Human Relations launches publication before print

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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.

We've added more information to help you ensure that your submission meets our current formatting requirements and guide you through using our online submission system.

Please email us with any comments or queries you have about the guidance.

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

Human Relations bids a fond farewell to Daniel G. Gallagher at the end of December. Dan has served the journal as an admirable Associate Editor between January 2007 and December 2009.

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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Top of the pops!

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Turnaround time

The average time from submission of an article to receiving a first decision is currently under 10 weeks.

Papers in press

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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