About This Journal

Human Resources Management and Services is an international Open Access journal that publishes original research articles and review articles related to all areas of human resources. The targeted audiences included academics, human resources and managers.

ISSN:2661-4308(O)

Focus and Scope

• Editorial Policy

  Authors are required to read the “Author Guidelines” before submission and be certain that the manuscript are compiled on the grounds of the journal’s policy.

  All manuscripts submitted to Human Resources Management and Services will undergo stringent peer review. Factors in contributions that will be taken into account are acceptable English language, novelty and originality and relevance to the Focus and Scope of the journal prior to the peer review process.

  The information is to be used exclusively for the stated purposes of our publishing platform and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

  The Journal requires notification if the data of the contribution has been presented in other platform for manuscript that have been published or are being considered for publication in any other journal are not accepted. Authors need to fill out the submission checklist to ensure that these criteria are met.

• Conflict of Interest

  Declarations of interest from all authors should be received before an article can be reviewed and accepted for publication. All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include but are not limited to financial interests (such as membership, employment, consultancies, stocks/shares ownership, honoraria, grants or other funding, paid expert testimonies and patent-licensing arrangements) and non-financial interests (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, personal beliefs).

  For authors, while submitting, authors must list all competing interests relevant to this work, such as funding sources, the sponsor’s role in job design, data collection, and analysis of results, whether the author serves on the editorial board of this journal.

  For editors and reviewers, editors and reviewers must declare any possible conflicts of interest related to the manuscript, and they must avoid the peer review process if necessary. When editorial board members publish in the journals they serve, the editorial board actively emphasizes it, letting authors know that they sidestep the potential peer review process. Common reasons for editors and reviewers should avoid that he or she is one of the authors of this work, or works at the same organization as one of the authors, has a financial relationship or personal relationship with an author.

  If no conflicts exist, the authors should state that the authors declare no conflicts of interest.

• Language

  All articles submitted to Human Resources Management should be written in either British English or American English, to make the paper reach as much people as possible. If the author is not a native speaker of English and in need of help, a professional language editing service is available here.

• Erratum & Withdrawal Policy

  Erratum

  Errors made by editors are errata, and errors made by authors are corrigenda. Neither erratum and corrigendum have any influence on the logic and correctness of the paper. Ideally, all the errors will be detected by the authors and corrected by the publisher before the final publication.

  If you discover any errors in the published articles, please contact the editors. Only after receiving approval or instructions from the editors, would we instigate an erratum or corrigendum to a published article.

  Withdrawal Policy

  If you decide to withdrawal your manuscript after it has been accepted (but not yet published), you must write a letter addressed to our editors at reviewer@piscomed.com, explaining the reason(s) for your withdrawal. Only applications with sound and valid reasons will be accepted. Normally, withdrawal of accepted paper is initiated by editor, for reasons like suspected misconduct and ethical violation.

  It should be noted that withdrawing a paper that has been processed for peer-review or is under peer-review is more difficult compared to withdrawing a new submission, for the time and energy the editors and reviewers spent during the edition and evaluation process.

  If the approval of withdrawal is granted, a penalty fee of USD 200 is required; a notification of confirmation will be sent to you through email, and the paper will be removed from the journal’s online submission system.

  The paid Article Processing Charge will not be refunded if your papers are withdrawn for academic misconducts and ethical violation.

• Plagiarism Detection

  The Human Resources Management will not accept any plagiarized work. We feel a strong obligation to support the scientific community in all aspects of research and publishing ethics. It is recommended that authors use Crossref Similarity Check powered by iThenticate to check their work before submission, which compares the full-text of a paper with the published literature. In the case where authors have used someone else’s or own previously published work/words, that should be properly attributed through appropriate citation. Any detection of overlapping and similar texts in the manuscripts submitted will be considered plagiarism, thus leading to the rejection of the submission.

   

• Authorship

  The authorship is based on the following four criteria:

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
  • Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
  • Final approval of the version to be published.
  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

  In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

  Changes of authorship:

  Any additions, deletions, or rearrangements of author names in the author list can only be made prior to the manuscript’s acceptance for publication. The corresponding author should provide the editorial department with the reason for the change of the list of authors and the written confirmation certificate of all authors (including existing authors and authors to be added or deleted) agreeing to the change. Authors should carefully check the list of authors and the order of authors before submitting a manuscript.

  Authorship change requests require editorial approval before any changes can be made.

• Publication Frequency

  The publication frequency of Human Resources Management is quarterly.

• Article Processing Charges (APCs)

  All Human Resources Management and Services articles are published in Gold Open Access format. We play an active role in open access, working to build bridges to knowledge in research. You are free of all restrictions on accessing (e.g., subscription or using its contents as soon as it is published online). Authors Publishing open access require article processing charges (APCs). Fees will come from the author’s institution or the other research funding agency.

  Waiver Policy

  Human Resources Management and Services is committed to removing economic barriers to knowledge sharing and learning. To help support researchers in low-to-middle income countries, a waiver policy has been developed. Authors who are interested in applying for a waiver could contact reviewer@piscomed.com. Human Resources Management and Services reserves the right to approve or reject a waiver application.

  Journal	APC
  Human Resources Management and Services	US $1000

  
  

• Code of Publishing Ethics

  The ethical policy of PiscoMed Publishing is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with International Committee of PiscoMed Publishing Editorial Board codes of conduct.

  PiscoMed Publishing endorses the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Policy Statement on Geopolitical Intrusion on Editorial Decisions. And also endorses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

  Submission of a manuscript to PiscoMed Publishing implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.

  Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of research work as well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review articles should also be objective, comprehensive, and accurate accounts of the state of the art. The authors should ensure that their work is entirely original works, and if the work and/or words of others have been used, this has been appropriately acknowledged. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

  Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.

  Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

  The journal editors take all possible misconducts seriously. The editors, authors or readers can forward their concerns to the journal if they find out that the description in a submitted article may constitute an academic fraud, research misconduct or publication malpractice. The concerns or complaints on the possible allegations submitted to the journal will be dealt with promptly and appropriately according to the procedure set out in the COPE flowchart on complaints. The complainant may direct all inquiries and correspondence to the Publisher at reviewer@piscomed.com.

• Copyright and License

  Copyright on any open access article in a journal published by PiscoMed publishing is retained by the author(s).

  Authors grant PiscoMed publishing a license to publish, copy, distribute, and convey the article.

  The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.

• Units of Measurement

  Units of measurement should be presented simply and concisely using System International (SI) units.

• Preprint

  Authors are obliged to declare in the cover letter if the corresponding preprint version of their submission has been deposited on a preprint server, and provide any associated accession numbers or DOIs. Usually，authors are permitted to post their non-peer-reviewed original research manuscripts to community preprint servers except revised manuscript after peer-reviewed already.

• Advertising Policy

  Advertisers are welcome to place ads on our site if the advertisement is credible, relevant, and helpful for our targeted audience. Advertisements must comply with the relevant regulations of the country. All advertisements placed on the Human Resources Management and Services’s official website must be approved by the publisher. For more inquiries, please send email to reviewer@piscomed.com.

• Declaimer

  Facts and opinions in articles published on PiscoMed are only the personal statements of respective authors.

  The publication of any article, advertisement or product informations do not imply endorsement or endorsement by the magazine and/or by its publishers.

  The magazine and/or its publishers accept no responsibility for any errors or consequences arising from the use of the information contained in the magazine.

  While every effort has been made by the editorial board and the publisher to ensure that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions or statements appear in this journal. Data and opinions expressed in articles, including editorials and advertisements mentioned in this article, are the sole responsibility of the respective contributors.

  The journal and the publisher disclaim no responsibility for any injury to the person or property of any person arising from any idea or product mentioned in an article or the advertisement it mentioned.

  For authors: By submitting a manuscript, you are acknowledging all publication policies and ethics and will strictly abide by them.

  For reviewers: Once invited to be a reviewer, it is imperative that you understand the review policy and proactively disclose any potential conflicts of interest. You must maintain an impartial attitude and ensure that an article is judged objectively.

• Indexing & Archiving

  All articles published in this journal are included and indexed in the following databases:

  Google Scholar

  National Library of Singapore

  Data storage methods:

  • Self-archive: Authors are encouraged to self-archive final versions of their published articles in institutional databases (such as institutions listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories).
  • Portico : All articles published on Journals are archived by Portico for a long-term digital preservation.
  • Articles stored on the website: Authors are also enable to get the final PDF version published on the website.

• Author Guidelines

  Author Guidelines

  Please carefully check that your manuscript has been prepared in accordance to the step-by-step instructions provided before submitted to our online submission system. This following guide and new manuscript template is updated and prepared specifically for people who is going to contribute or edit the manuscripts that will be published in Human Resources Management and Services (HRMS) since 2023 Volume 5 Issue 1. Those who have submitted a manuscript or articled being processed before 2022 Volume 4 Issue 1 (including 2022 Vol.4 No.1), should still refer to the previous author guidelines for further processing.

  Manuscript Format

  Your manuscript should be in MS Word format. All manuscripts must be written in clear, comprehensible English. Both British and American English are accepted. Usage of non-English words should be kept to a minimum and all must be italicized with the exception of “e.g.”, “i.e.” and “etc.” If you have concerns about the level of English in your submission, please ensure that it is proofread before submission by a native English speaker or a scientific editing service.

  Cover Letter

  All submissions should include a cover letter as a separate file. A cover letter should contain a brief explanation of what was previously known, the conceptual advancement with the findings and its significance to broad readership. The cover letter is confidential and will be read only by the editors. It will not be seen by reviewers.

  Title

  The title should capture the conceptual significance for a broad audience. The title should not be more than 50 words and should be able to give readers an overall view of the paper’s significance. Titles should avoid using uncommon jargons, abbreviations and punctuation.

  List of Authors

  The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set in initials along with their affiliations. Authors should be listed according to the extent of their contribution, with the major contributor listed first. All corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. Affiliations should contain the following core information: department, institution, city, state, postal code, and country. For contact, email address of at least one corresponding author must be included. Please note that all authors must see and approve the final version of the manuscript before submitting.

  Abstract

  Articles must include an abstract containing a maximum of 200 words. The purpose of abstract is to provide sufficient information for a reader to determine whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, please give 5–8 key words; please avoid using the same words as those already used in the title.

  Text

  The text of the manuscript should be in Microsoft Word. The length of the manuscript cannot be more than 50,000 characters (inclusive of spaces) or approximately 7,000 words.

  Section Headings

  Please number the section headings (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) in boldface. Likewise, use boldface to identify subheadings too but please distinguish it from major headings using numbers (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.) Further subsections of subheadings should be differentiated with the numbers 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, etc.

  Introduction

  Introduction should provide a background that gives a broad readership an overall outlook of the field and the research performed. It tackles a problem and states its importance regarding the significance of the study. Introduction can conclude with a brief statement of the aim of the work and a comment about whether that aim was achieved.

  Materials and Methods

  This section provides the general experimental design and methodologies used. The aim is to provide enough details for other investigators to fully replicate your results. It is also required to facilitate better understanding of the results obtained. Protocols and procedures for new methods must be included in detail to reproduce the experiments.

  Results

  This section can be divided into subheadings. This section focuses on the results of the experiments performed.

  Discussion

  This section should provide the significance of the results and identify the impact of the research in a broader context. It should not be redundant or similar to the content of the results section.

  Conclusion

  Please use the conclusion section for interpretation only, and not to summarize information already presented in the text or abstract.

  Conflict of Interest

  All authors are required to declare all activities that have the potential to be deemed as a source of competing interest in relations to their submitted manuscript. Examples of such activities could include personal or work-related relationships, events, etc. Authors who have nothing to declare are encouraged to add "No conflict of interest was reported by all authors" in this section.

  Funding and Acknowledgements

  Authors should declare all financial and non-financial support that have the potential to be deemed as a source of competing interest in relations to their submitted manuscript in this section. Financial supports are generally in the form of grants, royalties, consulting fees and more. Examples of non-financial support could include the following: externally-supplied equipments/biological sources, writing assistance, administrative support, contributions from non-authors etc.

  Appendix

  This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g. advanced technical details) that has been excluded from the main text but remain essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts. This section is not for supplementary figures. Authors are advised to refer to the section on ‘Supplementary figures’ for such submissions.

  Figures

  Authors should include all figures into the manuscript and submit it as one file in the OJS system. Reference to the “Instructions for Typesetting Manuscript” is strongly encouraged. Figures include photographs, scanned images, graphs, charts and schematic diagrams. Figures submitted should avoid unnecessary decorative effects (e.g. 3D graphs) as well as be minimally processed (e.g. changes in brightness and contrast applied uniformly for the entire figure). It should also be set against a white background. Please remember to label all figures (e.g. axis etc.) and number them (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) in boldface. Please also add in captions (below the figure) as required and number them (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) in boldface. The caption should describe the entire figure without citing specific panels, followed by a legend defined as description of each panel. Please identify each panel with uppercase letters in parenthesis (e.g. (A), (B), (C), etc.)

  The preferred file formats for any separately submitted figure(s) are TIFF or JPEG. All figures should be legible in print form and of optimal resolution. Optimal resolutions preferred are 300 dots per inch for RBG colored, 600 dots per inch for greyscale and 1200 dots per inch for line art. Although there are no file size limitation imposed, authors are highly encouraged to compress their figures to an ideal size without unduly affecting legibility and resolution of figures. This will also speed up the process of uploading in the submission system if necessary.

  The Editor-in-Chief and Publisher reserve the right to request from author(s) the high-resolution files and unprocessed data and metadata files should the need arise at any point after manuscript submission for reasons such as production, evaluation or other purposes. The file name should allow for ease in identifying the associated manuscript submitted.

  Tables, Lists and Equations

  Tables created using Microsoft Word table function are preferred. The tables should include a title underneath. Titles and footnotes/legends should be concise. These must be submitted together with the manuscript. Likewise, lists and equations should be properly aligned and its meaning clear to readers. For listing things within the main body of the manuscript, please use Arabic numerals in parenthesis (e.g. (1), (2), (3), (4), etc.)

  Supplementary Information

  This section is optional and contains all materials and figures that have been excluded from the entire manuscript. These materials are relevant to the manuscript but remain non-essential to readers’ understanding of the manuscript’s main content. All supplementary information should be submitted as a separate file in Step 4 during submission. Please ensure the names of such files contain ‘suppl. info’. Videos may be included in this section.

  In-text citations

  Reference citations in the text should be numbered consecutively in superscript square brackets. Some examples:

  a) Negotiation research spans many disciplines[3, 4].

  b) This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman[5].

  c) This effect has been widely studied[1–3, 7].

  Personal communications and unpublished works can only be used in the main text of the submission and are not to be placed in the Reference section. Authors are advised to limit such usage to the minimum. They should also be easily identifiable by stating the authors and year of such unpublished works or personal communications and the word ‘Unpublished’ in parenthesis. E.g. (Smith J, 2000, Unpublished)

   

  References

  This section is compulsory and should be placed at the end of all manuscripts. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list. The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should be excluded from this section.

  References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in parentheses. Authors referenced are listed with their surname followed by their initials. All references should also appear as an in-text citation. References should follow the following pattern: Author(s), title of publication, full journal name in italics followed by year of publication, volume number, issue number in parenthesis and lastly, page range. If the referred article has more than three authors, list only the first three authors and abbreviate the remaining authors to italicized ‘et al.’ (meaning: "and others"). If the DOI is available, please include it after the page range.

  Standard journal article

  Journal article (print) with one to three authors

  •Halpern SD, Ubel PA. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. The New England Journal of Medicine 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.

  Journal article (print) with more than three authors

  •Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Research 2002;935(1-2):40-6.

  Journal article (online) with one to three authors

  •Jackson D, Firtko A and Edenborough M. Personal resilience as a strategy for surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007; 60(1):1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04412.x.

  Journal article (online) with more than three authors

  •Hargreave M, Jensen A, Nielsen TSS, et al. Maternal use of fertility drugs and risk of cancer in children—A nationwide population-based cohort study in Denmark. International Journal of Cancer 2015; 136(8): 1931–1939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29235.

  Book

  Book with one to three authors

  •Schneider Z, Whitehead D and Elliott D. Nursing and Midwifery Research: Methods and Appraisal for Evidence-based Practice, 3rd ed. Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier Australia; 2007.

  Book with more than three authors

  •Davis M, Charles L, Curry M J, et al. Challenging Spatial Norms, London: Routledge; 2003.

  Chapter or Article in Book

  •Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

  *Note that the editor’s name is not inverted.

  Others

  Proceedings of meetings and symposiums, conference papers

  •Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza's computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91.

  Conference proceedings (from electronic database)

  •Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.

  Online Document with author names

  •Este J, Warren C, Connor L, et al. Life in the clickstream: The future of journalism. Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance. 2008; Retrieved from http://www.alliance.org.au/documents/ foj_report_final.pdf

  Online Document without author name

  •Princeton Writing Program. (n.d.). Developing an argument. Retrieved from http://web.princeton.edu/ sites/ writing/Writing_Center/WCWritingResources.htm

  Thesis/Dissertation

  •Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.

  Standards

  •Standards Australia Online. Glass in buildings: Selection and installation. AS 1288-2006, amended January 31, 2008. Retrieved from SAI Global database 2006.

  Government Report

  •National Commission of Audit. Report to the Commonwealth Government, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service 1996.

  Government report (online)s

  •Department of Health and Ageing.Ageing and aged care in Australia; 2008. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ main/publishing.nsf/Content/ageing

  Patent

  •Rencher W F. Bioadhesive pharmaceutical car- rier. US Patent 5462749 A. 1995.

  No author

  •Guide to agricultural meteorological practices, 2nd ed. Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization, Geneva; 1981.

  Note: When referencing an entry from a dictionary or an encyclopedia with no author there is no requirement to include the source in the reference list. In these cases, only cite the title and year of the source in-text. For an authored dictionary/encyclopedia, treat the source as an authored book.

   

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