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Non-standard employment and underemployment at labor market entry and their impact on later wage trajectories Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Reci
Using data from the Australian Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001–2020), we examine how combined patterns of non-standard employment and underemployment in the early career shape later wage trajectories, paying careful attention to gender differences on a representative sample of Australian young men ( N = 470) and women ( N = 497). By combining multichannel sequence
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Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ellen Nathues, Mark van Vuuren, Maaike D Endedijk, Matthias Wenzel
Boundary objects help collaborators create shared meaning and coordinate their work across differences. Acknowledging the complex dynamics of such processes, we propose a multimodal alternative to studies’ traditionally static view of boundary objects and ask: How do boundary objects “shape-shift”? How do they emerge in varying forms across visual, verbal, and embodied modes, and in what ways does
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How narcissism, promotion criteria, and empowering leadership jointly influence creativity through diverse information searching: An expectancy perspective Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Zhiqiang Liu, Kong Zhou, Jie Wang
While narcissism is commonly regarded as a dark personality trait associated with many negative outcomes, it also carries potential benefits. How to suppress the negative aspects of narcissism and promote its benefits has important implications for both scholars and practitioners. This study proposes two managerial practices (i.e. promotions based on relative performance and empowering leadership)
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The pragmatic cycle of knowledge work: Unlocking cross-domain collaboration in open innovation spaces Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Karl-Emanuel Dionne, Paul R Carlile
Collaborating is increasingly characterized by working across domains and organizations. Teams rapidly form and dissolve, actors and settings frequently change, yet most academic research focuses on stable organizations and team configurations with familiar domains. This leads to the question: how do people successfully collaborate across domains and organizations in circumstances where there is little
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Strategic, episodic and truncated orientations to planning in post-redundancy career transitions Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Robert MacKenzie, Christopher J McLachlan, Roland Ahlstrand, Alexis Rydell, Jennifer Hobbins
This article examines different orientations to planning in the context of the post-redundancy transition of workers in the Swedish steel industry. The aim of the article is to extend our understanding of the role of planning in careers transitions. Drawing on careers transitions theories, the article explores the qualitative experience of the journey between a redundancy event and the employment situation
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Coping with personhood limbo: Personhood anchoring work among undocumented workers in Italy Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Roya Derakhshan, Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Andrew Crane
Prevailing socio-legal structures create a state of personhood limbo for undocumented workers, where broader society undermines various aspects of their personhood in a way that prevents them from fully representing and embracing all dimensions of their selves in and around the workplace. But how do undocumented workers cope with personhood limbo? Drawing on interviews with undocumented workers and
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Once a job crafter, always a job crafter? Investigating job crafting in organizations as a reciprocal self-concordant process across time Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Michael E Clinton, Uta K Bindl, Keely J Frasca, Elena Martinescu
Research depicts job crafting as a desirable, ongoing employee behavior rather than a one-off event. However, insights are lacking into how employees’ active engagement in job crafting may be sustained across time. In this study, we advance a dynamic framework of how changes that follow employees’ periods of job crafting may, in turn, motivate versus impede continued crafting of one’s job role over
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Addressing durability in collaborative organising: Event atmospheres and polyrhythmic affectivity Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Bernhard Resch, David Rozas
Collaborative organising is known to burn like a rocket: it thrives on intense passion, relationality and creativity but quickly falls into pieces. This article explores the underestimated role of events and their affective atmospheres to sustain collaborative work. Drawing insights from two ethnographic field studies within an open-source software community and a network of impact entrepreneurs, we
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‘Brazil must be a country for entrepreneurs and workers, not scoundrels’: Personal branding mechanisms underpinning CEO activism Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Amon Barros, Benjamin Rosenthal, Caio Coelho, Bruno Leandro
Chief executive officer (CEO) activism literature primarily explores issues in which CEOs engage, and its consequences for consumers and employees. However, a glaring gap lies in how CEOs engage in activism, particularly, through social media. Our study aims to bridge this gap by analyzing the online identity of Luciano Hang, a Brazilian CEO, activist, and billionaire, focusing on the crafting of Hang’s
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Working with pride in the shadow of shame: Emotional dissonance and identity work during a corporate scandal Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sanne Frandsen, Johanne Grant, Dan Kärreman
The relationship between emotions and identity work is well established, yet the dynamic between emotional dissonance and identity work remains under-researched in organizational studies. We explore this relationship in the context of organizational scandal, examining the required and experienced emotions of organizational members when ‘working in the shadow of shame’. Drawing on an in-depth ethnographic
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‘Into the danger-zone’: How intersubjective processes rooted in social identities shape responses to existential threats Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Karan Sonpar, Federica Pazzaglia, Samir Shrivastava, Yash Garg
How do individuals who engage in high-risk work deal with the existential threats that are part and parcel of their daily activities? Based on a qualitative study of fighter pilots, we find that experiences and responses to existential threats are shaped by three intersubjective processes, that is, socially constructed and accepted patterns of interactions by which individuals come to view existential
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#Knowyourworth: How influencers commercialise meaningful work Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Sarah Glozer
Studies of meaningful work have proposed that work that holds personal significance and meaning can transcend pay. But how can workers who do not want, or cannot afford, to sacrifice pay for meaning commercialise their work to realise its market worth? We explore this question in the context of social media influencers who participated in the InfluencerPayGap community (an Instagram profile established
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‘I don’t know what’s going on’: Theorising the relationship between unknowingness and distributed leadership Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sarah Bloomfield, Clare Rigg, Russ Vince
Surely a leader should know what to do? But what happens when complexity means they cannot know which path to take? We answer this question with an ethnographic study of distributed leadership (DL) in an organisation grappling with inherent tensions within its mission. The article makes a counter-intuitive argument for the value and utility of unknowingness, defined as a state of awareness of both
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‘I disdain the company of flatterers!’: How and when observed ingratiation predicts employees’ ostracism toward their ingratiating colleagues Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Bao Cheng, Gongxing Guo, Jian Tian, Yurou Kong
Ingratiation is an impression management tactic used by those who seek to obtain the favor of others. Previous studies mainly examine the role of ingratiation from the initiator’s perspective, igno...
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Mitigating anxiety: The role of strategic leadership groups during radical organisational change Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Michael Jarrett, Russ Vince
This article examines the role of strategic leadership groups in radical organisational change. Previous research has focused on how ‘heroic’ individual leaders guide change. In contrast, we argue ...
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Too sleepy to be innovative? Ethical leadership and employee service innovation behavior: A dual-path model moderated by sleep quality Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Zahid Hameed, Puneet Kaur, Amandeep Dhir
This research explores the association of ethical leadership with employee service innovation behavior through a moderated mediation model. Theorizing on uncertainty reduction theory, we explore ps...
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Welcome to parenthood!? An examination of the far-reaching effects of perceived adoption stigma in the workplace Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Kaylee J Hackney, Matthew J Quade, Dawn S Carlson, Ryan P Hanlon, Gary R Thurgood
While there may be no difference in terms of the love, care, and bond shared between parent and child, relationships created through adoption are often viewed less favorably in our society compared...
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Female board membership and stakeholder strategy: Consistency under complexity and uncertainty Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Małgorzata Smulowitz, Stephen J Smulowitz
How does female board membership affect firm stakeholder strategy? With the large increase in pressure to add more women to boards, it is especially important to understand how they influence firm ...
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The double-edged sword of negative supervisor gossip: When and why negative supervisor gossip promotes versus inhibits feedback seeking behavior among gossip targets Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Qianlin Zhu, Elena Martinescu, Bianca Beersma, Feng Wei
How does being the target of negative supervisor gossip influence the functioning of targeted employees? We draw on feedback intervention theory to examine the beneficial and detrimental effects of...
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A woman’s got to be what a woman’s got to be? How managerial assessment centers perpetuate gender inequality Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Ronit Kark, Ruth Blatt, Varda Wiesel
Why do women receive equal or better performance ratings than men in managerial assessment centers even when they are structured in ways that systematically disadvantage them? This study provides t...
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Understanding the negotiation and performance effects of idiosyncratic deals: Test of a moderated mediation model Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Samuel Aryee, Li-Yun Sun, Hsin-Hua Hsiung
Despite the prevalence of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) as an adaptive strategy for the effective management of an increasingly diverse workforce, the drivers of these customized work arrangements ...
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Investigating the making of organizational social responsibility as a polyphony of voices: A ventriloquial analysis of practitioners’ interactions Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Alessandro Poroli, François Cooren
Though studies increasingly suggest nurturing a polyphonic and conflict-centered understanding of organizational social responsibility—referred to as CSR here—little is known about which voices mak...
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Ideas endorsed, credit claimed: Managerial credit claiming weakens the benefits of voice endorsement on future voice behavior through respect and work group identification Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Hana Johnson, Wen Wu, Yihua Zhang, Yijing Lyu
Does endorsement of employees’ constructive voice always result in more voice behavior in the future? Although it is often assumed that endorsement is a critical predictor of future voice behavior,...
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Editorial: Crafting review and essay articles for Human Relations Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Andrew D. Brown
Human Relations has long welcomed different types of reviews – systematic reviews, meta-analyses, conceptual reviews, narrative reviews, historical reviews – and critical essays that are original, ...
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EXPRESS: Relative Status and Dyadic Help Seeking and Giving: The Roles of Past Helping History and Power Distance Value Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Woonki Hong, Lu Zhang, Ravi S. Gajendran
Employees may not always seek and give help when needed in the dyadic context due to status disparity. Drawing on the cost and benefit framework in social exchange, we examine the effects of relati...
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EXPRESS: Where the past meets the present: Upward mobility, environmental stimuli, and CEOs’ investment in CSR Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Joanna Tochman Campbell, Jennifer J Kish-Gephart
Does the experience of upwardly mobility make top executives more or less likely to invest in socially conscious initiatives at the firm level? Despite early theorizing, much remains unknown about ...
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Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 David Sarpong, Mairi Maclean, Charles Harvey
How can we better understand the puzzle of low-skilled migrants who have acquired citizenship in a European Union country, often with generous social security provision, choosing to relocate to the...
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Doing inclusion as counter-conduct: Navigating the paradoxes of organizing for refugee and migrant inclusion Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Laura Kangas-Müller, Kirsi Eräranta, Johanna Moisander
Are organizational projects for refugee and migrant inclusion always trapped with the logic of exclusion and inequality that they seek to dismantle? Existing literature on critical diversity and in...
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Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Dide van Eck, Laura Dobusch, Marieke van den Brink
Workers in the low-wage service sector represent a sociodemographically heterogeneous and particularly vulnerable group in terms of job security, job quality and health implications. However, organ...
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Webs of oppression: An intersectional analysis of inequalities facing women activists in Palestine Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Amal Nazzal, Lindsay Stringfellow, Mairi Maclean
How can we understand the multiple, intersecting webs of oppression that Palestinian women activists face in their everyday organizing? With a long tradition of counter-hegemonic organizing, the Pa...
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Financially insecure and less ethical: Understanding why and when financial insecurity inhibits ethical leadership Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Yuanmei (Elly) Qu, Mayowa T Babalola, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Shuang Ren, Lu Chen, Mengxi Yang
With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, among other crises (e.g., Russia–Ukraine conflicts and recession projections) threatening organizations’ financial conditions across the globe, supervisors may no...
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Talking about disappointments: Identification work through multiple discourses at a prestigious university Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Mahima Mitra, Michael Gill, Sue Dopson
Disappointment is common in many organizations. Yet little is known about how individuals’ talk about their workplace disappointment shapes their identification with organizations. We conducted an ...
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EXPRESS: UNDERSTANDING MEANINGFUL WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF TECHNOSTRESS, COVID-19, FRUSTRATION AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Darija Aleksić, Saša Batistič, Matej Cerne
COVID-19 and digitalization represent important sources of many employees’ frustrations. In this paper, we address the question of how employees can achieve meaningful work in such a challenging an...
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EXPRESS: The Dialogic Performativity of Secrecy and Transparency Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Ziyun Fan, Lars Christensen
How does the pursuit of transparency and insight tend to produce secrecy and vice versa? In popular and political discourse, secrecy and transparency are usually depicted as mutually exclusive prac...
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EXPRESS: Bottom-Line Mentality from a Goal Shielding Perspective: Does Bottom-Line Mentality Explain the Link between Rewards and Pro-Self Unethical Behavior? Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Mary Mawritz, Andrea Farro, Joongseo Kim, Rebecca Lee Greenbaum, Cynthia Wang, Julena Bonner
We extend research on goal-contingent rewards and bottom-line mentality (BLM) by drawing on goal shielding theory to examine BLM as a goal shielding process that explains the link between goal-cont...
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EXPRESS: Gender(ed) performances: Women’s impression management in stand-up comedy Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Clare Cook, Jamie L. Callahan, Thomas V. Pollet, Carole Elliott
How do women navigate and make space for themselves in workspaces where they are not perceived to fit? Women in male dominated careers often face perceptions of role misfit, leading them to engage ...
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EXPRESS: Leaders’ Responses to Receipt of Proactive Helping: Integrating Theories of Approach-Avoidance and Challenge-Hindrance Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Hun Whee Lee, Nai-Wen Chi, You Jin Kim, Hanho Lee, Szu-Han (Joanna) Lin, Russell E. Johnson
How do leaders lead in a complex environment? Leaders often rely on help from others. However, not all help is necessarily beneficial to leaders, especially when it is offered without being asked (...
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Mobilizing Landscapes of Practice to Address Grand Challenges Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Fran Ackermann, Igor Pyrko, Georgina Hill
Grand challenges (GCs) require coordinated and integrated responses that draw on different occupational communities' competencies that might otherwise remain in isolation. We theorize how GCs can b...
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EXPRESS: Fast and spurious: How executives capture governance structures to prevent cooperativization Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Emilie Bourlier-Bargues, Jean-Pascal Gond, Bertrand Valiorgue
Although workers’ cooperatives are regarded as credible alternatives to private companies to reform capitalism, scholars have only started to document the struggles inherent to cooperativization – ...
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Seeing others’ side to serve: Understanding how and when servant leadership impacts employee knowledge-hiding behaviors Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Muhammad Usman, Moazzam Ali, Gbemisola T Soetan, Oluremi B Ayoko, Aykut Berber
Previous studies have overlooked critical differences between different aspects of employees’ knowledge-hiding behaviors. Using Social Information Processing theory as an anchor, we fill this void ...
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EXPRESS: Effects of Gender Composition in Committees Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Erika Christie Berle, Kenneth Kavajecz, Yuko Onozaka
Does having more women on a committee matter? Interestingly, answers to this question are unknown, despite a significant push toward greater gender diversity on committees and boards. This paper un...
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EXPRESS: “Getting a grip”? Phenomenological insights into handling work place in London’s Soho Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Kathleen Riach, Melissa Tyler
How are working lives shaped by the demands and expectations associated with a particular workplace? And how are work identities enacted to demonstrate a capacity to cope with place-based demands, ...
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EXPRESS: Bloody suffering and durability: How chefs forge embodied identities in elite kitchens Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Robin Burrow, Rebecca Scott, David Courpasson
In this article we elaborate on the significance of suffering in processes of embodied identity construction. Drawing on interviews with 62 chefs employed in elite kitchens around the world we make...
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EXPRESS: Organising populism: from symbolic power to symbolic violence Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Ron Kerr, Sarah Robinson, Martyna Śliwa
This paper contributes to developing a management and organisation studies perspective on political organising by focusing on a) populism; b) the exercise of political power; and c) the organisatio...
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EXPRESS: How and When Leader Mindfulness Influences Team Member Interpersonal Behavior: Evidence from a Quasi-Field Experiment and a Field Survey Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Dan Ni, Xiaoming Zheng, Lindie Hanyu Liang
Although studies have verified the beneficial effects of individual mindfulness in the workplace, the knowledge of how leader mindfulness crosses over to team members’ interpersonal behavior via af...
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EXPRESS: Unsettling West-centrism in the study of professional service firms Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Mehdi Boussebaa
Over the last two decades, the study of professional service firms (PSFs) has emerged as a significant subfield of management studies. In this article, I offer a postcolonial critique of this subfi...
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EXPRESS: Power as an enabling force: An integrative review Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Steven Van Baarle, Annelies S A Bobelyn, Sharon A M Dolmans, A Georges L Romme
The power literature’s focus on questioning power relations has gone at the expense of deliberate attempts to improve organizational practices. How can critical performativity and other scholars ad...
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CEO performance management behaviors’ influence on TMT flourishing, job attitudes, and firm performance Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Amanda Christensen-Salem, Angelo Kinicki, Jaclyn Perrmann-Graham, Fred O Walumbwa
Does a chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) ability to manage and motivate their direct reports impact firm financial performance? Good or bad, CEO leadership research is increasingly romanticized, le...
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The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Gabriella Cioce, Marek Korczynski, Davide Però
There are considerable language barriers facing the potential collective labour organization of multi-ethnic migrant workers. From the research literature, we know little about linguistic practices...
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EXPRESS: Social courage promotes organizational identification via crafting social resources at work: A repeated-measures study Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Janne Kaltiainen, Anniina Virtanen, Jari J Hakanen
What individuals themselves may do to enhance their identification with their employer organization? Does being socially courageous promote such formation of identity? If so, does this process occu...
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Unpacking work–family conflict in the marital dyad: Interaction of employee fit and partner fit Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Yeong-Hyun Hong, Maura J Mills, Yongwon Suh, Michael T Ford
Can workers optimize their work and family lives when their involvement across both domains fits with their values, regardless of what their partners value? The current study suggests that it is no...
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‘I like the “buzz”, but I also suffer from it’: Mitigating interaction and distraction in collective workplaces Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Yosha Wijngaarden
Collective workplaces – such as coworking spaces, open workplan offices, maker spaces, or fab labs – are founded on one central premise: working alongside others leads to interactions, collaboratio...
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Professional responsibility in the borderlands: Facing irreconcilable accountability regimes in veterinary work Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Berber R Pas, Lucas D Introna, Rinske Wolters, Ed Vosselman
(Dutch) veterinarians have increasingly been confronted with conflicting accountability regimes, related to data-driven, networked accountability systems, to decrease the use of antibiotics in vete...
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Freedom, work and organizations in the 21st century: Freedom for whom and for whose purpose? Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Dirk Lindebaum, Frank den Hond, Michelle Greenwood, James A Chamberlain, Lynne Andersson
This article critically interrogates the meaning of freedom and its current and potential relationship with social relations in and around work as introduction to this special issue. This interrogation is vital given neoliberalism’s evaluative promise for more individual and corporate freedom, while concurrently limiting the conditions for the experience/expression of freedom of workers. Consequently
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EXPRESS: 21st Century Bridling: Non-disclosure agreements in cases of organizational misconduct Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Victoria Pagan
In this article I argue that non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) represent the latest in a continuum of tools used to silence women who seek justice for the misconduct of those in authority. I draw a connection between the use of these apparently objective, non-corporeal organizational processes and the historic use of the scold’s bridle, a corporeal instrument of control applied to physically silence
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EXPRESS: An ethnographic study of organizational performances in business services: space, staging and materiality Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Robert Cluley
It is said that all the world is a stage. But how do organizations physically stage performances, such as pitching for new business, presenting reports and entertaining clients? Drawing on a 14 month-long ethnographic study at a Fortune 500 strategic research company, this paper explains how. Emphasizing the active role of human and non-human actors, it uncovers three staging practices that an organization
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EXPRESS: City governance and visual impression management: visual semiotics and the Biccherna panels of Siena Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Jane Elizabeth Davison, Elena Giovannoni
A major preoccupation in the contemporary organizational landscape is governance and how to cope with conflict and uncertainty. These challenges are particularly evident in the governance of cities, with their complex histories, politics and administrative processes. We argue that visual artefacts can form powerful visual impression management, constituting ‘visual governance’, for dealing with such
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Editorial: Introducing the Special Issue to mark the 75th Anniversary of Human Relations Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Mark Learmonth
Landmark anniversaries tend to be occasions for reflection as well as for celebration. It was tempting, therefore, to celebrate the undoubtedly important and impressive heritage of the journal by reflecting upon Human Relations’ history and on its contribution to the academic community (and beyond) over the last 75 years. In the end though, I resisted the temptation to write at any length on the journal’s
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EXPRESS: ‘No decision is permanent!’: Achieving democratic revisability in alternative organizations through the affordances of new information and communication technologies Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Genevieve Denise Shanahan
It seems natural to understand organizational democracy as granting members of the organization the right to choose the rules that govern their actions. But what meaning does a rule have if one can choose to change rather than follow it? By investigating the understudied dimension of democracy I call revisability, this paper suggests that an organization’s rules can be meaningful – they can effectively
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EXPRESS: Spatializing gossip as chaotic and multiple liminal space Hum. Relat. (IF 5.658) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Yihan Liu, Ziyun Fan
How do we understand gossip as spatialization processes? How can we address such processes through liminal space? In this paper, we challenge the trap of social determinism in understanding gossip and argue that gossip should be conceptualized through the mutual constitution and contestations between social relations and space. We draw on a three-month participant observation case study to explore