About the Journal
British Journal of Human Resource and Leadership (BJHRL) is published by Academy of Social Scientific And Applied Research (ASSAAR) Journals. ASSAAR is a unique global forum that brings together people from across the world to discuss the key issues relating to the essential information resource for today’s human resource managers and distil the most topical human resource management issues and relevant implications for HR personnel out of the cutting-edge research.
Also, the Leadership and Organization Development examines the body of management theory around leadership and organizations in order to discover new, more effective ways of managing in organizations. The Journal explores the practical of leadership and organization development theory in order to identify its relevance for managerial practice.
Public and private sector organizations alike face ongoing pressure to streamline activities, improve efficiency and achieve demanding organizational objectives. In this context, the ability of senior managers to understand the culture and dynamics of organizations and to deliver strong leadership during periods of change could be the difference between organizational failure and success.
The objective of ASSAAR is to promote the exchange of knowledge, experience, information and ideas among academicians, scholars, professionals, policy & decision makers, industry, executives and students to improve the mutual understanding of the aspects of business, role of entrepreneurship and management in achieving sustainable development all over the world.
Aims
ASSAAR aims as a forum for academics, practitioners and policymakers from around the world to exchange concepts, research, and best practices about human resource management and leadership. The journal aims to integrate the study of these disciplines to achieve best practices and skills which helps to stimulate debate amongst scholars, researchers, practitioners and policymakers across the world with a view to defining common, effective responses to tomorrow’s challenges. Human resource management literature is enjoying a boom period. It isn’t feasible for interested parties to read every journal and article specializing in important aspects of the subject.
We regularly present case studies of the implementation of human resource strategies in organizations of varying sizes, ranging from SMEs to multinational corporations.All articles are presented in an easy-to-digest format for human resource managers and researchers to gain a quick insight into the main issues affecting organizations today.
ASSAAR encourages Guest Editors to submit proposals for Special Issues addressing specific issue(s) of the broad theme of the journal or resulting from relevant conferences. ASSAAR will also consider themed special issues with a focus on a particular country or a region.
Scope
- It is international in scope and intended for broad international audiences. It solicits articles, teaching materials, reviews, comments, and responses from scholars, educators, practicing leaders, consultants, students, and others around the world. It values a new shared, transnational, dispersed conception of leadership wherein all people in all nations can understand and exercise leadership.
- It strongly encourages and supports mavericks who have the courage to challenge taken-for-granted and embedded ways of understanding, researching, teaching, developing, and practicing leadership, and who have the perspicacity and the imagination to envision fresh concepts, theories, practices, and pedagogical strategies.
- It is one of only a few online leadership journals offered at no charge to readers. Its accessibility is consistent with the global movement to make leadership knowledge and/or practice available to increasingly wide populations at all levels and in all sectors of society around the world.
Distinctive Features
The journal’s quality content will help HR managers define and manage human resource strategies within organizations.
- Keep abreast of new thinking, trends and developments in HRM
- Save valuable management time by accessing the best management research through easy-to-digest reviews
- Be up to speed and in a position to implement important concepts quickly
- Track the success or failure of HR strategies undertaken by other companies of varying sizes and in different business sectors
- Read the current ideas from some of the best HR thinkers today
- Keep up to date with employment legislation
- Provide a high quality, inclusive, ongoing, online forum for the consideration of leadership research, education, and practice, with the end of making a positive difference for leaders, organizations, and human life around the world;
- Offer new, innovative, provocative, and even controversial perspectives that can potentially contribute to unique directions in the field of leadership studies, advance knowledge in the field, or re-conceptualize leadership or leadership studies in part or entirely;
- Promote integrative perspectives for leadership and leadership studies – interdisciplinary; international; inter-organizational; open to multiple theoretical and epistemological perspectives, and to multiple research methodologies, as well as to their interaction; inclusive of multiple contexts (organizational, social, cultural, political, aesthetic, technological), multiple sectors (e.g., business, nonprofit, government, education, military), multiple situations (e.g., new or established organizations, small or large organizations, networks, social movements, activist associations), and their common and distinct leadership issues.
Publishes
- Original and applied research which critically examines the inter-relationship between the natural, the governmental, the economic and the social dimensions of our world and how human resource management and leadership can contribute to solutions.
- Fundamental and applied research on all aspects of HR and Leadership aspects
- Explores behavioral and managerial issues relating to all aspects of leadership, and of individual and organization development, from a global perspective.
- General and technical reviews of topical and/or controversial subjects which inform and stimulate debate.
- Conceptual or case studies which highlight the role of leadership, organizational behavior to attain continuous development in organization.
- Literature review or viewpoint on a particular topic or trend.
Editorial Criteria
- The journal supports interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of leadership and human resource management and encourages original thinking which will contribute to knowledge and understanding in these areas.
- Articles based on empirical work are strongly encouraged, as are conceptual papers which are founded on a strong literature base and which provide a basis for theoretical development to advance the field.
- There is no methodological preference: papers on the continuum from quantitative data-based studies to qualitative case studies are equally welcome.
- The journal’s focus is on the interpretation of research and how the results of research may be translated into practice.
Key Journal Audiences
- Human resource professionals
- Personnel and training managers
- Researchers
- Academics
- Human resource consultants
- Company directors
- Educators involved in teaching or supervising research
- Professionals with strategic decision-making responsibility in organizations
Subject coverage includes
The journal addresses a broad range of topics which are relevant to organizations and reflective of societal developments. Papers can address topics theoretically or empirically through either a descriptive or critical approach. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Developing HRM strategies
- Employment law
- Managing employees in mergers and acquisitions
- Recruitment policies
- Selection Policies
- Training and Development
- Strategic HR
- HRD
- Employee retention strategies
- Compensation and benefits
- Managing employees during times of change
- Promoting leadership and succession planning
- Employee development strategies
- Policy initiatives
- Worker rights, benefits and responsibilities
- Employee-management relations
- Strategic planning and allocation
- Education and training
- Recruitment and work practices
- Professional development and leadership
- Cultural, cross-cultural and gender issues
- Role of the unions and their impact on organizational productivity and worker satisfaction
- Worker employability and transferability of skills
- Wage and incentive aspects of employment
- Worker retirement issues
- Impact of technology on human resources practices
- Employees as a source of innovation and creation
- Leadership Roles and strategies
- Leadership skills
- Types of Leaders and Leadership Styles
- Leadership and organizational development
- Leadership and culture
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Indexing & Abstracting
British Journal of Human Resource and Leadership (BJHRL) is available as part of an online subscription to the ASSAAR Journals. For more information, please email submissions@assaar.co.uk or bjhrl@assaar.co.uk or visit the Submission Page on the website.
Editor in Chief: Dr. Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa