Sheffield)
The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication at the beginning of 2010.

Interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary career studies

Guest editors: Svetlana N. Khapova (VU University Amsterdam) and Michael B. Arthur (Suffolk University, Boston)
The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication in mid 2010.

Click here to see all our special issue calls for papers and details of forthcoming special issues.

New Editorial Board members

We are very happy to welcome the following new members to our Editorial Board:

Peter Bamberger (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Professor Bamberger joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in 1993 as a Senior Lecturer. Prof. Bamberger is one of the founders of the Smithers Institute for Alcohol-related Work Place Studies at Cornell University. His current research focuses on peer relations in the workplace and their impact on employee emotional well-being and industrial relations.

David E. Guest (King's College, London)

Professor Guest has written and researched extensively in the areas of human resource management, employment relations and the psychological contract, motivation and commitment, and careers. He recently retired from the position of Chairperson of the Human Relations Editorial Management Committee, after giving 13 years of sterling support and guidance. In this unpaid honorary capacity he worked with three editors of Human Relations.

Click here to see all the members of the Human Relations Editorial Board

Papers in press

Here are some forthcoming Human Relations papers to look out for. To receive the table of contents by email, the moment each issue is published online, click here.

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

Every bite you take…food and the struggles of embodied subjectivity in organizations
Michaela Driver

Manna from heaven: The exuberance of food as a topic for research in management and organization
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Carlos Cardosa and Stewart Clegg

The regulation of smoking at work
Joanna Bewis and Chris Grey

Eating with the Mafia: Belonging and Violence
Martin Parker

Drinking beer and understanding organizational culture embodiment
Maria Tereza Flores-Pereira, Eduardo Davel and Neusa Cavedon

volume 61, number 8, August 2008

CONTENTS

Making sense of sensemaking narratives
Andrew Brown, Patrick Stacey and Joe Nandhakumar

Reinventing human resource management: Business partners, internal consultants and the limits to professionalisation
Christopher Wright

Elucidating the bonds of workplace humor: a relational process model
Cecily Cooper

The politics of gossip and denial in inter-organizational relations
Ad van Iterson and Stewart R. Clegg

Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research
Yehuda Baruch & Brooks C. Holtom

volume 61, number 9, September 2008

Special issue: Workers, risk and the new economy

Guest Editors: Paul Edwards, Monder Ram & Vicki Smith

CONTENTS

Guest Editors' introduction
Paul Edwards, Monder Ram & Vicki Smith

Gender, risk and employment insecurity: The masculine breadwinner subtext
Elisabeth Kelan

Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers
Susan J Lambert

The inequality of security: Winners and losers in the risk society
Marianne Cooper

Rethinking risk in the new economy: Age and cohort effects on unemployment and re-employment
Stephen Lippmann

Overcoming the risks of restructuring through the integrative bargaining process: two cases studies in a French context
Géraldine Schmidt, Pierre Garaudel and Florent Noël

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

Gender, age and tenure as moderators of work-related stressors' relationships with job performance: A meta-analysis
Arie Shirom, Simona Gilboa Shechter, Yitzhak Fried and Cary L. Cooper

The effects of private equity and buy-outs on HRM in the UK and the Netherlands
Nick Bacon, Mike Wright, Natalia Demina, Hans Bruining & Paul Boselie

Organizational unlearning
Eric W K Tsang and Shaker Zahra

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

Also in press ...

Judgments about knowledge importance: The role of social referents and how network structure affects their relative influence
Sze-Sze Wong

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

The role of transformational leadership in enhancing team reflexivity
Michaéla C. Schippers, Deanne N. Den Hartog, Paul L. Koopman and Daan van Knippenberg

Variability as a source of stability: studying routines in the elderly home care setting
Anna Essen

The importance of being ‘Indian': Identity centrality and work outcomes in an off-shored call center in India
Ravi Dharwadkar, Diya Das and Pam Brandes

Shared work values and team member effectiveness: The mediation of trustfulness and trustworthiness
Li-Fang Chou, An-Chih Wang, Ting-Yu Wang, Minping Huang and Bor-Shiuan Cheng

Mentoring and network ties
Mary Feeney and Barry Bozeman