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Call for Human Relations Co-Editor-in-Chief

We are seeking to appoint a new Co-Editor-in-Chief for Human Relations to share the role with Professor Smriti Anand from January 2024. Human Relations is a leading international multidisciplinary social science journal which has been published for over 75 years. You can find out more about the role and how to apply here: Call for Human Relations Co-Editor-in-Chief 2023

A Behind the Scenes Look at an Award-Winning Paper on Knowledge Hiding

What goes into making an exceptional academic article? In this interview, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Smriti Anand, and Yasin Rofcanin, an Associate Editor of the journal Human Relations, ask that of Laura Venz and Hadar Nesher Shoshan, authors of the journal’s official 2022 article of the year. In “Be smart, play dumb? A transactional perspective on day-specific knowledge hiding, interpersonal conflict, and psychological strain,” the authors explore knowledge hiding; addressing the question, if knowledge hiding has only negative effects, why do employees hide knowledge in their everyday work at all? Read the interview here to learn more about the writing process and discover the important implications of this paper for research and practice.

Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations

This important piece for Human Relations outlines our current broad expectations for reviews and essays as a guide for authors and reviewers! You can access the article online HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

2-year impact factor: 5.658
5-year impact factor: 6.620


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