Colleagues might like to hear about a new journal with which I'm associated.
While the fields covered are, loosely, "training and
development" within and of organizations, articles written in a constructivist
/ constructionist are particularly welcome.
It's called _Human Resource Development International_; published by Routledge.
And in the fields of training, personal development,
organizational development, and change management it welcomes contributions
which challenge conventional distinctions: between theory
and practice; scholarship, profession, and practice; traditional and radical
methodological approaches.
Anyone with anything interesting (conceptual or empirically-based) to say about
personal, group-based, or organizational change; the provision for,
and management of, such change; the weasel concept of resistance to change;
matters of agency in change; is most welcome to submit
a) articles for blind reviewing: c.5000 words
b) articles about advanced practice: c. 2000 words
c) research-in-progress / innovative development projects: c.1000 words
d) "soap-box" articles, in which you argue the case on an issue you feel
strongly about: c.1000 words
e) book, video, software, and conference reviews; interviews with
scholars and practitioners
a) to d) above to me: Carole Elliott, Managing Editor, Management School,
Lancaster
University, Lancaster LA1 4YX, U.K.
e) above to our Reviews and Interviews Editor, Prof. Jean Woodall,
Kingston School of Management, Kingston University, Kingston-on-Thames,
Surrey KT2 7LB, U.K.
Acting Editor-in-Chief is Dr Devi Jankowicz, School of Business and Management,
University of Teesside, Flatts Lane, Normanby, Middlesbrough TS6 0QS, UK.
email:
devi@tees.ac.uk
As well as the more recognizably conventional business/management-flavoured
items you'd expect in an HRD journal,
articles submitted during its first 18 months have argued the case for anarchy
in organizations; explored the function of storytelling in
organizations; examined the Latin etymology of contemporary concepts of power
in organizations; reviewed some conceptualisations of emotional
labour and the "self" of the organization.
Anyone wishing to subscribe or interested in making a library recommendation:
please send me your snail-mail address by e-mail; I'll
send you a copy of the publisher's handout giving full particulars.
Carole Elliott