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Personal and organizational knowledge transfer: Implications for worklife engagement
Michael P. Leiter, Arla L. Day, Phyllis Harvie and Krystelle Shaughnessy

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Human Relations impact factor rises to 1.103

We are pleased to report that our Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI) impact factor for 2007 showed a significant increase to 1.103. We are now 38/81 in the Management rankings and 8/57 in the Multidisciplinary Social Sciences category. A huge thanks to all our authors, reviewers and readers for helping us to achieve this excellent result.

Come and say hello to us at our stand at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, August 2008

Please drop by our stand (#203, near to the entrance inside the main exhibition hall) between Sunday 10 and Tuesday 12 August, for a free issue of the journal, information on current calls for papers, and a Human Relations badge in this season's colour. 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 to the journal, you may like to visit the stand when the appropriate editor is available - please see below for details of times and dates:

Stephen Deery, Editor-in-Chief, will be available to discuss possible submissions in the field of HRM and organizational performance.
Sunday 10 August, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.
Monday 11 August 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Karen Lee Ashcraft joins the Editorial Team as an Associate Editor in August and will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, gender relations, alternative forms of organizing, ethnography, power and culture.
Sunday 10 August, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday 12 August 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Gail Fairhurst, Associate Editor, will be available to discuss papers in the field of organizational communication, leadership, and organizational discourse processes.
Sunday 10 August, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Dan Gallagher, Associate Editor, 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 arrangements.
Sunday 10 August, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Monday 11 August 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.

Claire Castle, Managing Editor, and Neil Walshe, Editorial Assistant, will be happy to answer general queries and receive your comments about the journal - and will be on the stand throughout the conference.

We also host a reception at this conference, during the evening of Sunday 10 August, to thank our reviewers, authors and other friends for their contribution to the journal.

Human Relations gets top rating in ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide 2008

Human Relations was awarded 4 stars - the highest rating - in the UK Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide 2008, which provides a guide to the range, subject matter and relative quality of journals in which business, management and economics academics might wish to publish empirical and theoretical results of research.

Human Relations Best Paper of 2007

The Editorial Team have decided to award the prize for the best paper of the 60th volume to:

Women's absenteeism in the popular press: Evidence for a gender-specific absence culture
Eric Patton and Gary Johns

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