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Call for Papers

 

Using Human Capital Analytics to Make Excellent Business Decisions
A Special Issue of People and Strategy
The Journal of HR People & Strategy
 
For the full call, click here.

Increasingly, we are seeing a broad trend toward data-driven decisions across a wide variety of subject areas. This is especially true in HR. “HR Analytics is an emerging discipline that can help enable HR to fulfill the promise of becoming a true strategic partner,” Alec Levenson wrote in HR Strategic Review in 2005.

Five years later, however, we still need more information that conveys the range of research projects organizations are undertaking in this critical area. Even more importantly, we need empirical data on the analytics approaches that have proven to be most useful. The more information and knowledge we have to guide us as we transition to a more data-driven profession and leverage a broader range of datasets and methodological approaches, the better off we will be as a profession and as practitioners.
 
Full-length articles are 4-5,000 words.

PUBLICATION TIMETABLE -
September 15, 2010 Articles are due to People & Strategy – a well-written draft ready to be edited

February 1, 2011 We will indicate if the article is accepted, and, if so, what revisions are needed; if your article is accepted we will work closely with you to shape and revise it between February and May

May 10, 2011 All articles are in final form

July 2011 Publication of Special Issue

Submission Information
All submissions should be sent electronically in a Word document to:
Theresa Wojtalewicz
HR People & Strategy
twojtalewicz@hrps.org
312-673-5870

Editors:
Mark Vickers
Institute for Corporate Productivity, 727 345-2226
mark.vickers@i4cp.com

Alexis Fink
Microsoft Corporation,  425 703 6913
alexis.fink@microsoft.com
 
To view the complete version of the Articles Submission Guidelines, including the Advice to Contributors section, please visit the Media Room/People and Strategy at www.hrps.org or
http://www.hrps.org/?page=ArticleSubmission.
 
Posted July 20, 2010
Journal of Change Management
Special Issue: Changing Identity and the Identity of Change
Guest Editors: Deborah Price (Open University Business School, UK) & Rolf van Dick (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
 
Identities have a number of impacts on both people and organizations. People identifying with an organization show improved customer focus, display extra role behaviours and are less inclined to leave. Alternatively, identity may be seen as a means through which people make sense of their self and their relationships with others. In either case, tensions exist between attempts to change that organization, and identity and identification. Tension exists because people who use organizational membership to create their personal identities should most strongly resist change as this impacts their self-definition. However, strongly identified employees should support organizational change most strongly as this contributes to organizational success.  Likewise, tension exists between the organization’s need for change, and the need for sufficient stability to allow people to draw on organizational referents to construct their identities. Accordingly, this special issue invites theoretical and empirical papers, and research in either quantitative or qualitative traditions, which addresses the following:
 
1. How is the process of identification influenced by organizational change?   
2. How can we characterise the relationship between identity, identification and organizational change?
3. What impact do organizational, social and personal identities have on an organization’s ability to change, and on the effectiveness of change initiatives?
 
Refereeing Process - Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the Journal’s normal (double-blind review) procedures. Submitted papers (5000-7000 words) should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. 
 
Timescale  Date for submission - 31.01.2011
       Publication of special issue - 2012
 
Guest Editors
Deborah Price  d.price@open.ac.uk
Rolf van Dick  van.dick@psych.uni-frankfurt.de
 
Posted July 20, 2010

International Journal of Management & Enterprise Development (IJMED), www.inderscience.com/ijmed  ISSN: 1468-4330 

  • We are celebrating 6 years of publication, the IJMED is moving fast towards higher publication standards with recently 8 issues per year.
  • IJMED is listed in Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management (www.cabells.com), formally applying for inclusion in Social Science Citation Index(SSCI), and the H-Index during 2003-2008 is 13 with average cites per paper during 2003-2008 =4.09.   
  • IJMED enjoys an impressive, record number of submissions with more than 220 manuscripts and 19% of current acceptance rate.
  • IJMED maintains a rapid electronic submission, review, and publication process. The double-blind review process takes on average 7-8weeks.  
  • IJMED is also included in the ISWorld Publications Page at www.osu-tulsa.okstate.edu/nromano/wwwroot/iswjsp/, listed as a very popular IS journal in the Index of Information Systems Journals at http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/

The following areas are particularly suitable (but are not limited to):

  • SMEs' start-up development
  • Corporate venturing in SMEs
  • Technological opportunities and new firm creation
  • Valuation
  • Technological adoption and technology transfer
  • Joint ventures and alliances
  • Business incubator development strategy
  • Technopreneurship
  • Economic and social entrepreneurship
  • Virtual coaching service for SMEs
  • SME policy and entrepreneurship policy
  • Start-up cognitions and behaviours
  • Halo effect and technology licensing
  • Franchising and corporate ownership
  • Long-run technology investments in SMEs
  • Knowledge management in SMEs
  • Technology strategy in SMEs
  • Managing rapid growth
  • Accelerating competitive effectiveness
  • Strategy decision speed and SME performance
  • Entrepreneurs in the non-profit sector

All manuscripts should be submitted via email attachment in one single Word file with MS Word format to the Editor at linn@mail.ncku.edu.tw. Please check our web site at www.inderscience.com/ijmed concerning the format, style, and guide to authors. 

Posted 7/20/10

Special Issue: Indirect Measurement of Implicit Processes in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior
Journal: Human Resource Management Review

Editor: Nathan A. Bowling, Wright State University (e-mail: nathan.bowling@wright.edu)
Co-Editor: Russell E. Johnson, Michigan State University

Much of the extant research in human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) uses direct self-report measures of personality, attitudes, and behaviors. Recent research, however, has highlighted the potential value of indirect measures that assess uncontrolled processes that occur outside of awareness. Examples of indirect measures include the implicit association test (IATs; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), the conditional reasoning test (CRT; James, McIntyre, Glisson, Bowler, & Mitchell, 2004), word completion tasks (Johnson, Tolentino, Rodopman, & Cho, 2010), and the affect misattribution procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005). Although examining implicit processes via indirect measures is popular among social psychologists, the use of such measures in HRM and OB has been relatively limited. The objective of the current special issue is to review what is known about indirect measurement and describe how indirect measures can be effectively utilized in HRM and OB research.

Example topics might include issues pertaining to face validity or respondent buy-in regarding indirect measures, how to use specific indirect measurement techniques (e.g., IAT, AMP, neuroimaging instruments like the fMRI) for HRM/OB research, identifying situations where indirect measures are (and are not) appropriate, using indirect measures for admin purposes (e.g., selection, training), whether or not indirect measures and direct measures are tapping the same content and processes, and indirect measures as a means of combating response distortion.

Although we are especially interested in theoretical/conceptual submissions that advance the literature on indirect measurement as it applies to HRM/OB, we will also consider empirically-based submissions. Please submit a copy of your manuscript to Nathan A. Bowling (e-mail: nathan.bowling@wright.edu) by April 1, 2011. Note that all submissions will undergo a thorough peer review process.

Posted July 12, 2010   

Call for Proposals: JPP 2011 and 2012 Special Issues

Journal of Personnel Psychology (JPP) is seeking proposals from prospective guest editors for special issues to be published in the 2011 and 2012 volumes. Proposals will be evaluated by the team of associate editors, and the guest editor(s) will be responsible for overseeing the review process and selecting the content of the issue.

Successful proposals must have an overarching theme that fits the mission and scope of JPP. To give a few examples, JPP (formerly ZPP) in the past years published special issues on

  • Demographic change in work organizations (2009, guest edited by Jürgen Deller and Guido Hertel)
  • Knowledge transfer and development of competencies (2008, guest edited by Niclas Schaper and Simone Kauffeld)
  • Personality at work (2007, guest edited by Jürgen Deller and Deniz Ones)
  • Commitment in organizations (2006, guest edited by Rolf van Dick and Michael Riketta)
  • Assessment centers (2005, guest edited by  Stefan Höft)

In 2010 JPP will publish a special issue on Shared Leadership (guest editors: Craig Pierce, Jürgen Wegge, Julia Hoch, and Hans Jeppe Jeppesen).

Proposals should include the following information:

  • Need and rationale for this special issue (max. 300 words)
  • Possible topics of inquiry (max. 300 words)
  • Time line (including prefered year of publication 2011 or 2012)
  • Qualifications of the editor(s)
  • Sample call for papers for the issue (1 page)

All proposals should be e-mailed to the Managing Editor, Johannes Ullrich (jpp.editorial.office@gmail.com), no later than October 1, 2010.

Further information about JPP and a free online sample issue are available here: www.hogrefe.com/journals/jpp.

Posted July 12, 2010

Call for Papers for Meta-Analysis

A group of researchers from Texas A&M University and Wayne State University (Dr. Christopher Berry, Tara McClure, and I) are conducting a meta-analysis of ethnic group differences in the criterion-related validity of cognitive ability tests.  We have already searched the published literature as well as recent SIOP and AOM conference programs for articles. Thus, we are interested in acquiring unpublished papers that have not been recently presented at these conferences, as well as published papers that may not have explicitly examined differential validity or differential prediction but still provide data useful for our purposes that we may have missed during our keyword searches.

Specifically, we are looking for papers that report correlations between cognitive ability test scores and some measure of performance (e.g., job performance, academic performance, military training performance) separately for different racial/ethnic subgroups (Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic).

If you have any such studies that you are willing to share with us, please email me at malissa@wayne.edu.
 

Posted February 22, 2010

Call for papers and reviewers for a special issue of Management Decision entitled Enhancing Decisions

The focus of the issue would be on ways to help people with managerial responsibilities at work and in private lives, enhance their decision-making skills and, of course, their success. Selection of papers for the issue would be based on their likely interest to individuals who want to improve their own skills, to faculty member in various disciplines, and even more so to readers who have management development responsibilities.
 
The publisher of this special edition, Emerald Publishing, is the world's leading publisher of management papers. Its focus on theory-into-practice means that Emerald journals publish papers with direct application to the world of work.

Papers can address research or viewpoints.  They can be technical or conceptual papers, case studies, literature reviews, or general reviews.

All papers will be double-blind reviewed, after a preliminary screening by the guest editor. 

As a guide, papers should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. A title of not more than twelve words should be provided.  Specific instructions for registering and for submitting papers are at the end of this call.  Deadline is August 1, 2010.  
 
Please submit your paper online after creating an author account at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/md.  Then follow the on-screen guidance which takes you through the submission process. Also please send a copy to the guest editor, Erwin Rausch at didacticra@aol.com.  Extensions of the deadline can be requested from him, if needed.
 
Information of likely interest to authors is on http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/md/notes.jsp
 
For inquiries, please contact Erwin Rausch at didacticra@aol.com.

Posted October 20, 2009