Current newsletter: December 2011
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Recent news
November 2011
Gail Fairhurst - NCA Distinguished Scholar Award
Huge congratulations go to Associate Editor Gail Fairhurst, who this month received the National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award, which recognizes and rewards a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of communication. The NCA selects Distinguished Scholars whose work showcases the profession. Gail commented:
"To be recognized as a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association this year, and a Fellow of the International Communication Association last year, is a rare honor accorded to few scholars in my discipline. I so appreciate the colleagues with whom I have worked and the support of the University of Cincinnati over the years. It's also wonderful to be working in a field as vibrant and relevant as communication."
August 2011
Reviewer of the Year 2011
Warm congratulations to Tony Watson (Nottingham University Business School, UK), who is our worthy Award winner this year. Tony's prize includes £150 of vouchers to spend on SAGE journals or books, plus a one-year free subscription to Human Relations.
The Human Relations Reviewer of the Year Award is given 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 past 12 months.
Many other reviewers have also provided outstanding support for the journal. We are enormously grateful to all of our reviewers for their time, thoughtful comments and prompt submission of reviews. Without this contribution from our reviewers we would not be able to produce the journal. A list of reviewers from the previous 12 months is published in the December issue of the journal each year.
Click here to see other Reviewer of the Year Award Winners
June 2011
Impact factor rises to 1.701!
The 2010 2-year impact factor for Human Relations is 1.701 and 2.595 for the 5-year impact factor. Many thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers for helping us to increase our impact factor yet again!
June 2011
New podcast in international HRM!
In our third podcast to date, special issue guest editors Rick Delbridge, Marco Hauptmeier and Sukanya Sengupta discuss their special issue, published in Human Relations in April 2011, on broadening the horizons of international HRM.
For free access to the International HRM podcast click here.
May 2011
New Editor-in-Chief of Human Relations appointed
We are delighted to announce that Paul Edwards will be the next Editor-in-Chief of Human Relations, starting in January 2012 after Stephen Deery's six year term as EIC finishes at the end of this year.
Paul Edwards is Professor of Employment Relations at Birmingham Business School. He was formerly at Warwick University where he directed the Industrial Relations Research Unit. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He edited Work, Employment and Society for three years, and is 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). He edited Industrial Relations (1995 and 2003) and co-edited (with Marek Korczynski and Randy Hodson) Social Theory at Work (2006). 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 relations in small firms.
May 2011
The 1st Israel Organizational Behavior Conference
Human Relations joins the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management in co-sponsoring the First Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (IOBC) on Relational Issues in Management. This will be held at the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv, Israel, on December 21–22, 2011.The IOBC will offer a unique opportunity to present innovative ideas and explore recent developments on "relational" issues in management. The conference will also be an opportunity to share work-in-progress, receive feedback and interact with leading scholars in the field with the hope of forging fruitful collaborations.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania)
Professor Linn van Dyne (Michigan State University)
Click on the links for more information about the Call for Papers and Symposia and submission guidlines. The deadline for online submissions of abstracts and symposium proposals is July 1, 2011.
IOBC Best Paper Award
Select papers will be nominated as finalists for the IOBC Best Paper Award. The selected winner(s) of the IOBC Best Paper Award will receive a $500 cash prize. The winning paper will be announced in the concluding session of IOBC.
April 2011
Press coverage of Geddes and Stickney paper
Deanna Geddes and Lisa T Stickney's article The trouble with sanctions: Organizational responses to deviant anger displays at work in the February 2011 issue (Human Relations 2011, 64, 201–230) generated plenty of media coverage, including these articles:
Angry Employees Can Improve Workplace
Business News Daily, April 13, 2011
Respond to Workers' Angry Outbursts with Compassion for Best Results
EHS Today, April 13, 2011
Compassion, Not Punishment, Helps Diffuse Workplace Anger: Study
U.S. News & World Report, April 14, 2011
Compassion, not sanctions, is best response to workplace anger
PsychPost, April 14, 2011
Compassion eases workplace tension
The Times of India, April 15, 2011
Compassion, not sanctions, best response to workplace anger: Study
Canadian HR Reporter, April 15, 2011
March 2011
Award for Human Relations Paper of the Year 2010
We are delighted to announce that the award for the Paper of the Year from the 63rd (2010) volume of Human Relations has been given to:
How passive 'face time' affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference
Kimberly D Elsbach, Dan M Cable, and Jeffrey W Sherman
Human Relations 2010, 63, 735–760
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. The authors will each receive vouchers worth £100 to spend on SAGE books or journals and a free subscription to Human Relations for 12 months.
Click here to see other Paper of the Year Award Winners
January 2011
Listen to our new podcast!
In our second podcast to date, Zella King (University of Reading, UK) takes an interesting and engaging look at contested terrain in careers, using a psychological contract model. The podcast complements Zella King and Kerr Inkson's paper in this month's special issue.
Free access to the Careers Podcast.
