Human Relations

2018 Impact Factor: 3.367

2018 Ranking: 54/217 in Management | 3/104 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Source: Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2019)

volume 72 issue 11, November 2019

https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/human-relations

Human Relations addresses the social relations in and around work – across the levels of immediate
personal relationships, organizations and their processes, and wider political and economic systems.
It is international in its scope. The journal is grounded in critical social science that challenges
orthodoxies and questions current organizational structures and practices. It promotes
interdisciplinarity through studies that draw on more than one discipline or that engage critically
across disciplinary traditions. It deploys any social science method used in a rigorous manner. It
promotes studies that draw out the practical implication of their results in a manner consistent with
critical engagement with practice as opposed to advice to particular actors or groups.

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/human-relations

Human Relations by Laura Portolese-Dias addresses all of the critical topics to obtain
career success as they relate to professional relationships.
Knowing how to get along with others, resolve workplace conflict, manage relationships,
communicate well, and make good decisions are all critical skills all students need to
succeed in career and in life.
Human Relations is not an organizational behavior; rather, it provides a good baseline
of issues students will deal with in their careers on a day-to-day basis. It is also not a
professional communications, business English, or professionalism textbook, as its
focus is much broader — on general career success and how to effectively maneuver in
the workplace.
From communication challenges to focusing on one's own emotional intelligence, the
examples throughout Human Relations will help students understand the importance of
the human side in their career.
This book's easy-to-understand language and tone is written to convey practical
information in an engaging way. Every chapter opens with a realistic example which
introduces a concept to be explained in detail later. Each chapter contains relevant
examples, YouTube videos, figures, learning objectives, key takeaways, exercises, and
a chapter-ending case that offer different ways to promote learning. Many of the end-of-
section exercises offer self-assessment quizzes, so students may engage in self-
understanding and development.
Knowing how to get along with others, resolve workplace conflict, manage relationships,
communicate well, and make good decisions are all critical emotional intelligence skills students
need to succeed in career and in life.

Access to information – and its constraints

Access to information is critical for enabling citizens to exercise their voice, to

effectively monitor and hold government to account, and to enter into informed
dialogue about decisions which affect their lives. It is seen as vital for empowering all
citizens, including vulnerable and excluded people, to claim their broader rights and
entitlements. But the potential contribution to good governance of access to
information lies in both the willingness of government to be transparent, as well as the
ability of citizens to demand and use information – both of which may be constrained
in low capacity settings. A key question in this regard is: To what extent can access to
information, and government transparency, advance the claims of poor and
marginalised groups and make governments accountable?

Many commentators caution that access to information does not necessarily lead to
greater citizen participation, state accountability and state responsiveness. In many
developing countries, there are real structural and political barriers which hinder both
the capacity and incentives of governments to produce information, and the ability of
citizens to claim their right to information and to use it to demand better governance
and public services.