Feature Papers in Merits from Editorial Board Members
A special issue of Merits (ISSN 2673-8104).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 6547
Special Issue Editor
2. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Interests: transformational leadership; governance models; sustainability for a just transition; change management; change agency; empowerment; social networks; stakeholder engagement; radical collaboration; higher education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A Merits Special Issue dedicated to featuring contributions from Editorial Board Members has been agreed. You are duly invited to prepare an article that reflects your research interests, and offers insights and provocations concerning people at work.
Merits focuses on people at work, aligned through purpose, vision and values. As agents of change, we want to explore leadership, management and governance models, processes and frameworks that supports a just transition. This will rely on academic and practice-based inquiry into transformational change, focusing on adaptive ways of working that align with the strategic agility needed to thrive over the long term. Exploring how we embrace the ‘new normal’, navigating the complex impacts of global megatrends and flourishing at work are essential themes of our journal.
Evidence-based research-led solutions to the issues and challenges facing people at work are needed, especially in the wake of the social and economic disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic. As people move to adopt hybrid working practices, purpose and strategy signals are being lost as well as social relationships and connectedness. As such, new ways of creating community, use of technology and better ways to communicate an individual’s contribution to the collective are needed.
Given the diversity of our Editorial Board’s interests, this is an important opportunity to contribute your scholarship in support of advancing the impact of Merits.
The following is an indicative, albeit not exhaustive, list of possible topics and themes:
- Leadership, governance and management—behaviors, practices, models and frameworks;
- Critical evaluation of processes and practices related to people at work;
- The role of technology;
- Smart decision-making tools and developments;
- Strategic clarity and agility;
- Strategy formulation in conditions of uncertainty;
- Promoting autonomy, relatedness and competence;
- Diversity, equity and inclusion and belonging;
- Community building and stakeholder engagement.
Prof. Dr. Wendy M. Purcell
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Merits is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- people at work
- leadership and governance
- equity and belonging
- strategy
- technology
- frameworks and models
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