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Sam joins the Team

We are delighted that Professor Samual Aryee has agreed to join the Human Relations Editorial Team

Sam is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Aston Business School. He obtained his PhD in organisational sociology from McMaster University. Prior to joining ABS in September 2005, he held faculty positions at the National University of Singapore and Hong Kong Baptist University. He is primarily interested in cross-cultural research in the areas of strategic human resource management, employee-organisation relationship, organisational justice, power and politics in organisations, counterproductive workplace behaviours and work-family interface. His findings in these areas have been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and sits on the editorial board of Journal of Organizational Behavior. He also reviews (on an ad hoc basis) for Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of World Business.

Calls for papers

We are currently inviting submissions for a special issues on:

Work-life initiatives and organizational change

Guest editors: Ellen Ernst Kossek (Michigan State University, USA ), Leslie B. Hammer (Portland State University, USA), Suzan Lewis (Middlesex University, UK)

Click here to see the full call for papers, and guidelines for submitting.

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication in mid 2009.

Managing in the creative industries: Managing the motley crew

Guest editors: Barbara Townley, Nic Beech, Alan McKinlay (all at the University of St Andrews)

Click here to see the full call for papers, and guidelines for submitting.

The deadline for submissions is 29 February 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication in mid 2009.

Meet us at the Academy of Management conference, Philadelphia, USA.

Come along to our stand in the exhibitors' hall, where we will be celebrating our 60th birthday. Pick up a free copy of a recent issue of the journal, and a facsimile copy of the very first issue from 1947. For badge enthusiasts, we have a special, glittery badge this year (see below).

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 you may like to visit the stand when the appropriate editor is available:

Stephen Deery will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM, organizational performance, and trade unions on Sunday 5th August, 3.15pm-5pm.

Rob Briner will be available to discuss papers which deal with well-being at work, the concept of stress, emotions and moods on Sunday 5th August, 1pm-2pm , and on Tuesday 7th August, 3.15pm-4.15pm .

Paul Edwards will be available to discuss papers which deal with employment relations and new forms of work organization on Monday 6th August, 1.45pm-2.45pm, and on Tuesday 7th August, 11am to 12 noon.

Gail Fairhurst will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes on Sunday 5th August 11am-12 noon, and again at 3.15pm-4.15pm.

Dan Gallagher will be available to discuss papers in the field of impasse resolution procedures, negotiations, organizational and union commitment, part-time employment, and contingent and non-standard employment arrangementson Sunday 5th August, 11am-12 noon, and on Monday 6th August, 11am to 12 noon.

More highlights from the archive

Highlights from the archive
As part of our anniversary celebrations, we have been making a selection of highlights from the Human Relations archives freely available. The second group are listed below, but keep checking our homepage for more classics you may like to revisit ....

The dual career family: A variant pattern and social change
Rhona Rapoport and Robert N. Rapoport

An experiment in autonomous working in an American underground coal mine
Eric L Trist, Gerald I Susman and Grant R Brown

The intentional distortion of information in organizational communication: A laboratory and field investigation
Charles A O'Reilly III

Network analysis in organizational settings
Noel Tichy and Charles Fombrun

Strategy and the tactics of mediation
Deborah M Kolb

When cultures collide: The anatomy of a merger
Anthony F Buono and James L Bowditch III

The strategic management of corporate change
Dexter Dunphy and Doug Stace

Emotion in the workplace: A reappraisal
Blake E Ashforth and Ronald H Humphrey

At the critical moment: Conditions and prospects for critical management studies Valerie Fournier and Chris Grey

Emotions and leadership: The role of emotional intelligence
Jennifer M. George

New improved turnaround times

Our average time from submission of a paper to the decision letter being dispatched to authors is now just below three months ... and we expect to see this decrease even more in the near future.

Human Relations awarded highest ABS ranking

The Association of Business Schools has awarded Human Relations the highest score of 4 in its Academic Journal Quality Guide

Kurt Lewin and Goodwin Watson 60 years on

Click here for an article from our March issue about the FBI/ CIA surveillance operation on Goodwin Watson and one of the founders of Human Relations, Kurt Lewin:

The Kurt Lewin-Goodwin Watson FBI/CIA files: A 60th anniversary there-and-then of the here-and-now
Bill Cooke

Kurt Lewin