humrel-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Human Relations (HR) manuscript's contribution against the relevant scholarly conversation and adjacent journals. Positions the paper; it does not develop the theory or run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (humrel-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The theory exists (from `humrel-theory-development`) but its novelty *relative to the conversation* is fuzzy - Your literature review is an annotated bibliography, not an argument that creates a gap - A reviewer says "this has been done," or cannot tell what is new versus prior work - The paper could plausibly be read as an OS, JMS, AMJ, WES, or Organization paper and you must show why it is HR ## Position against a *conversation*, not a topic pile HR expects the literature to be marshalled into an **argument that earns the contribution**. The journal's own guidance is to "review recent issues to ensure that you are connecting to any relevant works in ways that take the conversation forward." So: - Identify the **specific conversation** (e.g., identity work under precarity; algorithmic control; emotion and care work; institutional maintenance) and its **current settled view**. - State the **tension, gap, or anomaly** in that view — what it cannot explain, gets wrong, or has overlooked. - Show how your mechanism (from `humrel-theory-development`) resolves or reframes it. The literature exists to set up the
- When to trigger
- Position against a conversation, not a topic pile
- Make the contribution legible at the scoping screen
- Sibling differentiation — write the boundary explicitly
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the humrel-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Human Relations (HR) manuscript's contribution against the relevant scholarly conversation and adjacent journals. Positions the paper; it does not develop the theory or run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill humrel-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.