Discussion: View Thread

I have a favor to ask of you, hoping you will accept my apologies for cross-postings.  Please help us disseminate the Call for Papers below; I hope it is of interest to you or other colleagues.  Best regards,

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Deadline for Proposal submissions: April 11^th, 2010

Human Resource Management in the New Economy

A book edited by: J.A. Fernández-Sánchez, S. de Juana-Espinosa, E. Manresa-Marhuenda, J. Valdes-Conca

Universidad de Alicante (Spain)

Introduction

Current times show the marks of a paradigm shift, that of a global economy in which the presence of the Internet is nothing short of pervasive. Businesses all around the world are thus faced with major challenges, related to the progressive (and many times unavoidable) incorporation of information technologies into their processes, using different tools and solutions. However, many organizations do not react to these environmental exigencies suitably. This problem often results in policies, practices, and strategies that may be outdated. 

Furthermore, we have to keep in mind that the profile of the employees has changed lately. Businesses have to consider them as a set of competences rather than merely "people". The competency models assist in developing abilities like adaptability, learning, and knowledge creating and sharing, since they consider both subjective and objective skills altogether, offering a much wider and more complex vision of a company's personnel. Thus, managing by competencies leads to excellence in work performance, and increases the inimitability and uniqueness of the organization's human resources, enhancing their value as source of sustainable advantage. Therefore, competency based E-human resource practices have the marks to become the leverage that many companies need to survive and succeed without resorting to hard, cost-cutting based measures.

Objective of the Book

Our goal is to publish a book that becomes a helpful reference for both practitioners and academics in order to design and implement e-Management and competency models in companies. The publication's purpose is to show present and future Human Resource practitioners how to boost the added value of people as a company asset by means of an adequate strategy. This book will present the impacts of integrated e-human resource policies, and provide some recommendations for addressing the shift from traditional Human Resource policies to a new economy perspective. 

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be a wide one: Human resource managers and external advisors because of the professional nature of the book; University lecturers, and other trainers on the topics of information systems, human resources management and "new economy" because of the educational contents of the book; and researchers and scholars specialized in adding value human resource management models, information systems for decision making processes that accelerate and sustain managerial, research on the so-called "new economy", etc. because of the documentary rigor and contribution to knowledge in various aspects of business management.

Suggested topics of interest

This call for chapters aims to collect all contributions that could support and strengthen these ideas by exposing and arguing their benefits in different Human Resource policies such as:

• Human Resource Planning
• Recruitment, Selection and Socialization
• Appraising and managing performance
• Training the workforce
• Motivation (developing careers, managing compensation, promotion...)
• Communication and Labour relations
• Decision making and Leadership
• Team-work and Virtual work
• Managing Organisational Change
• Grievance procedures and dispute resolution
• Bargaining
• Downsizing

Submissions procedure

Academics and practitioners are invited to submit before April 11, 2010, a 2-3 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 2^nd, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 30^th, 2010. All submitted chapters will be double-blind reviewed.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.

Important Dates

April 11^th, 2010:                               Proposal Submission Deadline         

May 2^nd, 2010:                                Notification of Acceptance

June 15, 2010:                                 Full Chapter Submission

August 30, 2010:                          Review Results Returned

October 30, 2010:                        Final Chapter Submission

November 30, 2010:                   Final Deadline

Editorial Advisory Board Members:

Dr. Mireia Valverde (Rovira i Vigili University, Spain)

Dr. Miguel R. Olivas-Luján (Clarion U of Pennsylvania & Tec de Monterrey, US & Mexico)

Dr. Juan Llopis (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

Dr. Lourdes Canós-Darós (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

Dr. Teresa Torres- Coronas, (Rovira i Vigili University, Spain)

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

Jose Antonio Fernandez-Sanchez (Jose.Fernandez@ua.es)

and/or: Susana de Juana-Espinosa (Susana.Espinosa@ua.es)