Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 32, 13 (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/job.

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Editorial

Its all about the people: Best papers and thanks

NEAL M. ASHKANASY*
UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia

At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st Century and JOBs 32nd Volume, it is appropriate to reect on what has been achieved in the centurys rst decade. While we do not live in the world envisaged by Stanley Kubric in his 1968 science ction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, it is certainly a different world to the one we lived in 10 years ago. The decade will be remembered for the events of September 11, 2001 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, but many other things have changed fundamentally as well. In particular, it is most characterized by the relentless advance of technology and globalization. There is, however, one aspect of life that remains constant. This is that the world we live in is dened by the activities of one species, homo sapiens, the people. As a consequence, no understanding of any phenomenon can be complete without an understanding of the human emotions, cognitions, and behavior that underlie it. This dictum applies just as much in hard disciplines like engineering and technology as it does in the social sciences, as National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) learned from the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster of February 1, 2003 (Starbuck & Farjoun, 2005). Indeed, my own motivation from switching from a career in engineering to the study of behavior in organizations was motivated by this realization (see Ashkanasy, 2007). Consequently, scholarly interest in the study of organizational behavior continues to burgeon. As I noted in my editorial at the end of JOBs third decade (Ashkanasy, 2009: 18), there is much going on in the eld of OB at present. The eld is already hot, and is liable to get hotter. In support of this contention, submissions to JOB in 2010 so far (i.e., as I write this) are already approaching the 2009 record of 614, despite my warning at the beginning of the year (Ashkanasy, 2010: 1) that, Publishing today is more difcult than ever. With so many submissions coming in, I am often asked, Well, isnt this just because more academics are encouraged to submit to high visibility journals like JOB? and, Doesnt this mean that quality must be dropping? But, as I noted in Ashkanasy (2010), this is not the case at all. Although it is true that scholars worldwide are being encouraged to submit their work to A journals, the quality of submissions to JOB is in fact rising, rather than dropping off. For instance, the number of submissions that rely on single-sitting, self-report questionnaire data is decreasing as the message to the effect that such studies will no longer be published in this journal gets out. Moreover, submissions that elicit a desk-reject note from me advising authors to learn the basics of planning, conducting, and reporting research are now close to extinction.
* Correspondence to: Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. E-mail: n.ashkanasy@uq.edu.au

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EDITORIAL

Best Paper Award

At the other end of the scale, and reecting our focus on quality, JOB reintroduced a Best Paper Award for Volume 30 (2009). The selection committee was chaired by Associate Editor Boris B. Baltes and ve board members: Stephen M. Jex, Debra A. Major, Christian J. Resick, Robert R. Sinclair, and Amanuel G. Tekleab. After considering the 54 research articles published in JOB in 2009, the committee selected nine nominees: Binnewies, Sonnentag, and Mojza (2009); Chau, Dahling, Levy, and Diefendorff (2009); Gonzalez and DeNisi (2009); Jones (2009); Joshi, Pandey, and Han (2009); Lavelle et al. (2009); Ng and Feldman (2009); Schaufeli, Bakker, and Van Rhenen (2009); and van Steenbergen and Ellemers (2009). The award for the best paper published in JOB in Volume 30 (2009) went to van Steenbergen and Ellemers (2009). The committees citation for this impressive paper read: This article provides a two-study empirical examination of work-family conict and work-family facilitation, and their implications for employee health and job performance. In Study 1, the authors found that support for the idea that work-family and family-work facilitation is differentially related to a series of objective employee health indictors (e.g., cholesterol level, physical stamina, and bodymass index). Study 2 replicated and extended the Study 1s ndings using longitudinal data. In addition, the authors found in Study 2 that work-family and family-work facilitation are differentially related to objectively measured facets of employee job performance. This article was chosen for three reasons. First, its ndings make an important contribution to workfamily theory and research by indicating that support is related to enhanced employee performance. Second, the authors used novel research methods in a longitudinal design based on objective health indices and performance measures. Third, the article addressed the interface of employees and their employing organization. On behalf of the whole JOB community, I congratulate all the authors of the nominated articles for their ne work and to thank them for their support of JOB. Many thanks must also go to the selection committee for completing a very difcult task.

Thank You for Your Continuing Support

In summary, the past year was another good one for JOB. We launched the much heralded Reviewers Notebook series (see Wright & Bonett, 2010); published two Special Issues, The emerging positive agenda (Issue Wright & Quick, 2010) and New directions for boundaryless careers (Issue 5: Tams & Arthur, 2010); continued the popular Incubator series; acknowledged our best paper authors and reviewers; and continued to be regarded as a top-tier journal internationally. I thank the whole JOB team for their contributions: Publisher Wiley-Blackwell; senior editor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro; managing editor Kaylene Ascough; associate editors Boris B. Baltes, Terry A. Beehr, Mark Fichman, Mark J. Martinko, Suzanne S. Masterson, Raymond A. Noe, Mark F. Peterson, Paul E. Spector, Dean W. Tjosvold, Kerrie Unsworth, Daan van Knippenberg, and Thomas A. Wright; special issue guest editors Michael B. Arthur, Douglas B. Bonett, Svenja Tams, and Thomas A. Wright; board members, ad hoc reviewers (see Vol. 31, Issue 8 for a complete list), and especially authors. I also thank all the hopeful authors who submitted their work to the journal in the past year and, last but not least, the readers of JOB. As per the title to this editorial, It is all about the people. I look forward to your continuing support in 2011.
Copyright # 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. J. Organiz. Behav. 32, 13 (2011) DOI: 10.1002/job

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Author biography
Neal M. Ashkanasy received his Ph.D. in Social/Organizational Psychology from the University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research areas include leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations. He has published in the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Management. He is Editor-inChief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Associate Editor of Emotion Review, and Series CoEditor of Research on Emotion in Organizations.

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J. Organiz. Behav. 32, 13 (2011) DOI: 10.1002/job