PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY
THE STUDY OF PEOPLE AT WORK
Special Issue Call for Papers:
The Global Context and People at Work
Special Issue Editors:
Maria L. Kraimer, University of Iowa
Riki Takeuchi, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Michael Frese, National University of Singapore and University of Lueneburg
With the rapidly increasing globalization of business, more and more people are required to perform their work within a global context. This means more people are required to interact with others from around the world in order to perform their jobs (i.e., more people are engaged in global work experiences). Global work experiences can range from having virtual interactions with international colleagues or customers to living and working in a foreign country as an expatriate manager or professional. Although considerable research has been conducted on a variety of cross-cultural management topics, including but not limited to expatriate issues, we still know very little about how organizations can effectively manage people involved in global work or how global work impacts these individuals. Thus, this special issue aims to provide a platform to present scholarly research that contributes to understanding how global experiences/contexts impact people at work.
For the purposes of this special issue, we define global work experiences/contexts broadly to include any job-related activities that involve interacting with people from other countries. Examples include interacting with customers in foreign countries; working in cross-national teams; leading global teams; working in a foreign country for a short-term assignment; having extensive international travel requirements; and living and working in a foreign country for extended periods of time (whether self-initiated or corporate-initiated).
Original empirical research, theory development, meta-analytic reviews, and narrative literature reviews are all potentially appropriate for inclusion in the special issue. A number of topic areas that are commonly addressed by Personnel Psychology are potentially relevant to global work experiences/contexts. This includes topics within the human resource management and organizational behavior domains. The following are illustrative topics that are consistent with the spirit of the special issue, but other topics may be suitable as well:
· Managing cross-cultural teams or global virtual teams.
· Cultural diversity issues.
· Interacting with the global customer (e.g., emotional labor and customer service; cultural differences in customer service attitudes).
· How organizations can effectively manage people within and across cultures.
· Cultural differences and leadership styles.
· Defining, developing, and/or assessing global leadership competencies/experiences.
· Selecting employees for jobs requiring global experiences.
· Impact of frequent international travel on an individual's family, health, or work outcomes.
· Coping strategies for dealing with the stress of international experience (travel or other types of global work experiences).
· Cultural differences that may influence different human resource systems, including job analysis, selection, training, performance management, and work design.
· Global work experiences and career choices, outcomes, and attitudes.
· Impact of global (work, travel, and other) experiences on work-family issues.
· Managing (short-term or long-term) international assignments.
· Global experiences' impact on the way individuals perceive themselves and how they interact with others.
· Relationships between organizational culture/climate and national culture.
Submission Process and Timeline
To be considered for the special issue, manuscripts must be submitted no later than December 31, 2011, 5:00 U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Papers may be submitted prior to this deadline as well. Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process and will be evaluated by at least two reviewers and a special issue editor. The final acceptance is contingent on the review team's judgments of the paper's contribution on four key dimensions:
(1) Theoretical contribution: Does the article offer new and innovative ideas and insights or meaningfully extend existing theory?
(2) Empirical contribution: Does the article offer new and unique findings and is the study design, data analysis, and results rigorous and appropriate in testing the hypotheses or research questions?
(3) Practical contribution: Does the article contribute to the improved management of people in organizations?
(4) Contribution to the special issue topic.
Authors should prepare their manuscripts for blind review according to the directions provided in the 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Be sure to remove any information that may potentially reveal the identity of the authors to the review team.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ppsych
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