South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management
Human Resource Management
South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (SAJHRM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly outlet for publications on HRM in and out of South Asia. It includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Before submission, please ensure that your paper is related to one of these eight countries.
SAJHRM is the only journal that focuses exclusively on HRM in South Asia. Human capital is at once the biggest asset and challenge for this region, and the journal is uniquely placed to address academic research and practice aspects in HRM. Accordingly, a key aim of the journal is to focus on HR issues, challenges and strategies in the region. We encourage potential authors to explore broader implications of their scholarly views and findings on the region as a whole.
The journal is published twice a year. With over 500 submissions/year, currently, our acceptance rate is about 10 per cent. To have a better chance of acceptance, your paper should address an innovative and contemporary HR topic, be contextualised within South Asia, professionally written and edited. Apart from theory, the journal pays significant attention to how HRM is practiced in and out of South Asia. More than statistically driven, purely organisational behaviour-focused topics, the journal prefers papers that directly address HR policy and practice. The journal features conceptual and empirical research papers, research notes, interviews, case studies and book reviews. We also welcome proposals for special issues. Typically, we complete the initial desk review within 3 weeks, and the first-round peer review within 3 months.
SAJHRM has a distinguished panel of advisory board members, reputed board of peer reviewers and a dedicated editorial team. Professor Dave Ulrich, a well-known HR academic, says ‘I have been privileged to serve on the editorial board of SAJHRM since its inception and I have been honoured to publish here. There are many high-quality academic outlets for innovative ideas, but this journal is clearly emerging as one of them’.
SAJHRM is listed in several journal rankings around the world, including SCOPUS, ABDC and ABS. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (SAJHRM) is a peer-reviewed scholarly outlet for publications broadly focusing on the theory and practice of managing human resources for the benefit of individuals, firms and the community at large in South Asia. The journal also considers research from other related management disciplines as long as one of the key aims of the manuscript is to improve scholarly and practical understanding on how to harness the potential of human capital in South Asia.
Considering the varied economic and human development across the South Asian region, the journal encourages potential authors to explore the broader implications of their theoretical/conceptual views and empirical findings on the region as a whole. Thus, apart from seeking strong theoretical contributions, a distinguishing feature of the journal is its emphasis on the practice of human resource management in South Asia.
To be considered for publication, a manuscript must satisfy two key criteria:
a) The research should contextualize or embed the focus on managing people at the firm, regional, national and international levels within one or more South Asian countries including members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Therefore, research that simply draws or samples data from a South Asian country without displaying a sufficient effort to either embed or develop key constructs within the work, employment, management, organizational context or specific human resource issues, challenges, and strategies in that country or the South Asia region would not be recommended.
b) The research should include theoretically developed hypotheses/propositions, arguments/logic, or critical reviews focused on innovative and contemporary human resource topics relating to human resource policy and practice as well as exhibit significant effort to discuss human resource policy/practice insights and implications for practitioners. Therefore, papers focused purely on conducting a general examination or statistically-driven analysis of organizational behavior constructs would be less preferred.
The journal welcomes submission of manuscripts that satisfy the above criteria in a wide variety of formats including conceptual/theoretical and empirical research papers, research notes, interviews, case studies and book reviews.
| Mohan Thite | Griffith University, Australia |
| Debashish Roy | Human Resources Consultant |
| Upamali Amarkoon | Senior Lecturer in HRM/Management, School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia |
| Alka Gupta | Affiliate, Bernard M. and Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies, State University of New York, USA |
| Amlan Haque | School of Business and Law, CQUniversity, Sydney, Australia |
| Mevan Jayasinghe | Associate Professor, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
| Monowar Mahmood | Bang College of Business, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Ranjeet Nambudiri | Professor, IIM Indore, India |
| Richa Saxena | Associate Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India |
| Uthpala Senarathne Tennakoon | Associate Professor, Human Resources, Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University, Canada |
| Ilan Alon | Professor of Strategy and International Marketing, School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway |
| Jyotsna Bhatnagar | Chairperson - Post Graduate Program in HR, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India |
| Anthony P D'Costa | Eminent Scholar, Global Studies; Professor, College of Business, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, US |
| Md Musharrof Hossain | Founder President, Federation of Bangladesh Human Resource Management (FBHRO) and Past President, Asia Pacific Federation of Human Resources Management (APFHRM) |
| Iyanatul Islam | Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia |
| Janaka Kumarasinghe | Director Kent Ridge HR Consultants, (Past President IPM), Sri Lanka |
| Santrupt Misra | CEO, Carbon Black Business and Director, Group Human Resources, Aditya Birla Group, India |
| Jamal Nasir | President, Pakistan Society for Human Resources Management & Head of Human and Organizational Development, Habib Bank Limited (HBL), Pakistan |
| Sasmita Palo | Tata Institute of Social Sciences,(TISS), Mumbai, India |
| Sumita Raghuram | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| T V Rao | Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad (IIMA) & Chairman, TV Rao Learning Systems P/L, India |
| E S Srinivas | Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India |
| Vasanthi Srinivasan | Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India |
| Phil Taylor | Professor of Work and Employment Studies, Associate Dean International, University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Dave Ulrich | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan & Partner, RBL Group, USA |
| Adrian Wilkinson | Griffith University, Australia & University of Sheffield, UK |
| Arosha Adikaram | University of Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Upasna A Agarwal | National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India |
| Tanuja Agarwala | University of Delhi, India |
| Ekundayo Akinlade | Saint Xavier University, USA |
| Munira Amidkhonova | University of Central Asia, Khorog, Tajikistan |
| Amitabh Anand | SKEMA Business School, France |
| Sandip Anand | XIMB, India |
| Mayuri Atapattu | University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Mohammad Azim | King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia |
| Gary Chaison | Clark University, United States |
| Lakshman Chandrashekhar | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Tamgid Chowdhury | Associate Professor School of Business and Economics, North South University, Bangladesh |
| Yunhyung Chung | University of Idaho, USA |
| Gordon Cooke | Memorial University of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| Sangita De | Department Employment Relations & Human Resources, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia |
| Sulakshana De Alwis | NSBM Green University, Homagama, Sri Lanka |
| Rohit Dwivedi | Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, India |
| Tehreem Fatima | Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan |
| Dianne P Ford | Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada |
| Neha Gangwar | (GGSIPU) Periyar Management and Computer College, India |
| Vishal Gupta | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Sami Jabarkhail | Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA |
| Aman Jain | Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur, India |
| Lalatendu Kesari Jena | Xavier University Bhubaneswar, India |
| Rotumba Arachchige Ishanka Chathurani Karunarathne | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
| Navaneethakrishnan Kengatharan | University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
| Md Asaduzzaman Khan | Buckinghamshire New University, Buckinghamshire, UK |
| Muhammad Burdbar Khan | Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England |
| Saroj Koul | O P Jindal Global University, India |
| Payal Kumar | Professor (OB/HR), BML Munjal University, India |
| Djamel Eddine Laouisset | Nottingham Business School, UK |
| Monowar Mahmood | Bang College of Business, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Ashish Malik | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Laxmikant Manroop | Eastern Michigan University, USA |
| Khasro Miah | North South University, Bangladesh |
| Daisy Mui Hung Mui Hung Kee | Universiti Saind Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia |
| Zubair Nawaz | Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China |
| Mousumi Padhi | Xavier University, India |
| Dinithi Padmasiri | University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka |
| Harold Andrew Patrick | Jain (Deemed-To-Be University), Bangalore, India |
| Snigdha Pattnaik | Xavier University Bhubaneswar, India |
| Subhra Pattnaik | Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India |
| Murugan Pattusamy | University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India |
| J K S Chrisangika Perera | Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, Belihuloya, Balangoda, Sri Lanka |
| Tracy Porter | Cleveland State University, United States |
| Sunil Kumar Ramdas | Jain University, Bangalore, India |
| Sunita Rani | Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India |
| Srinivasa Rao | Professor, ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad |
| Mohamed Razi | University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka |
| Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano | University of Valencia, Spain |
| T T Rajan Selvarajan | California State University, East Bay, United States |
| Aloysius Sequeira | National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India |
| Mohamed M Shamil | University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka |
| Taimur Sharif | ALHOSN University, UAE |
| Sonal Shree | Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India |
| Samir Shrivastava | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Anupam Singh | National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India |
| Satvir Singh | Angelo State University, USA |
| Shruti Tewari | Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India |
| Nachiketa Tripathi | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India |
| George Tsogas | University of Buckingham, UK |
| Lhawang Ugyel | ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Prajya R Vidyarthi | University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Veena Vohra | Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, (NMIMS), Mumbai, India |
| Chung-Jen Wang | National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
| Lin Xiu | University of Minnesota Duluth, United States |
Submission Guidelines for South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management
South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management is hosted on SAGE Peer Review, a web based online submission and peer review system. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then visit https://peerreview.sagepub.com/sajhrm to login and submit your article online.
- All editorial correspondence should be addressed to sajhrm@sagepub.in
- Articles submitted to SAJHRM should be original unpublished work and should not be under consideration for publication anywhere else.
- The corresponding author will receive a link for the copyright form once a contribution is accepted for publication. The submission will be considered as final once the author submits the copyright form.
- Please submit a blinded text file for your manuscript. Articles should be written in MS Word, Times New Roman font, and should be electronically submitted at https://peerreview.sagepub.com/sajhrm.
Format of Manuscripts:
Research Articles
This section contains full-length research articles, both conceptual and empirical, including papers submitted for special issues. The word limit for manuscripts is between 6,000 to 9,000 words. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words and up to six keywords. All the manuscripts submitted for this section will undergo double blind review process after being vetted by the Editor-in-Chief.
Practitioner Perspectives
This section includes:
- ‘interviews’ with senior HR/General Management practitioners and policy makers
- HR practice oriented ‘commentaries/essays/research notes/case studies’ by HR academics/practitioners and
- ‘Current Affairs in HR’ (Analytical reviews of events and management trends that are of significance to HRM in South Asia)
The word limit is between 2,000 to 5,000 words. The submissions for this section will not be subject to double blind review process but will be vetted jointly by the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor (Practitioner Perspectives).
Book Reviews
Critical reviews of HR/Management related books, preferably with particular reference to South Asian countries. The word limit is between 1,000 to 2,000 words. The submissions for this section will not be subject to double blind review process but will be vetted jointly by the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor (Book Reviews).
In addition to the above sections, authors are also encouraged to submit proposals to the Editor-in-Chief as guest editors for “Special Issues” on topics of relevance to the journal.
Manuscript Submission:
Each submission should include:
A cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief in which the author(s) need to indicate the section to which the submission belongs to, the title of the manuscript, abstract and author information (names, affiliation, address, phone number, fax number and email). The name of the corresponding author should be clearly identified with an asterisk symbol (*) next to the relevant author’s name. The cover letter should also include three suggested referees (name, affiliation and email address) whom the authors think are best suited to conduct the review of the paper being submitted. While the suggested referees will be taken into account, the final decision rests with the editorial team. It is also expected that submitting authors undertake to act as reviewers for the journal (up to a maximum of three papers per year). Therefore, ‘each’ submitting author should clearly indicate up to three HRM disciplinary areas from the following list in their cover letter that they consider as their areas of expertise and hence willing to review papers in those areas: HR Planning, Recruitment & Selection, Learning & Development, Performance Management, Remuneration & Reward Management, Employment/Industrial Relations (ER/IR), HR Strategy, International HRM, HR Technology (e-HRM), Occupational Health & Safety (OHS), Career Management, HR Metrics, HR Roles, HR & Emerging Markets, HR & Cross-Cultural Management, HR & Knowledge Management, HR & Leadership, HR & Ethics/ Corporate Social Responsibility, HR & Sectoral Differentiation (Manufacturing/ Services; Public/Private; Profit/Non-Profit, Large/SMEs), HRM Education, Future of HR.
A “blind” copy of the manuscript by deleting author identification. The manuscript should include title, abstract, keywords, manuscript text and references. Figures and tables (if any) should be placed at the end of the manuscript in camera-ready form and their placement in the text should be marked with the words ‘Insert Figure/Table No. X about here’. Figures and Tables may also be submitted as a separate document.
All the manuscripts should:
- be in Microsoft Word Format (doc or docx)
- double spaced with one inch (2.5 cms) margin throughout
- use 12 inch Times New Roman font
- use British spellings
Submission of a manuscript to SAJHRM expressly implies that the paper has not been published elsewhere and that it is not under consideration by another publication. If the work is officially sponsored, it should have been released for publication by the sponsoring organisation.
Reference Styles:
References should be indicated in the main text by the name of the author and the year of the publication (for example, “According to Sharma (1982) .... This is supported by other studies (Smith & Watson, 1981; Wilson, 1983).”
All references within the text are to be placed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order and should conform to the referencing style recommended in the 6th edition of American Psychological Association (APA).
Use double quotes throughout. Single quotes only to be used within double quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 40 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
Use 'twentieth century', '1980s'. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimised, but used consistently.
When directly quoting from a work, include the page number in the citation (e.g., Sharma, 2008, p. 35).
The detailed style of referencing is as follows:
Journal Article
Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5–13. Doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx.
Book
Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Article in an edited book
O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B.R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123). New York: Springer.
Conference Proceedings
Schnase, J. L., & Cunnius, E. L. (Eds). (1995). Proceedings from CSCL '95: The First International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Article from the web
Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved Month, Date, Year, from http:/www.alistapart.com/articles
Newspaper Article
Schultz, S. (2005, December 28). Calls made to strengthen state energy policies. The Country Today, pp. 1A, 2A
Citation styles:
One Work by One Author: (Walker, 2000)
One Work by Multiple Authors: (Walker & Wasserstein, 2000)
One Work by Three, Four or Five Authors: Cite all the authors the first time the reference occurs, for example, (Vecchio, Hearn, & Southey, 1996); then for subsequent citations: (Vecchio et al., 1996)
One Work by Six or more Authors: (Rodgers et al., 1992)
Works with No Author: Cite the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title) and the year, for example, ('Study Finds', 1982).
Two or More Works by Different authors in One Citation: (Balda, 1980; Kamil, 1988; Pepperberg & Funk, 1990)
Two or More Works by the Same Author(s) in One Citation: (Edeline & Weinberger, 1991, 1993)
Two or More Works Published in the Same Year by the Same Author(s): (Johnson, 1991a, 1991b, 1991c)
Authors with the Same Last Name: To prevent confusion, use initials with the last names: (E. Johnson, 2001; L. Johnson, 1998)
Work discussed in secondary source: In the text, name the original work, and give a citation for the secondary source. For example, if Seidenberg and McClelland's work is cited in Coltheart et al. and you did not read the original work, list the Coltheart et al. reference in the References. In the text, use the following citation: In Seidenberg and McClelland's study (year as cited in Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993).
Review & Publication Process
Once submitted, a manuscript goes through the following stages.
- The Editor-in-Chief first conducts the desk review of the manuscript to check whether there is an obvious reason to reject it, for example, if it does not fit well with the aims and scope of SAJHRM.
- Once the preliminary checks are done, the manuscript is passed on to the relevant Associate Editor to initiate the peer-review process which usually takes 4-6 weeks, but may take longer time in some cases. SAJHRM follows a typical double-blind review process, meaning that the author does not get to know who reviews the manuscript and similarly, the reviewer does not know who wrote it.
- Depending upon the reviewers’ recommendations, the manuscript is accepted or rejected or, most likely, rewriting suggestions are given to the author by the Editor-in-Chief, who then modifies the manuscript as per the requirement and sends a revised manuscript.
- The production process at SAGE begins with the copyediting of the manuscript, following which, queries (if any) identified by the Production Editor are sent to the relevant Associate Editor of SAJHRM, who then forwards the query documents to the concerned authors. Queries could be about any missing information, ambiguous statements, or about missing citations and references in the article.
- The Production Editor at SAGE works in close coordination with the relevant Associate Editor of SAJHRM in resolving queries with the authors. Based on the clarifications sent by the authors, the Production Editor incorporates the suggested corrections in the article.
- Several rounds of quality checking are done at the publisher’s end, during which, the Production Editor may choose to send further queries (if necessary) to the authors. The authors are shown the typeset proofs of their articles, so that they can review their articles and send proof corrections (if any), before the final version goes into print.
Publication ethics
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway