In October 2025, Prof. Dr. Julia Brandl (University of Innsbruck) and Prof. Dr. Tanja Rabl (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau) took over as editors of the German Journal of Human Resource Management (GHRM). They succeeded Prof. Dr. Martin Schneider (University of Paderborn) and Prof. Dr. Michael Beckmann (University of Basel), who had continuously expanded the journal's scientific influence and international visibility in recent years.
GHRM was founded 38 years ago by German-speaking business administration professors and initially published as a human resource research journal by Rainer Hampp Verlag. Since 2016, it has been published under its current name by the international publisher SAGE. The new editors intend to strengthen the GHRM's position as a platform for effective human resource management research. To achieve this, they intend to expand the community concept, consolidate the multidisciplinary approach and promote dialogue between academia and industry. They also intend to develop the scientific impact further so that it has a social impact too.
Julia Brandl has been a professor of human resource management at the University of Innsbruck since 2011. After studying Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, she earned her PhD and Habilitation in Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research focuses on the design of employment relationships, particularly salary transparency, equality in the labour market, HR technologies, skills development, and the education and training of the future, as well as science transfer.
Tanja Rabl has been a professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (formerly the Technical University of Kaiserslautern) since 2014. She studied psychology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, earning her doctorate and habilitation in business administration at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on responsible human resource management and organisational behaviour in relation to future topics in business, technology and society. In particular, her work covers corruption prevention, demographic and diversity management, digital transformation, the promotion of intrapreneurship and strategic international human resource management.
At this year's Scientific Commission for Human Resources workshop in September, the Commission's chairman, Prof. Dr. Axel Haunschild (Leibniz University Hannover), emphasised the close relationship between the Commission and the German Journal of Human Resource Management. “With Julia Brandl and Tanja Rabl, the German Journal of Human Resource Management is gaining two experienced scientists as editors-in-chief who have been involved with the Scientific Commission for Human Resources for many years, and who represent the variety of research perspectives within the commission.”