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Supervisor negative feedback and employee motivation to learn: An attribution perspective

Lu Xing, Jian-Min Sun, Denise Jepsen and Yejun Zhang

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Special Issues - Proposals and Call for Papers

Interested in submitting a Special Issue proposal to Human Relations? We welcome proposals from September 2024. Find out more here.

Our latest Call for Papers is now online – “I am my Work: New Lines of Inquiry in the study of Identity Regulations in and around Organizations.”

Papers can be submitted from 1st May 2025. Find out more here.

 

 

 

 

Paper of the Year 2024!

 

 

Our 2024 Paper of the Year Awards goes to “Seeing others’ side to serve: Understanding how and when servant leadership impacts employee knowledge-hiding behaviors”, Muhammad Usman, Moazzam Ali, Gbemisola T Soetan, Oluremi B Ayoko, Aykut Berber, Vol 77, Issue 1.

Congratulations to the team on their award winning article!

Call for Papers

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.

Why publish in Human Relations

Human Relations is included in the FT50 journals list used by the Financial Times in compiling the FT Research rank, included in the Global MBA, EMBA and Online MBA rankings.

Human Relations is an A* journal – the highest category of quality in the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List. Journals ranked A* represent approximately the top 6.8% of listed Business and Management journals. Human Relations is ranked 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide 2021.

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