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Editorial
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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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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