January 2008
PDF downloads soar
During 2007, Human Relations articles were downloaded more than those of any other SAGE management and organisation journal. Over a quarter of a million full text PDFs of our articles were downloaded.
August 2007
New, improved turnaround times
The average time from submission to first decision is now 2.8 months.
July 2007
Meet us at the Academy of Management conference, Philadelphia, USA.
Visit the Human Relations stand in the exhibition hall, where we shall be celebrating our 60th birthday.
Click here to see when each editor will be available, and for more information about our conference activities.
June 2007
Sam joins the Team
Professor Samuel Aryee has joined the Editorial Team. Sam is based at Aston Business School, UK, and he became an Associate Editor on May 1st 2007.
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February 2007
Emerald Management Reviews citation of excellence
The following article has been included in Emerald Management Reviews’ ‘top 50’ for 2006, and awarded a citation of excellence:
Leader framing and follower sensemaking: response to downsizing in the brave new workplace
Bean, C.J. & Hamilton F.E
January 2007
Best paper 2006
The Editorial Team have elected the following paper the best of the 59th volume:
Toward the micro and macro-level consequences of interactional justice in cross-cultural joint ventures
Yadong Luo
December 2006
Dan joins the Team
We are pleased to welcome Dan Gallagher to the of Human Relations Team as an Associate Editor. Dan is based at James Madison University College of Business in Virginia, USA.
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November2006
Two new Board members and new roles for Barbara and Linda
We are delighted that Anand Narasimhan (Imperial College London) and Vanessa Druskat (University of New Hampshire) have agreed to join the Editorial Board. Barbara Townley and Linda Putnam have now completed their terms as Associate Editors, but both have agreed to continue their association with the journal as members of the Editorial Board.
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September 2006
More new Board members
We are delighted that Frank Barrett (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey), Kevin Barge (University of Georgia), Jacques Belanger (Universite Laval), Neil Conway (Birkbeck, University of London), Ann Cunliffe (University of New Mexico), Steve Frenkel (University of Sydney), Daniel G Gallagher(James Madison University), Richard Hackman (Harvard University), Kim Hoque (Nottingham University), and Graham Sewell (University of Melbourne and Imperial College, University of London) have agreed to join the Editorial Board.
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August 2006
Reviewer of the Year, 2006
This prize is announced each year at our Reviewers' Reception at the Academy of Management conference. This year in Atlanta, Stephen Deery announced that the Reviewer of the Year for 2006 is Andrew Brown. Over the past year, Andrew has provided numerous thorough and detailed reviews for the journal's editors. Professor Brown is based in the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.
June 2006
Gail Fairhurst joins Human Relations
Gail Fairhurst has been appointed as an Associate Editor of Human Relations. Gail is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests focus primarily upon organizational leadership and language analysis. She will join the Team in September 2006.
May 2006
Human Relations Editorial Board expansion
A host of distinguished academics have joined the Human Relations Editorial Board. New names include:
Karen Ashcraft (University of Utah) - Samuel Aryee (Aston Business School) - Lotte Bailyn (Sloan School of Management, MIT) - Rosemary Batt (Cornell University) - Arthur P Brief (Tulane University) - John L Cordery (University of Western Australia) - Rick Delbridge (Cardiff Business School) - Kevin Dooley (Arizona State University) -Michael Frese (University of Giessen) - Barry Gerhart (Vanderbilt University) - David Grant (University of Sydney) - Jeffrey Greenhaus (Drexel University) - Rick Iverson (Simon Fraser University) John Jermier (University of South Florida) - Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina) - Zella King (University of Reading) - Ellen Kossek (Michigan State University)- Robert C Liden (University of Illinois at Chicago) Elizabeth Maitland (University of New South Wales) - Sandra Robinson (University of British Columbia) - Vicki Smith (University of California, Davis) - Andrew Sturdy (University of Warwick) - Robyn Thomas (Cardiff Business
School) - Nick Turner (University of Manitoba) - William H Turnley (Kansas State University) - Linn Van Dyne (Michigan State University) - Barry Wilkinson (University of Bath).
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January 2006
Paul Edwards joins the team
Paul Edwards has joined Human Relations as an Associate Editor. Paul is Professor of Industrial Relations in the Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He edited Work, Employment and Society for three years, and during 2004-7 was a Senior Fellow of the UK’s Advanced Institute of Management Research. His publications include (with Judy Wajcman) The Politics of Working Life (OUP, 2005) and (with John Storey and Keith Sisson) Managers in the Making (Sage, 1997). He edited Industrial Relations (Blackwell, 1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006, OUP). His research interests include employment relations at workplace level and new forms of work organization, the personnel policies and practices of multinational companies, and employment relation in small firms
January 2006
New Editor-in-Chief for Human Relations
After five years, Paul Willman has completed his term as Editor-in-Chief. On January 1st 2006, he handed over to Stephen Deery, Professor of Human Resource Management at King’s College London.
read more in the Spring 2006 newsletter
October 2005
Reviewer of the Year, 2005
Anand Narasimhan has been awarded the prize for Reviewer of the Year 2005.
Anand is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School. When he is not writing detailed reviews for Human Relations, he works primarily in the field of the culture industries. He has recently edited a book entitled Change: How to adapt and transform the business for Format Publishing’s Decision-Makers series.
