Human Relations impact factor now 1.637!

We are pleased to reveal that our Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) JCR impact factor is 1.637 for 2009. We are now 38/112 in the Management rankings and 7/68 in the Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary category.

We are very grateful to our authors, reviewers and readers in helping us to achieve these results.

Professor Terry Beehr joins the Editorial Team

We are delighted to welcome Professor Terry Beehr to the team as our newest Associate Editor.

Terry is Director of Industrial/Organizational Program at Central Michigan University, USA. He has had long term interest in several research topics, including job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership. He currently is involved in projects on retirement, job stress, career movement, and job satisfaction. One of Terry's specific current interests in the occupational stress area is the nature and effects of social support for the stressed employee. He conducts research primarily in areas often characterised as the social psychology of organizations, including leadership, groups, motivation, attitudes, health, careers, culture, life decisions, and organizational and individual effectiveness. Two of his most active long-term research interests are older employees' decisions to retire and occupational stress.

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Congratulations to Gail Fairhurst on becoming an ICA Fellow!

Warm congratulations to our Associate Editor Professor Gail T Fairhurst, who has been elected to become an ICA Fellow.

Fellow status in the International Communication Association is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. The primary consideration for nomination to Fellow status is a documented record of scholarly achievement. Secondary consideration is given to such criteria as service to the International Communication Association and socially or professionally significant service to other publics such as business, government, education, etc.

Gail is a professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Her research and writing interests are in organizational communication and discourse as well as more social constructionist views of leadership. Across a variety of projects, she is currently exploring leaders' sensemaking in creativity-based organizations undergoing major organizational changes; interim leadership; the collaborative mindset of leaders unaccustomed to sharing control; and the role of a more discursive, social and cultural view of leadership compared to mainstream leadership psychology.

Gail has published over 60 articles in communication and management journals, including Communication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly, Human Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science, as well as several book chapters, most recently in The SAGE Handbook of Leadership and The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse. She is the author of Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology (SAGE, 2007) and The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 1996). Both received "Book of the Year" awards from the National Communication Association's Organizational Communication Division. She has also received "Article of the Year" awards from both the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. She has a forthcoming book, The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, in press) and is a Fulbright Scholar.

In addition to her university research and teaching, Gail has been a process consultant, trainer, and executive coach for Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Merrill Lynch, McDonald’s, Boeing, State Farm Insurance, General Electric, and the U.S. Air Force, among others. She was also head of the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati for five years and has held visiting appointments at Procter & Gamble, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and Lund University (Sweden).

A fond farewell to Vandana Nath

Human Relations is sad to have to say goodbye to Vandana Nath, who has been our Editorial Assistant since February 2009 and leaves us at the end of June 2010. Vandana has been working towards her PhD at King's College London, exploring employee turnover in offshored Indian call centres, and leaves the journal to further her academic career. Vandana has been a fantastic colleague to work with - her hard work, superb efficiency and good humour will be greatly missed by the team. We all wish her the very best for the future and in her academic career.

Calls for papers for Special Issues

The life of a happy worker: Examining short-term fluctuations in employee happiness and well-being

Guest editors: Despoina Xanthopoulou (University of Crete, Greece), Arnold B. Bakker (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Remus Ilies (Michigan State University, USA).

View full details about this call for papers
The deadline for submission is 31 December 2010 and this special issue is intended for publication in 2012.

Reinventing retirement: New pathways, new arrangements, new meanings

Guest editors: Mary Dean Lee (McGill, Canada), Leisa Sargent (Melbourne, Australia), Jelena Zikic (York University, Canada), Bill Martin (University of Queensland, Australia).

View full details about this call for papers
The deadline for submission is 31 January 2011 and this special issue is intended for publication early 2013.

Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)

2nd Bi-annual IWP Conference on Work, Wellbeing and Performance
29 June–1 July 2010, Sheffield, UK

Kevin Daniels, Associate Editor, will be representing Human Relations.

Please email us if you would like to make an appointment to meet Kevin to discuss a possible future submission, or any other journal matter.

Join us at the Academy of Management, Montreal, August 2010

Please drop by our stand (number 421) between Saturday 7 and Monday 09 August, for a free copy of 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 on the stand:

Stephen Deery, Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM and organizational performance.

Sam Aryee, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions of cross-cultural research in the areas of strategic human resource management, employee-organiszation relationship, organizational justice, power and politics in organizations, counterproductive workplace behaviours and work-family interface.

Karen Lee Ashcraft, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication and discourse, alternative organizational forms, organizational and occupational identity, critical and feminist approaches, gender and race relations, and qualitative methods, especially ethnography.

Terry Beehr, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions about job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership.

Paul Edwards, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions on employment relations at workplace level and new forms of work organization, the personnel policies and practices of multinational companies and employment relations in small firms.

Gail Fairhurst, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions about organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.

Claire Castle, Managing Editor, and Amanda Jones, Editorial Assistant, will be on the stand throughout the conference and be happy to answer general queries and receive your comments, feedback and suggestions about the journal.

We will be hosting the Human Relations Reviewers' Reception on the evening of Saturday 7 August, to thank our reviewers, authors and other friends of the journal for their contributions to our success. We will also be announcing the winner of our Reviewer of the Year Award 2010 - could it be you?

Podcast downloads

Between November 2009 and April 2010, there were 1,448 downloads of our first ever podcast, in which Human Relations Associate Editor Gail Fairhurst leads an insightful discussion with Bob Liden and John Antonakis, guest editors of our November 2009 special issue on ‘The context of leadership’.

Click here for free access to the podcast

Papers in press

Here are some forthcoming Human Relations articles to look out for.
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volume 63, number 7, July 2010

CONTENTS

Does social identity theory underlie relational demography? A test of the moderating effects of uncertainty reduction and status enhancement on similarity effects
Caren B Goldberg, Christine Riordan and Bryan S Schaffer
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 903–926
Human Relations first published on April 14, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709347158

The battered apple: An application of stressor-emotion-control/support theory to teachers’ experience of violence and bullying
Suzy Fox and Lamont E Stallworth
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 927–954
Human Relations first published on March 2, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709349518

Putting work and family experiences in context: Differences by family life stage
Jenet Jacob Erickson, Guiseppe Martinengo and E Jeffrey Hill
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 955–979
Human Relations first published on April 9, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709353138

The joint effects of personality and job scope on in-role performance, citizenship behaviors, and creativity
Usman Raja and Gary Johns
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 981–1005
Human Relations first published on April 9, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709349863

Effects of materialism on work-related personal well-being
John R Deckop, Carole L Jurkiewicz and Robert A Giacalone
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 1007–1030
Human Relations first published on April 14, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709353953

Evasion of boredom: An unexpected spur to leadership?
Brigid J Carroll, Polly Parker and Kerr Inkson
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 1031–1049
Human Relations first published on March 8, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709349864

The right tools for the job: Constructing gender meanings and identities in the male-dominated building trades
Amy M Denissen
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 1051–1069
Human Relations first published on March 10, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709349922

When whistle-blowing works: The Norwegian case
Marit Skivenes and Sissel C Trygstad
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 1071–1097
Human Relations first published on April 28, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709353954

NOTICE

Award for Human Relations Paper of the Year 2009
Human Relations 2010; 63(7): 1099

volume 63, number 8, August 2010

CONTENTS

Transformational leadership and follower creativity: The moderating effects of identification with leader and organizational climate
Peng Wang and Joseph C Rode
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on May 6, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709354132

How satisfied are they and why? A study of job satisfaction, job characteristics, gender and temporary agency workers in Australia
Lydia Aletraris
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709354131

Have careers become boundaryless?
Ricardo A Rodrigues and David Guest
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on April 30, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709354344

From virtual teams to virtuality in teams
Keith R Dixon and Niki Panteli
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on April 14, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709354784

Boundary object use in cross-cultural software development teams
Mike Barrett and Eivor Oborn
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709355657

The impact of organizational change on steelworkers in craft and production occupational groups
Nick Bacon, Paul Blyton and Ali Dastmalchian
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709356599

The calculation of business, or the business of calculation? Accounting as organizing through everyday communication
Bertrand Fauré, Boris HJM Brummans, Hélène Giroux and James R Taylor
Human Relations 2010; 63(8)
Human Relations first published on May 6, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709355658

volume 63, number 9, September 2010

SPECIAL THEMED CONTENT

Private equity buyouts, work and employment relations
Guest Editors: Mike Wright and Geoffrey Wood

Private equity and human resource management: An emerging agenda
Geoffrey Wood and Mike Wright
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on February 12, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709353638

Private equity and human resource management: “Barbarians at the gate! HR’s wake up call?”
Paul Boselie and Bas Koene
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on February 12, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709349519

Private equity, the minimalist organization and the quality of employment relations
Suzana B Rodrigues and John Child
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on February 12, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709353637

Assessing the impact of private equity on industrial relations in Europe
Nick Bacon, Mike Wright, Louise Scholes and Miguel Meuleman
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on February 12, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709350087

REGULAR ARTICLES

The moderating role of optimism on politics-outcomes relationships: A test of competing perspectives
Wayne A Hochwarter and Kenneth R Thompson
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709357250

The moderating effects of polychronicity and achievement striving on the relationship between task variety and organization-based self-esteem of mid-level managers in China
Chun Hui, Cynthia Lee and Xiongying Niu
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)

‘I feel like a foreign agent’: NGOs and corporate social responsibility interventions into Third World child labor
Farzad Rafi Khan, Robert Westwood, and David M Boje
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709359330

Secrets of the beehive: Performance management in university research organizations
Célio AA Sousa, Willem F de Nijs and Paul HJ Hendriks
Human Relations 2010; 63(9)
Human Relations first published on May 6, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709357083

volume 63, number 10, October 2010

Are all good soldier behaviors the same? Supporting multidimensionality of organizational citizenship behaviors based on rewards and roles
Sophia V Marinova, Henry Moon and Linn Van Dyne
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709359432

High performance work systems and performance: The role of adaptive capability
Li-Qun Wei and Chung-Ming Lau
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726709359720

Dyadic ties among employees: Empirical analysis of creative performance and efficiency
Alexander Fliaster and Florian Schloderer
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)

Workplace friendships between men: Gay men’s perspectives and experiences
Nick Rumens
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726710361987

Managing outsourcing to develop business: Goal interdependence for sharing effective business practices in China
Alfred Wong, Dean Tjosvold and Nancy Yi-Feng Chen
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726710362124

The importance of policy in perceptions of organizational justice
Graham Brown, Brian Bemmels and Laurie J Barclay
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)
Human Relations first published on May 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0018726710362273

Mergers, jobs and wages in the United States telecommunications industry
Sumit Majumdar, Rabih Moussawi and Ulku Yaylacicegi
Human Relations 2010; 63(10)