Human Relations impact factor increases to 1.372!
We are pleased to reveal that our Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) impact factor increased to 1.372 for 2008. We are now 41/89 in the Management rankings and 7/61 in the Social Sciences category. We are very grateful to our authors, reviewers and readers in helping us to acheive these results.
Call for papers for a Special Issue
Sensemaking, organising and storytelling
Guest editors:
Ian Colville, Andrew D. Brown (University of Bath) and Annie Pye (University of Exeter).
For full details about this call for papers, please go to: http://www.tavinstitute.org/humanrelations/special_issues/sensemaking.html
The deadline for submission is 31 March 2010
This Special Issue is intended for publication in late 2011 or early 2012.
Come and say hello to us at our stand at the Academy of Management, Chicago, August 2009
Please drop by our stand (number 304) between Saturday 8 and Monday 10 August, for a free issue of the journal, information on current calls for papers, and a Human Relations pin badge in this year'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 might like to visit the stand when the appropriate editor is available - details of times and dates will be available in due course:
Stephen Deery, Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM and organisational performance. Saturday 8 August - time to be confirmed. Sunday 9 August - time to be confirmed. Monday 10 August - time to be confirmed.
Gail Fairhurst, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss papers in the field of organisational communication, leadership, and organisational discourse processes. Saturday 8 August, 08:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Sunday 9 August, 4.00 pm. - 5.00 p.m. Sunday 10 August - 09:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m..
Dan Gallagher, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss papers in the field of impasse resolution procedures, negotiations, organisational and union commitment, part-time employment, and contingent and non-standard employment arrangements. Saturday 8 August - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Sunday 9 August - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday 10 August - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Claire Castle, Managing Editor, and Vandana Nath, Editorial Assistant, will be on the stand throughout the conference and be happy to answer general queries and hear your comments about the journal.
Human Relations will also be hosting a reception on the evening of Saturday 8 August, to thank our reviewers, authors and other friends of the journal for their contributions to our success and plan to award the prize for our Reviewer of the Year.
International Industrial Relations Association, Sydney, August 2009
The new world of work, organisations & employment, Sydney, Australia, 24 - 27 August 2009.
Professor Paul Edwards, Associate Editor, will be representing Human Relations at IIRA and will be among the workshop presenters for How to get published in leading journals on Monday 24th August 2009, 3:30 - 5:00pm, location to be confirmed.
Please email us if you would like to make an appointment to meet Professor Edwards to discuss a possible future submission, or any other journal matter.
European Group for Organizational Studies, Barcelona, July 2009
Passion for creativity and innovation: Energizing the study of organizations and organizing. Barcelona, Spain, 2 - 4 July 2009.
Professor Karen Ashcraft, Associate Editor, will be representing Human Relations at EGOS. Please email us if you would like to make an appointment to meet Professor Ashcraft to discuss a possible future submission, or any other journal matter.
Best paper of 2008
We are delighted to announce that the prize for the best article in the 2008 (61st) volume of Human Relations has been awarded to:
The development of a process model of collective turnover
Jean M. Bartunek, Zhi Huang and Ian J. Walsh
Human Relations 2008, 61, 5-38.
Each author received vouchers worth £100 to spend on SAGE books or journals and a year’s free subscription to Human Relations.
June's FREE ACCESS article:
Jessica Bagger, Andrew Li and Barbara A. Gutek
Human Relations. 2008; 61: 187–211.
The Human Relations homepage features a different FREE ACCESS article each month.
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A fond farewell to Alice Gilbertson
Human Relations bid a fond farewell to Alice Gilbertson in March. Alice has been a key member of the Human Relations team, serving as a highly valued Managing Editor from 2004 until taking maternity leave in March 2008. She worked with two editors and her facilitation of a smooth transition between Paul Willman and Stephen Deery was much appreciated. Alice has decided to continue spending time at home with her young son. She will be greatly missed by the team, who all wish her and her family all the very best for the future.
Meanwhile, Claire Castle, who covered the period while Alice was on maternity leave, has agreed to continue as the Managing Editor on a permanent basis.
A warm welcome to Vandana Nath
We are delighted to announce that Vandana Nath became our Editorial Assistant in February. Vandana is working towards her PhD at King's College London, exploring employee turnover in offshored Indian call centres. She was born in New Delhi and has lived and worked in Kodaikanal, Bangalore and the Maldives. She has been a tutor on courses such as Business Strategy, Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour. Her work experience has also included public relations, working with children with special needs, and a spell as a beach magician.
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Turnaround time
The average time from submission of an article to receiving a first decision is currently under 10 weeks.
New Editorial Board members
We are very happy to welcome the following new members to our Editorial Board:
Aichia Chuang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Dr Aichia Chuang is Associate Professor at the College of Management, National Taiwan University. Her research interests include person-environment fit, employee service performance, service climate, customer satisfaction and human resource selection.
Laurie Cohen (Loughborough University, UK)
Professor Laurie Cohen is Professor of Organisation Studies, Associate Dean of Reseach - Social Science and Humanities Faculty and Co-ordinator, Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Research Group at the Business School, Loughborough University. Her research interests include changing careers, careers in emerging forms of organization, and research methods in the study of career, focusing in particular on interpretive approaches and the use of narrative.
Cecily D. Cooper (University of Miami, USA)
Dr Cecily D. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Management at the School of Business, University of Miami. Her current research interests are trust repair, fairness, interpersonal relationships and leadership.
Dan Kärreman (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Professor Dan Kärreman is in the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on topics like critical management studies, knowledge work, identity in organizations, leadership, organizational control, innovation and research methodology.
Mathew Sheep (Illinois State University, USA)
Professor Mathew Sheep is Associate Professor in the College of Business, Illinois State University. His research interests include identity, ethics and corporate social responsibility, organizational creativity, workplace spirituality, and discursive approaches to organization.
Hao Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Professor Hao Zhao is Assistant Professor of Management at the Lally School of Management & Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His primary research interests include entrepreneurship, recruitment and selection, and leadership. He is especially interested in studying individual-level factors that encourage people to become entrepreneurs and succeed, such as self-efficacy, personalities, personal values, emotions, and entrepreneurship education/training.
And our warm thanks go to...
...the following people who retired from the Board recently:
Frank J. Barrett (Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA) Adrian Carr (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Steven P. Feldman (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Stephen Fineman (University of Bath, UK) Mary Jo Hatch (University of Virginia, USA) Monika Kostera (Warsaw University, Poland) Robyn Thomas (Cardiff Business School, UK).View all members of the Human Relations Editorial Board
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 7, July 2009
Special issue: Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew
Guest Editors: Barbara Townley, Nic Beech, Alan McKinlay and Gail Fairhurst
CONTENTS
Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew Barbara Townley, Nic Beech and Alan McKinlay
The organization of creativity in Japanese advertising production Brian Moeran
Latent organizations in the film industry: Contracts, rewards, and resources Nachoem M. Wijnberg and Joris J. Ebbers
The elephant in the room? Class and creative careers in British advertising agencies Charlotte McLeod, Stephanie O'Donohoe and Barbara Townley
Identity affirmation through signature style: A study of toy car designers and collectors Kimberly Elsbach
Impact of dual executive leadership dynamics in cultural organizations Wendy Reid and Rekha Karambayya
volume 62, number 8, August 2009
CONTENTS
Resisting resistance: counter-resistance, consent and compliance in a consultancy firm Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson
When the good times are over: Professionals encountering new technology Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Kajsa Lindberg and Alexander Styhre
Daily job search and distress: Evidence from China Zhaoli Song, Marilyn A. Uy, Shuhua Zhang and Kan Shi
Mind over body: Physical and psychotherapeutic discourses and the regulation of the older worker Susan Ainsworth and Cynthia Hardy
How to sell your soul and still get into heaven: Steven Covey’s epiphanogenic technology of effective selfhood John G. Cullen
volume 62, number 9, September 2009
Special Issue: Socially constructing safety
Guest Editors: Nick Turner and Garry Gray
CONTENTS
Socially constructing safety Nick Turner and Garry Gray
Overcoming dysfunctional momentum: Organizational safety as a social achievement Michelle A. Barton and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Leveraging functionality in safety routines: Examining the divergence of rules and performance Hille C. Bruns
Reclaiming resilience and safety: Resilience activation in the critical period of crisis Edward H. Powley
If human errors are assumed as crimes in a safety culture: A lifeworld analysis of a rail crash Nobuyuki Chikudate
Normal accident theory versus high reliability theory: A resolution and call for an open systems view of accidents Samir Shrivastava, Karan Sonpar and Federica Pazzaglia
What’s needed is application, not reconciliation: A response to Shrivastava, Sonpar, and Pazzaglia (2009) Charles Perrow
Reconciliation can lead to better application: A rejoinder to Perrow Samir Shrivastava, Karan Sonpar and Federica Pazzaglia
volume 62, number 10, October 2009
CONTENTS
Top management credibility and employee cynicism: A comprehensive model Tae-Yeol Kim, Thomas S. Bateman, James Gilbreath and Lynne M. Andersson
Is work-family balance more than conflict and enrichment? Dawn S. Carlson, Joseph G. Grzywacz and Suzanne Zivnuska
How other people shape our careers: a typology drawn from career narratives Sara Bosley, John Arnold and Laurie Cohen
New human resource management practices in knowledge-intensive business services firms: The case of outsourcing with staff transfer Damian Grimshaw and Marcela Miozzo
Enterprise contested: Betwixt and between the discourses of career and enterprise in a UK bank Darren J. McCabe
Also in press ...
Multiple Organizational Identities and Legitimacy: The Rhetoric of Police Websites John A.A. Sillince and Andrew D. Brown
Strategic ambiguity as a rhetorical resource for enabling multiple interests Duncan Shaw, Paula Jarzabkowski and John A. A. Sillince
The impact of structural empowerment on individual well-being and performance: Taking agent preferences, self-efficacy and operational constraints into account Peter Bamberger and Michal Biron
Self-confessed troublemakers: An interactionist view of deviance in during organisational change Melanie Bryant and Vaughan Higgins
Person-career fit and employee outcomes among research and development professionals Jongseok Cha, Youngbae Kim and Tae-Yeol Kim
Telemedicine: A practice-based study of technology Silvia Gherardi
Self-doubters, strugglers, story-tellers, surfers and others. Images of self-identities in organization studies Mats Alvesson
Transnational learning structures in multinational firms: organizational context and national embeddedness Olga Tregaskis, Tony Edwards, Paul Edwards, Anthony Ferner and Paul Marginson
"Invisible walls" and "silent hierarchies": A case study of power relations in an architecture firm Martin Kornberger, Andrew Brown, Stewart Clegg, Chris Carter
The strategic formation of project networks: A relational practice perspective Stephan Manning
Organizational social capital, structure and performance Rhys Andrews
Differing effects of coping strategies on mental health during prolonged unemployment: A longitudinal analysis Xiaowan Lin and Kwok Leung
A longitudinal analysis of the moderated effects of networking relationships on organizational performance in a Sub-Saharan African economy Moses Acquaah and Joseph Eshun
DManaging creatives: Paradoxical approaches to identity regulation Marianne Lewis, Manto Gotsi, Constantine Andriopoulos and Amy Ingram
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 62, number 6, June 2009
CONTENTS
Supervisory approaches and paradoxes in managing telecommuting implementation
Brenda A. Lautsch, Ellen Ernst Kossek, and Susan C. Eaton
Human Relations 2009; 62: 795-827
Struggling to organize across national borders: The case of global resource management in professional service firms
Mehdi Boussebaa
Human Relations 2009; 62: 829-50
The silent community: Organizing zones in the digital divide
Shiv Ganesh and Kirsty F. Barber
Human Relations 2009; 62: 851-74
The symbolic violence of leadership: A critical hermeneutic study of leadership and succession in a British organization in the post-Soviet context
Sarah K. Robinson and Ron Kerr
Human Relations 2009; 62: 875-903
Dialectics in a global software team: Negotiating tensions across time, space, and culture
Jennifer Gibbs
Human Relations 2009; 62: 905-35
volume 62, number 5, May 2009
CONTENTS
Life-quality decisions: Tension-management strategies used by individuals when making tradeoffs
Amy E. Mickel and Elise J. Dallimore
Human Relations 2009; 62: 627-68.
Psychological climate: A comparison of organizational and individual level referents
Boris B. Baltes, Ludmila S. Zhdanova and Christopher P. Parker
Human Relations 2009; 62: 669-700.
Human relations management, expectations and healthcare: A qualitative study
Paula J. Hyde, Claire Harris, Ruth Boaden and Penny Cortvriend
Human Relations 2009; 62: 701-25.
The 'boundaryless' career and career boundaries: Applying an institutionalist perspective to ICT workers in the context of Nigeria
Afam Ituma and Ruth Simpson
Human Relations 2009; 62: 727-61.
Gay men at work: (Re)constructing the self as professional
Nick Rumens and Deborah Kerfoot
Human Relations 2009; 62: 763-86.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier, and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Human Relations 2009; 62: 787-9
volume 62, number 4, April 2009
CONTENTS
Developing international organizational change theory using cases from China
Paul S. Hempel and Maris G. Martinsons
Human Relations 2009; 62: 459-499.
Constrained choices in alliance formations: Cupids and organizational marriages
Kimberlie J. Stephens, Janet Fulk, and Peter R. Monge
Human Relations 2009; 62: 501-536.
Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies
André Spicer, Mats Alvesson, and Dan Kärreman
Human Relations 2009; 62: 537-560.
Managing difference in feminized work: Men, otherness and social practice
Alison Pullen and Ruth Simpson
Human Relations 2009; 62: 561-587.
Organizational commitment and the well-being of temporary agency workers: A longitudinal study
Nathalie Galais and Klaus Moser
Human Relations 2009; 62: 589-620.
Prize award for the best Human Relations article in volume 61 (2008)
Human Relations 2009; 62: 621.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier, and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Human Relations 2009; 62: 623-624.
volume 62, number 3, March 2009
Special Issue: Constructing identity in organisations
Guest Editors: Tom Keenoy, Sierk Ybema, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, Cliff Oswick and Ida Sabelis
CONTENTS
Articulating identities
Sierk Ybema, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, and Ida Sabelis
Human Relations 2009; 62: 299-322.
Working identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity
Caroline A. Clarke, Andrew D. Brown, and Veronica Hope Hailey
Human Relations 2009; 62: 323-352.
Beyond dis-identification: A discursive approach to self-alienation in contemporary organizations
Jana Costas and Peter Fleming
Human Relations 2009; 62: 353-378.
Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor identity work
Simon Down and James Reveley
Human Relations 2009; 62: 379-401.
Muslim businesswomen doing boundary work: The negotiation of Islam, gender and ethnicity within entrepreneurial contexts
Caroline Essers and Yvonne Benschop
Human Relations 2009; 62: 403-423.
Narrative, life story and manager identity: A case study in autobiographical identity work
Tony J. Watson
Human Relations 2009; 62: 425-452.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier, and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Human Relations 2009; 62: 453-454.
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, Noelle Aarts, Rene Bouwen, and Cees van Woerkum
Human Relations 2009; 62: 155-193.
Leisure as a coping resource: A test of the job demand-control-support model
Allan D. Joudrey and Jean E. Wallace
Human Relations 2009; 62: 195-217.
Careers and identity in flexible working: Do flexible identities fare better?
Gudela Grote and Sabine Raeder
Human Relations 2009; 62: 219-244.
`It's a guesthouse not a brothel': Policing sex in the home-workplace
MariaLaura Di Domenico and Peter Fleming
Human Relations 2009; 62: 245-269.
The construct validity of vigor and its antecedents: A qualitative study
Ofira Shraga and Arie Shirom
Human Relations 2009; 62: 271-291.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier, and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Human Relations 2009; 62: 293-294.
volume 62, number 1, January 2009
CONTENTS
Erratum Human Relations 2009; 62: 4.
Preserving masculinity in service work: An exploration of the underreporting of customer anti-social behaviour
Victoria Bishop, Catherine M. Cassell, and Helge Hoel
Human Relations 2009; 62: 5-25.
The emotional implications of organizational politics: A process model
Christopher C. Rosen, Kenneth J. Harris, and K. Michele Kacmar
Human Relations 2009; 62: 27-57.
`I'm tired': Differential effects of physical and emotional fatigue on workload management strategies
Christopher M. Barnes and Linn Van Dyne
Human Relations 2009; 62: 59-92.
`We're not banks': Exploring self-discipline, subjectivity and co-operative work
Anita Mangan
Human Relations 2009; 62: 93-117.
Religious dimensions and work obligation: A country institutional profile model
K. Praveen Parboteeah, Martin Hoegl, and John Cullen
Human Relations 2009; 62: 119-148.
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier, and Sukanya Sen Gupta
Human Relations 2009; 62: 149-150.
Contact
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