Paul Edwards appointed as next Editor-in-Chief
We are delighted to announce that Paul Edwards will be the next Editor-in-Chief of Human Relations, starting in January 2012 after Stephen Deery's six year term as EIC finishes at the end of this year.
Paul will be representing Human Relations at a 'Meet the Editors' session at EGOS on Thursday 7th July between 17:30–18:30 p.m., venue: H-Aulan. He will also be at the ASA (see below).
Paul is Professor of Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School. He was formerly at Warwick University where he directed the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He edited Work, Employment and Society for three years, and is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Research. His publications include (with Judy Wajcman) The Politics of Working Life (OUP, 2005). He edited Industrial Relations (1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006). His research interests include 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.
The Human Relations impact factor rises to 1.701!
Our Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) 2010 2-year impact factor has risen to 1.701 from 1.637 in 2009. The 2010 5-year impact factor has risen to 2.595 from 2.034 in 2009. We are very grateful to our authors, reviewers and readers in helping us to achieve these results.
Journal performance for 2010
466 original submissions received.
8% of submission accepted.
Less than 11 weeks mean time from submission to decision after peer review.
Human Relations Paper of the Year 2010 - and the winner is...
We are delighted to announce that the award for the Paper of the Year from the 63rd (2010) volume of Human Relations has been given to:
How passive 'face time' affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference
Kimberly D Elsbach, Dan M Cable, and Jeffrey W Sherman
Human Relations 2010, 63, 735–760
The Human Relations Paper of the Year Award is given to the paper that the Editorial Team considers best encapsulates broad readership appeal, sound methods, and whose theory advances our understanding of human relations at work. The authors will each receive vouchers worth £100 to spend on SAGE books or journals and a free subscription to Human Relations for 12 months.
Click here to see other Paper of the Year Award Winners
This month's FREE ACCESS article
Social distance as a moderator of the effects of transformational leadership: Both neutralizer and enhancer
Michael S Cole, Heike Bruch and Boas Shamir
Human Relations 2009; 62 (11): 1697–1733
This article will be FREE to access until 11 July 2011. The Human Relations homepage features a different FREE ACCESS article every four weeks.
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Have you listened to our podcasts?
We have published two more free access podcasts this year:
In our second podcast to date, Zella King (University of Reading, UK) takes an interesting and engaging look at contested terrain in careers, using a psychological contract model. The podcast complements Zella King and Kerr Inkson's paper in this month's special issue.
Careers podcast - free access
In our most recent podcast, special issue guest editors Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier and Sukanya Sengupta discuss their special issue, published in Human Relations in April 2011, on broadening the horizons of international HRM.
International HRM podcast - free access
Did you listen to our first podcast? It was downloaded over 2288 times in its first year! Don't miss out on Associate Editor Gail Fairhurst leading an insightful discussion with Bob Liden and John Antonakis, guest editors of our November 2009 special issue on ‘The context of leadership’.
Leadership podcast - free access.
Calls for papers for Special Issues
Organisational justice and behavioural ethics: New perspectives on workplace fairness
Guest editors:Jonathan Crawshaw (Aston Business School, Aston University, UK)
Russell Cropanzano (Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, US)
Chris Bell (Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada)
Thierry Nadisic (EMLYON Business School, France)
View full details about this call for papers
The deadline for submission is 31 January 2012; articles should not be submitted before Tuesday 03 January 2012.
The special issue is intended for publication in the second half of 2013 or early 2014.
New Editorial Board members
We are very happy to welcome these new members to our Editorial Board:David C Baldridge (Oregan State University, USA) Nathan Bowling (Wright State University, USA) Ian Colville (University of Bath, UK) Evangelia Demerouti (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Joseph Grzywacz (Wake Forest University, USA) Loizos Heracleous (Warwick Business School, UK) Guowei Jian (Cleveland State University, USA) Michael W Kramer (University of Oklahoma, USA) Susan Lambert (University of Chicago, USA) Brenda Lautsch (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jaesub Lee (University of Houston, Texas, USA) Fred Walumbwa (Arizona State University, USA)
Our great thanks go to...
...the following people who retired from our Board recently - they have made a wonderful contribution to the journal:Neil Anderson (University of Amsterdam Business School. The Netherlands) Frank J Barrett (Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA) Arthur P Brief (University of Utah, USA) Stewart Clegg (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Ann L Cunliffe (University of New Mexico, USA) Vanessa Druskat (University of New Hampshire, USA) Jiing-Lih Farh (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Kim Hoque (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Anand Narasimhan (IMD International, Lausanne, Switzerland) Janet Near (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Sharon Parker (University of Western Australia) Jone Pearce (University of California, Irvine, USA) Anat Rafaeli (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) André Spicer (University of Warwick, UK) Mark Stein (University of Leicester, UK) Andrew Sturdy (University of Bristol, UK) Sarah Tracy (Arizona State University, USA)
View all members of the Human Relations Editorial Board
Congratulations to Linda Putnam!
Former Human Relations Associate Editor Linda Putnam recently received the Academy of Management's 2011 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her contribution to the profession. Well done Linda!
Come and meet us at conferences!
27th EGOS Colloquium, 6–9 July 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden
Paul Edwards, Associate Editor and future Editor-in-Chief, will be representing Human Relations at a 'Meet the Editors' session at EGOS.
Academy of Management (AoM)
West meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, and Transcending
12–16 August 2011, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Please drop by the SAGE stand between Saturday 13 and Monday 15 August, for a free copy of Human Relations, 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, and submission and peer review procedures. If you would like specific advice about the suitability of a paper for submission to the Journal or to discuss any other journal matter, please email us to make an appointment to meet a member of the Editorial Team.
Stephen Deery, Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM and organizational performance.
Paul Edwards, Associate Editor and future Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions.
Sam Aryee, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions of cross-cultural research in the areas of strategic human resource management, employee-organization 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.
Gail Fairhurst, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss possible submissions about organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.
Party time!! We will be hosting the Human Relations Reviewers' Reception on the evening of Saturday 13 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 2011 Reviewer of the Year Award - are you in with a chance??!27th EGOS Colloquium, 6–9 July 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden
Paul Edwards, Associate Editor and future Editor-in-Chief, will be representing Human Relations at a 'Meet the Editors' session at EGOS, Thursday 7th July, 17:30–18:30 p.m., venue: H-Aulan.
American Sociology Association (ASA) Social conflict: Multiple dimensions and arenas
13–16 August 2011, Chicago, USA
Paul Edwards will also be representing Human Relations at the ASA. Please email us if you would like to make an appointment to meet Paul to discuss a possible future submission, or any other journal matter.
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volume 64, number 8, August 2011
CONTENTS
Embracing or embattled by converged mobile devices? Users' experiences with a contemporary connectivity technology
Sharon F Matusik and Amy E Mickel
Human Relations 2011; 64(8)
First published online before print May 11, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0018726711405552
Social face concerns and conflict avoidance of Chinese employees with their Western and Chinese managers
Ann Chunyan Peng and Dean Tjosvold
Human Relations 2011; 64(8)
First published online before print March 11, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0018726711400927
Helping and harming others in the workplace: The roles of personal values and abusive supervision
Ping Shao, Christian J Resick and Michael B Hargis
Human Relations 2011; 64(8)
First published online before print March 11, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0018726711399940
Is the merger necessary? The interactive effect of perceived necessity and sense of continuity on post-merger identification
Steffen R Giessner
Human Relations 2011; 64(8)
Sexual orientation discrimination: Exploring the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees in Turkey
Mustafa Bilgehan Öztürk
Human Relations 2011; 64(8)
First published online before print March 8, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0018726710396249
volume 64, number 9, September 2011
CONTENTS
Themed content on organizational discourse
Edited by Gail T Fairhurst and Karen Lee Ashcraft
Decolonializing discourse: Critical reflections on organizational discourse analysis
Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
What's cooking in organizational discourse studies? A response to Alvesson and Kärreman
Dennis Mumby
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
Discourse studies in the 21st century: A response to Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman's 'Decolonializing discourse'
Rick Iedema
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
Discourse(s), social construction and language practices. In conversation with Alvesson and Kärreman
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
Organizational discourse analysis—well done or too rare? A reply to our critics
Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
Ethnic minority professionals' experiences with subtle discrimination in the workplace
Koen Van Laer and Maddy Janssens
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
Mapping out the field of equality and diversity: Rise of individualism and voluntarism
Mustafa Özbilgin and Ahu Tatli
Human Relations 2011; 64(9)
volume 64, number 10, October 2011
CONTENTS
Team design and stress: A multilevel analysis
Kevin S Cruz and Frits K Pil
Human Relations 2011; 64(10)
Beneath the glass ceiling: Explaining gendered role segmentation in call centres
Dora Scholarios and Phil Taylor
Human Relations 2011; 64(10)
When do interprofessional teams succeed? Investigating the moderating roles of team and professional identity in interprofessional effectiveness
Rebecca J Mitchell, Vicki Parker and Michelle Giles
Human Relations 2011; 64(10)
Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries
Lia Bryant and Katrina Jaworski
Human Relations 2011; 64(10)
The emotional labour process: An essay on the economy of feelings
Steve Vincent
Human Relations 2011; 64(10)
Contact
Please send comments or queries about this newsletter, or any aspect of the Journal, to Claire Castle, Managing Editor