Kevin joins the Team
We are delighted that Professor Kevin Daniels has agreed to join the Human Relations Editorial Team
Kevin Daniels is Professor of Organisational Psychology at the Business School, Loughborough University. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and British Journal of Management and was previously an associate editor of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. His research interests are in the links between affective and cognitive processes, especially as they relate to job design, safety performance and occupational health. His research has been funded by bodies such as the UK Health and Safety Executive, Economic and Social Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He has published in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Organization Studies.
New role for Rob
After ten years as an Associate Editor, Professor Rob Briner has left the Editorial Team in order to take up a new position as Head of the School of Management and Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Fortunately for us, he has agreed to continue his association with the journal by joining the Editorial Board.
Editor in Chief, Stephen Deery said 'Rob has been an absolute stalwart of the Editorial Team. He has been a rigorous editor who has been able to handle papers over a broad range of topics. His contribution over the last ten years has been huge.'
Rob was one of the first editors to be appointed from outside of the Tavistock Institute, and since then he has handled, we estimate, over 600 manuscripts. In addition, he has represented the journal at countless conferences, and attended meetings unfailingly, often contributing great ideas. Reproducing the first ever issue of Human Relations this year, to celebrate its 60th anniversary, was just one such brainwave.
Rob in action
Calls for papers
We are currently inviting submissions for special issues on:
New approaches to employee voice and participation in organisations
Guest editors: John Budd (University of Minnesota), Paul J. Gollan (London School of Economics and Macquarie University), Adrian Wilkinson (Griffith University)
The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication in the second half of 2009.
Private equity buyouts, work and employment relations
Guest editors: Mike Wright (Nottingham University); Geoffrey Wood (University of Sheffield)
The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2008 and the special issue is intended for publication at the beginning of 2010.
To see all our special issue calls for papers, click here
New Editorial Board members
We are very happy to welcome the following to our Editorial Board: Jean Bartunek (Boston College), Emma Bell (Queen Mary, University of London), George Cheney (University of Utah), Gary Johns (Concordia University), MIchael O'Driscoll (University of Waikato), and Andre Spicer (University of Warwick). Click here to see the full Editorial Board
Armand Hatchuel, Larry Hirschhorn, Hari Tsoukas and Hamid Bouchikhi have now completed their terms on the Board. We are enormously grateful to them for all their efforts.
Human Relations Reviewer of the Year 2007
Nick Turner has been awarded the Reviewer of the Year prize for 2007. Nick is Head of Department at the Department of Business Administration, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. He has nevertheless still found time to complete numerous detailed reviews for us, all at lightening speed. Nick is also a member of our Editorial Board, and a guest editor of a forthcoming special issue on socially constructing safety, along with Garry Gray.
Nick: champion reviewer of 2007
Party in Phili
It was good to see so many of you at the Human Relations Reviewers' Reception at the Academy of Management conference in Philadelphia. Congratulations to the five guests who found silver tickets inside balloons, winning a lifetime's subscription to the journal.
In press
Here are some forthcoming Human Relations papers to look out for. To receive every table of contents, the moment it is published online, click here.
In December 2007 ...
Political skill and influence effectiveness: Testing portions of an expanded Ferris and Judge (1991) model Robert Kolodinsky, Darren Treadway and Gerald Ferris
When and why is small beautiful? The experience of work in the small firm Chin-Ju Tsai, Sukanya Sengupta and Paul Edwards
The object of knowledge: The role of objects in biomedical innovation Jacky Swan, Mike Bresnan, Sue Newell and Maxine Robertson
The transformational leader as pedagogue, physician, architect, commander, and saint: Five root metaphors in Jack Welch's letters to stockholders of General Electric Joel Amernic, Russell Craig and Dennis Tourish
60 years of Human Relations Ray Loveridge, Paul Willman and Stephen Deery
In January 2008 ...
The development of a process model of collective turnover Jean Bartunek, Zhi Huang and Ian Walsh
Subcultural dynamics in transformation: A multi-perspective study of healthcare professionals Philip I Morgan and Emmanuel Ogbonna
The volunteer stages and transitions model: Organizational socialization of volunteers Debbie Haski-Leventhal and David Bar-Gal
The language of teamwork: reproducing professional divisions in the operating theatre Rachael Finn
Post socialist segmented capitalism: The case of Hungary. Developing business systems theory Roderick Martin
PDF downloads soar
During 2007, Human Relations articles were downloaded more than those of any other SAGE management and organisation journal. In the last twelve months, over a quarter of a million full text PDFs of our articles have been downloaded.
Free access
All Human Relations articles from the last 60 years are available without charge during November. Simply click
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Tables of contents
Here are some recent tables of contents, just in case you missed them:
volume 60, number 10, October 2007
Special Issue: 'Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation'
GUEST EDITORS: ANNA SOULSBY AND ED CLARK
CONTENTS
Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to
organizational knowledge
Anna Soulsby and Ed Clark
Property rules: State fragmentation, industry heterogeneity and property
rights in the Russian oil industry, 1992 2006
Olga Suhomlinova
Persistent unemployment and passive policies: Politics and institutional
change in post-communist Poland
Dana L. Brown
Exploitation and exploration learning and the development of organizational
capabilities: A cross-case analysis of the Russian oil industry
Sarah E.A. Dixon, Klaus E. Meyer, and Marc Day
Overlapping effects: Path dependence and path generation in management and
organization in Russia
Gregory Schwartz and Leo McCann
Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia
Graham Hollinshead and Mairi Maclean
volume 60, number 9, September 2007
CONTENTS
The consequences of assistant roles in the public services: Degradation or
empowerment?
Stephen Bach, Ian Kessler, and Paul Heron
The transferability of management practices: Examining cross-national
differences in reward preferences
Flora F.T. Chiang and Thomas Birtch
Resistance leadership: The overlooked potential in critical organization
and leadership studies
Heather M. Zoller and Gail T. Fairhurst
Playing tick-box games: Interrelating defences in professional appraisal
Gerry McGivern and Ewan Ferlie
Oedipus Rex at Enron: Leadership, Oedipal struggles, and organizational
collapse
Mark Stein
volume 60, number 8, August 2007
CONTENTS
Less need to be there: Cross-level effects of work practices that support work-life flexibility and enhance group processes and group-level OCB
Linn Van Dyne, Ellen Kossek, and Sharon Lobel
The relationship between trust, attachment, and antisocial work behaviors
Stefan Thau, Craig Crossley, Rebecca J. Bennett, and Sabine Sczesny
Participants' accounts of a stress management intervention
Raymond Randall, Tom Cox, and Amanda Griffiths
Making career choice: A study of Chinese managers
Amy Lai Yu Wong
Lived experiences of offshoring: An examination of UK and Indian financial service employees' accounts of themselves and one another
Laurie Cohen and Amal El-Sawad
Contact
Please send comments or queries about this newsletter, or any aspect of the journal, to Alice Gilbertson, Managing Editor