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Listen to our first ever podcast!
Human Relations breaks new ground by creating our first ever podcast. Associate Editor Gail Fairhurst leads this insightful discussion along with Bob Liden and John Antonakis, the Guest Editors of our November 2009 special issue 'The context of leadership'.
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Have you read our revised submission guidance?
If you are about to submit an original or revised article to Human Relations, please take a moment to read through our revised guidelines on how to submit a paper.
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Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2009
This prize is awarded to the person who has made the most outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the number, quality and turnaround time of reviews completed during the previous 12 months.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Professor Steve Frenkel, at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
The prize includes a free subscription to Human Relations plus £150 of vouchers to spend on SAGE journals or books.
Call for papers for a Special Issue
Sensemaking, organising and storytelling
Guest editors: Ian Colville, Andrew D. Brown and Annie Pye.
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.
November's FREE ACCESS article
Into hot air: A critical perspective on Everest
Michael Elmes and Bob Frame
Human Relations. 2008; 61: 213-241
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New journal design for 2010
Look out for our fresh new look for articles, starting January 2010.
In 2009, our publisher SAGE underwent an extensive redesign process for all the journals it handles. The new design is the result of a comprehensive review process, with the aim of optimising journal text designs for the online environment. The new design for Human Relation was agreed in October and the new design will be present for volume 63, and for all subsequent Online First articles.
We hope you like it!
A fond farewell to Dan Gallagher
Dan is the CSX Corporation Professor of Management at James Madison University, USA. He earned his MA and PhD degrees at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois with concentrations in the areas of industrial psychology and economics. He has also been a member of the faculty at the University of Iowa, and Queen's University, Canada. His research career has focused upon a range of topics including: impasse resolution procedures, negotiations, organizational and union commitment, part-time employment, and most recently - the growth and implications of contingent and non-standard employment arrangements. He has more than 25 years of experience as an ad hoc referee and editorial board member for many top-tier OB, IR, HRM and management related journals.
The editorial team will miss working with Dan and wish him all the very best for the future.
Human Relations impact factor now 1.372
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 achieve these results.
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volume 62, number 12, December 2009
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award 2009 and thanks to our reviewers
Bringing avoidance and anxiety to the job: Attachment style and instrumental helping behavior among peers Dvora Geller and Peter Bamberger Human Relations first published on October 29, 2009 as DOI:10.1177/0018726709337524
Multiple organizational identities and legitimacy: The rhetoric of police websites John A.A. Sillince and Andrew D. Brown Human Relations first published on October 29, 2009 as DOI:10.1177/0018726709336626
Person-career fit and employee outcomes among research and development professionals Jongseok Cha, Youngbae Kim and Tae-Yeol Kim Human Relations first published on October 29, 2009 as DOI:10.1177/0018726709338638
'Girls' working together without 'teams': How to avoid the colonization of management language Mark Learmonth Human Relations first published on October 29, 2009 as DOI:10.1177/0018726709339097
Review article: Low-wage work in high-income countries: Labor-market institutions and business strategy in the US and Europe Eileen Appelbaum and John Schmitt Human Relations first published on October 29, 2009 as DOI:10.1177/0018726709349200
volume 63, number 1, January 2010
Special issue: Work-life initiatives and organizational change
Guest Editors: Ellen Ernst Kossek, Suzan Lewis and Leslie B. Hammer
CONTENTS
Work-life initiatives and organizational change: Overcoming mixed messages to move from the margin to the mainstream Ellen Ernst Kossek, Suzan Lewis and Leslie B. Hammer
Representations of work-life balance support Samula Mescher, Yvonne Benschop and Hans Doorewaard
Contributions of work-life and resilience initiatives to the individual/organization relationship Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
Technology-assisted supplemental work and work-to-family conflict: The role of instrumentality beliefs, organizational expectations and time management Grant H. Fenner and Robert W. Renn
Doing more with less? Flexible working practices and the intensification of work Clare Kelliher and Deirdre Anderson
Institutional explanations for managers' attitudes towards telehomeworking Pascale Peters and Stefan Heusinkveld
Moderators of the curvilinear relation between extent of telecommuting and job and life satisfaction: The role of performance outcome orientation and worker type Meghna Virick, Nancy DaSilva and Kristi Arrington
volume 63, number 2, February 2010
CONTENTS
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-doubters, strugglers, story-tellers, surfers and others. Images of self-identities in organization studies Mats Alvesson
Strategic ambiguity as a rhetorical resource for enabling multiple interests Paula Jarzabkowski, John A.A. Sillince, and Duncan Shaw Human Relations first published on September 16, 2009 as doi:10.1177/0018726709337040
Self-confessed troublemakers: An interactionist view of deviance in during organisational change Melanie Bryant and Vaughan Higgins Human Relations first published on September 16, 2009 as doi:10.1177/0018726709338637
Review article: Enhancing employability: Human, cultural, and social capital in an era of turbulent unpredictability Vicki Smith
volume 63, number 3, March 2010
Special Issue: New approaches to employee voice and participation in organisations
Guest Editors: John W. Budd, Paul J. Gollan and Adrian Wilkinson
CONTENTS
New approaches to employee voice and participation in organizations John W. Budd, Paul J. Gollan & Adrian Wilkinson
If you build a voice mechanism, will they come? Determinants of voicing interpersonal mistreatment at work Karen Harlos
The influence of union membership on workers' willingness to participate in joint consultation Christina Cregan and Michelle Brown
A study of the relationship between exit, voice, loyalty and neglect and commitment in India Kamel Mellahi, Pawan S. Budhwar,and Baibing Li
Employee voice and organizational performance: Team versus representative influence Jaewon Kim, John Paul MacDuffie and Frits K. Pil
Patterning employee voice in multinational companies Jonathan Lavelle, Patrick Gunnigle and Anthony McDonnell
Antecedents and outcomes of information disclosure to employees in the UK, 1990-2004: The role of employee voice Riccardo Peccei, Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel and Paul Willman
Tables of contents
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volume 62, number 11, November 2009
Special Issue: The context of leadership
Guest Editors: Robert C. Liden, John Anatonakis and Gail T. Fairhurst
CONTENTS
Considering context in psychological leadership research
Robert C. Liden and John Antonakis
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1587–1605
Considering context in discursive leadership research
Gail T. Fairhurst
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1607–1633
Understanding team-level career mentoring by leaders and its effects on individual team-source learning: The effects of intra-group processes
Ethlyn A. Williams, Terri A. Scandura, and Mark Gavin
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1635–1666
Towards a theory of being-centered leadership: Multiple levels of being as context for effective leadership
Louis Fry and Mark Kriger
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1667–1696
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
The institutionalization of distributed leadership: A 'Catch-22' in English public services
Graeme Currie, Andy Lockett, and Olga Suhomlinova
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1735–1761
The challenge of leading on unstable ground: Triggers that activate social identity faultlines
Donna Chrobot-Mason, Marian N. Ruderman, Todd J. Weber, and Chris Ernst
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1763–1794
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Sensemaking, organising and storytelling
Ian Colville, Andrew D. Brown, and Annie Pye
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1795–1797
FREE PODCAST: Context of leadership special issue
Gail T. Fairhurst, Robert C. Liden and John Anatonakis
Human Relations 2009; 62(11): 1587
volume 62, number 10, October 2009
CONTENTS
Top management credibility and employee cynicism: A comprehensive model
Tae-Yeol Kim, Thomas S. Bateman, Brad Gilbreath, and Lynne M. Andersson
Human Relations 2009; 62(10): 1435–1458
Is work—family balance more than conflict and enrichment?
Dawn S. Carlson, Joseph G. Grzywacz, and Suzanne Zivnuska
Human Relations 2009; 62(10): 1459–1486
How other people shape our careers: A typology drawn from career narratives
Sara L.C. Bosley, John Arnold, and Laurie Cohen
Human Relations 2009; 62(10): 1487–1520
New human resource management practices in knowledge-intensive business services firms: The case of outsourcing with staff transfer
Damian Grimshaw and Marcela Miozzo
Human Relations 2009; 62(10): 1521–1550
Enterprise contested: Betwixt and between the discourses of career and enterprise in a UK bank
Darren McCabe
Human Relations 2009; 62(10) 1551–1579
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Sensemaking, organising and storytelling
Ian Colville, Andrew D. Brown and Annie Pye
Human Relations 2009; 62(10): 1581–1583
volume 62, number 9, September 2009
Special Issue: The social construction of safety
Guest Editors: Nick Turner and Garry Gray
CONTENTS
Socially constructing safety
Nick Turner and Garry C. Gray
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1259–1266
If human errors are assumed as crimes in a safety culture: A lifeworld analysis of a rail crash
Nobuyuki Chikudate
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1267–1287
Reclaiming resilience and safety: Resilience activation in the critical period of crisis
Edward H. Powley
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1289–1326
Overcoming dysfunctional momentum: Organizational safety as a social achievement
Michelle A. Barton and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1327–1356
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
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1357–1390
What's needed is application, not reconciliation: A response to Shrivastava, Sonpar and Pazzaglia (2009)
Charles Perrow
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1391–1393
Reconciliation can lead to better application: A rejoinder to Perrow (2009)
Samir Shrivastava, Karan Sonpar and Federica Pazzaglia
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1395–1398
Leveraging functionality in safety routines: Examining the divergence of rules and performance
Hille C. Bruns
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1399–1426
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Sensemaking, organising and storytelling
Ian Colville, Andrew D. Brown and Annie Pye
Human Relations 2009; 62(9): 1427–1429
volume 62, number 8, August 2009
CONTENTS
Resisting resistance: Counter-resistance, consent and compliance in a consultancy firm
Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson
Human Relations 2009; 62(8): 1115–1144
When the good times are over: Professionals encountering new technology
Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Kajsa Lindberg, and Alexander Styhre
Human Relations 2009; 62(8): 1145–1170
Daily job search and psychological distress: Evidence from China
Zhaoli Song, Marilyn A. Uy, Shuhua Zhang, and Kan Shi
Human Relations 2009; 62(8): 1171–1197
Mind over body: Physical and psychotherapeutic discourses and the regulation of the older worker
Susan Ainsworth and Cynthia Hardy
Human Relations 2009; 62(8): 1199–1229
How to sell your soul and still get into Heaven: Steven Covey's epiphany-inducing technology of effective selfhood
John G. Cullen
Human Relations 2009; 62(8): 1231–1254
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
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 939–962
The organization of creativity in Japanese advertising production
Brian Moeran
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 963–985
Latent organizations in the film industry: Contracts, rewards and resources
Joris J. Ebbers and Nachoem M. Wijnberg
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 987–1009
The elephant in the room? Class and creative careers in British advertising agencies
Charlotte McLeod, Stephanie O'Donohoe, and Barbara Townley
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 1011–1039
Identity affirmation through 'signature style': A study of toy car designers
Kimberly D. Elsbach
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 1041–1072
Impact of dual executive leadership dynamics in creative organizations
Wendy Reid and Rekha Karambayya
Human Relations 2009; 62(7): 1073–1112
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