News

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.

Click here for more on Sam

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.