Dear Colleagues,
Below you will find the JBP March Table of Contents, Call for Papers, and 2014 Annual Report. I believe you will find it interesting and informative. Hope you can give it a quick read.
Best regards
Digging Through Dust: Historiography for the Organizational Sciences
Michael J. Zickar
What Makes Us Enthusiastic, Angry, Feeling at Rest or Worried? Development and Validation of an Affective Work Events Taxonomy Using Concept Mapping Methodology
Sandra Ohly & Antje Schmitt
The Value of a Smile: Does Emotional Performance Matter More in Familiar or Unfamiliar Exchanges?
Allison S. Gabriel, Jennifer D. Acosta & Alicia A. Grandey
What Do You Want To Be? Criterion-Related Validity of Attained Vocational Aspirations Versus Inventoried Person–Vocation Fit
Bernd Marcus & Uwe Wagner
Building and Sustaining Proactive Behaviors: The Role of Adaptivity and Job Satisfaction
Karoline Strauss, Mark A. Griffin, Sharon K. Parker & Claire M. Mason
Examining Applicant Reactions to the Use of Social Networking Websites in Pre-Employment Screening
J. William Stoughton, Lori Foster Thompson & Adam W. Meade
Situational Strength as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: A Meta-Analytic Examination
Nathan A. Bowling, Steve Khazon, Rustin D. Meyer & Carla J. Burrus
Social Influence and Leader Perceptions: Multiplex Social Network Ties and Similarity in Leader–Member Exchange
Thomas J. Zagenczyk, Russell L. Purvis, Mindy K. Shoss, Kristin L. Scott & Kevin S. Cruz
The Effects of Unconsciously Derived Affect on Task Satisfaction and Performance
Xiaoxiao Hu & Seth Kaplan
Intervening Mechanisms Between Personality and Turnover: Mediator and Suppressor Effects
Emily M. David & Courtney L. Holladay
Empowered Employees as Social Deviants: The Role of Abusive Supervision
Jeremy D. Mackey, Rachel E. Frieder, Pamela L. Perrewé, Vickie C. Gallagher & Robert A. Brymer
A Dynamic Approach to Fairness: Effects of Temporal Changes of Fairness Perceptions on Job Attitudes
Tae-Yeol Kim, Xiao-Wan Lin & Kwok Leung
The Moderating Influence of Perceived Organizational Values on the Burnout-Absenteeism Relationship
Geneviève Jourdain & Denis Chênevert
Sex as a Moderator of the Relationships Between Predictor Variables and Counterproductive Work Behavior
Nathan A. Bowling & Gary N. Burns
Call for Papers:
21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Workplace
Special Section Guest Editors:
Kevin R. Murphy, Colorado State University
Samuel Greiff, University of Luxembourg
Christoph Niepel, University of Luxembourg
This call for papers reflects the rapidly growing need for skills such as complex problem solving, creativity, self-direction, teamwork, or work ethic (i.e., 21st century skills) that enable working citizens to cope with the demands of an increasingly complex workplace. It aims at gathering innovative manuscripts that will advance our knowledge on the nature, measurement, implications, interrelationships, and distributions of a number of skills particularly relevant to the 21st century workplace. Submitted manuscripts may fall into one of three categories: (1) research on the utility of 21st century skills and incremental contributions relative to well-studied constructs such as general cognitive ability; (2) research on the assessment of these 21st century skills; and (3) research on interventions aiming at developing 21st century skills. Only original empirical research will be considered for this Special Section. Suitable manuscripts should target cognitive and noncognitive 21st century skills at the workplace. A more detailed version of the Call for Papers can be found at
Interested authors should prepare a proposal (1000 words max.) that describes the paper they intend to submit. The proposal can be sent directly to Kevin Murphy by email (
krm10@me.com) by May 6, 2015. Each proposal will receive feedback within 4 weeks and full manuscripts will be due November 30, 2015. Details are provided in the full call for papers.
Annual Report
In 2014 we received near 425 new submissions. This does not include proposals/papers handled outside the system given special features. We also had 136 revisions come in for 2014. This was a record. So, overall, the journal was very busy.
Upon receiving a paper, average time to reviewer invitation is just 1.4 days.
Reviewer accepts review invitation, on average, in just over 2 days.
Reviewers, on average, completed their review in 35.5 days.
Majority of reviews turned in early, on average, by 13 days (record).
For 2014 we had 53 accepted articles. Some of these may have started in 2012. Thus, it is always tricky to calculate a clean acceptance rate for a journal in any particular year. Our acceptance rate was approximately 12%.
Of the papers that go under review (so this ignores desk rejects), it looks like 70% are not accepted and 30% get R&Rs by the acting editor. This seems like a good balance to me.
The average total time to decision (this adds in action editor decision making time) for papers not accepted is 72 days and for R&Rs it is 83 days. We are keeping our commitment to authors to turnaround papers in 90 days.
Of first R&Rs received, 23% received major revision decisions, 47% received minor revision decisions, and 29% were not accepted. So, R&Rs are meeting with good success.
Our 2 year impact factor is 1.54. Our five year impact factor flew up to 2.37 (from 1.7). This is a major increase and such good news. Another piece of good news, we had only 7 self-cites to years used in impact factor calculations. So, clearly our impact factor is not being inflated/manipulated. For context, in 2009 our impact factor was .44.