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Special issue call for papers: The life of a happy worker: Examining short-term fluctuations in employee happiness and well-being (submission deadline 31/12/2010)
Special issue call for papers: Sensemaking, organising and storytelling (submission deadline 31/03/2010)
Human Relations seeks high quality research papers that extend our knowledge of social relationships at work and organizational forms, practices and processes that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and work organizations.
Human Relations welcomes manuscripts that seek to cross disciplinary boundaries in order to develop new perspectives and insights into social relationships and relationships between people and organizations.
Human Relations encourages strong empirical contributions that develop and extend theory as well as more conceptual papers that integrate, critique and expand existing theory.
Human Relations encourages research that relates social theory to social practice and translates knowledge about Human Relations into prospects for social action and policy-making that aims to improve working lives.
Human Relations encourages the uses of methods that are appropriate to both the research context and research questions and therefore welcomes both qualitative and quantitative methods and innovative methods of investigation and analysis.
Human Relations encourages papers that combine different empirical methods and which explore different levels of analysis.
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A Fast Track to Publication and Innovative Review Process...
· Human Relations offers a fast-track to publication with an average 90 days between acceptance for review and first decision.
· Human Relations also boasts an innovative "reviewer school". Each manuscript reviewer receives the anonymous copies of other reviews in an attempt to offer exposure to the excellent refereeing practice that informs future reviewing work.
JCR Impact Factor
2008 Ranking:
7/61 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
41/89 in Management
2008 Impact Factor: 1.372
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Human Relations is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://hum.sagepub.com
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