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June 2010

Gail Fairhurst becomes an ICA Fellow!

Warm congratulations to our Associate Editor Professor Gail T Fairhurst , who has been elected to become an ICA Fellow.

Fellow status in the International Communication Association is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. The primary consideration for nomination to Fellow status is a documented record of scholarly achievement. Secondary consideration is given to such criteria as service to the International Communication Association and socially or professionally significant service to other publics such as business, government, education, etc.

Gail is a professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Her research and writing interests are in organizational communication and discourse as well as more social constructionist views of leadership. Across a variety of projects, she is currently exploring leaders' sensemaking in creativity-based organizations undergoing major organizational changes; interim leadership; the collaborative mindset of leaders unaccustomed to sharing control; and the role of a more discursive, social and cultural view of leadership compared to mainstream leadership psychology.

Gail has published over 60 articles in communication and management journals, including Communication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly, Human Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization Science, as well as several book chapters, most recently in The SAGE Handbook of Leadership and The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse. She is the author of Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology (SAGE, 2007) and The Art of Framing: Managing the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 1996). Both received "Book of the Year" awards from the National Communication Association's Organizational Communication Division. She has also received "Article of the Year" awards from both the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. She has a forthcoming book, The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, in press) and is a Fulbright Scholar.

In addition to her university research and teaching, Gail has been a process consultant, trainer, and executive coach for Procter & Gamble, Kroger, Merrill Lynch, McDonald’s, Boeing, State Farm Insurance, General Electric, and the U.S. Air Force, among others. She was also head of the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati for five years and has held visiting appointments at Procter & Gamble, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), and Lund University (Sweden).

May 2010

Paper of the Year 2009

The Human Relations Paper of the Year Award is given to the paper that the Editorial Team considers best encapsulates broad readership appeal, sound methods, and whose theory advances our understanding of human relations at work.

We are delighted to announce that the prize for the Paper of the Year in the 2009 (62nd) volume of Human Relations has been awarded to:

Dialectics in a global software team: Negotiating tensions across time, space, and culture
Jennifer Gibbs
Human Relations 2009, 62 (6): 905–935.

Professor Gibbs will receive vouchers worth £150 to spend on SAGE books or journals and a free one-year subscription to Human Relations.

January 2010

Professor Terry Beehr joins the Editorial Team

Terry Beehr is Director of Industrial/OrganizationalProgram at Central Michigan University. He has had long term interest in several research topics, including job stress, career movement, job satisfaction and motivation, retirement, and leadership. He currently is involved in projects on retirement, job stress, career movement, and job satisfaction. One of his specific current interests in the occupational stress area is the nature and effects of social support for the stressed employee. He conducts research primarily in areas often characterised as the social psychology of organisations, including leadership, groups, motivation, attitudes, health, careers, culture, life decisions, and organisational and individual effectiveness. Two of his most active long-term research interests are older employees' decisions to retire and occupational stress.

Click here to view details about the rest of the Editorial Team

January 2010

A fond farewell to Professor Daniel G. Gallagher

Human Relations said a fond farewell to Dan Gallagher at the end of December. Dan 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.

December 2009

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 Relations was agreed in October and will be used for volume 63 and for OnlineFirst articles.

We hope you like it!

Our revised contributor guidance shows you how to format your submission in line with the redesign.

November 2009

Listen to our first ever podcast!

Human Relations Associate Editor Gail Fairhurst leads this insightful discussion along with the guest editors of our November 2009 special issue 'The context of leadership', Bob Liden and John Antonakis.

Click here for free access to the podcast

September 2009

Sign up for OnlineFirst email alerts!

Readers and authors alike are encouraged to sign up for OnlineFirst email alert options, ensuring immediate notification each time a paper is published online first. Email alerts are also available for ongoing journal tables of contents and for alerts by author name and keyword. Visit http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts and sign up today!

August 2009

Human Relations launches OnlineFirst

Now you can read forthcoming articles online before they are allocated to an issue. To view the list of OnlineFirst article postings, visit the journal's homepage and click on the OnlineFirst link.

Read about how OnlineFirst works

View forthcoming articles

August 2009

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.

We are delighted to announce that this year's winner is Professor Steve Frenkel (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.

June 2009

Human Relations impact factor rises to 1.372

We are pleased to reveal that 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 acheive these results and we aim for further increases in future!