About Merits

Aims

Merits—Journal of Human Resources (ISSN 2673-8104) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on contemporary research in human resources, leadership, management and governance that enable people to thrive at and through their work. Offering insights into work-based strategies to advance employee engagement, creativity and productivity, Merits—Journal of Human Resources examines how equity, belonging and inclusion are championed alongside wellbeing and innovation. Talent development, frameworks, analytics and issues of governance are also included.

Merits—Journal of Human Resources welcomes a range of peer-reviewed submissions, including research articles, reviews, systematic reviews, and other manuscript types consistent with our aims and scope. We encourages the translation of research insights into implementation in practice for maximal impact on people and work. Our aim is to encourage authors to publish their research in a rigorous and detailed manner. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. All submissions must be transparent in their use of sources, methodologies, theoretical frameworks, and results to facilitate rigorous peer assessment.

Scope

The following topics can be considered at multiple levels, e.g., intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, and societal:

• Selection and Recruitment: Human resources management (HRM), people analytics, AI at work, workforce management;
• Onboarding and Development: Self-evaluation, career development, job training, workplace learning, professional development;
• Consolidation and Well-being: Employee engagement, job satisfaction, employee retention, gender equality, occupational health, occupational safety, burnout;
• Organizational Exit and Outcomes: Labor studies, employment relations, labor law, labor disputes, crisis management, leadership, union, retirement and exit policies, organizational structures and organizational culture.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Merits will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints.

Announcement and Advertisement

Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free in the News & Announcements section of the journal. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is merits@mdpi.com.

Editorial Office

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