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Organizational Management and Human Resources Management Materials relevant to the study of organization management and human relations management are held throughout the Rutgers University Libraries. Research in this area is often interdisciplinary in nature and includes material from a variety of disciplines such as: business, psychology, sociology, law, education, labor and others. Researchers must be prepared to use a variety of research tools to identify the materials relevant to their topics. This guide is not comprehensive; rather, it provides information on a selection of important sources. Please contact the School of Management & Labor Relations Library Reference Desk at 732/932-9513 if you need further assistance. I. Reference Works and Introductory SourcesThe following titles are print reference materials located in the Rutgers University Libraries. They will be especially useful for supplementing textbook readings and providing an introduction and an overview of an OM or HRM topic during the initial stages of a research project.
II. IRIS: Rutgers University's Online CatalogIRIS can be searched by keyword or Library of Congress subject heading. One suggested strategy is to combine these techniques by conducting an "Advanced Search" in IRIS. Useful LC Subject Headings for researching Organizational Management or Human Resource Management include:
Within the IRIS advanced search mode the most appropriate subject term can be combined with other words found anywhere in the item record to conduct a targeted search. Possible "words found anywhere" or keyword terms could include the following, but use natural language to choose the most appropriate keyword for the research topic:
III. JournalsRutgers University Libraries subscribes to many key journals within the fields of organizational management and human resource management. They are available in print format throughout the Rutgers Libraries. Many titles are also available through subscription databases made available through the Rutgers University Libraries. To search for journal titles not listed here, conduct a periodical title search in IRIS.
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Administrative Science Quarterly
Corporate Governance
Creativity and Innovation Management
Gender, Work and Organization
Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice
Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management Journal
Human Resource Management Review
International Journal of Industrial Organization
International Journal of Selection and Assessment
Journal of Management
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Knowledge and Process Management: The Journal of Corporate Transformation (Continues: Business Change & Re-Engineering)
Organization Science
Organizational Studies
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (Continues: Organizational Behavior and Human Performance)
Personnel Psychology
Personnel Review
Research in Organizational Behavior
Trends in Organizational Behavior Other electronic journals include the following:
IV. Electronic Indexes and DatabasesThese general business indexes include coverage of the organizational management and human resource management literature. All are subscribed to by Rutgers University and provide sophisticated search capabilities and full-text delivery of articles from your desktop. Each of these databases can be accessed remotely by the Rutgers community. For more information on this capability visit the How do I connect from off-campus? page.
There are also some databases which are only available from computers in the SMLR Library:
BNA Human Resource Library
Provides HR professionals, consultants, and attorneys with practical, comprehensive, and timely coverage of workplace issues. The HR Library explains federal and state compliance requirements and summarizes state laws and regulations; analyzes compensation and benefits, EEO, employee relations, organizational development, safety and health, and staffing issues; and gives tips on writing and implementing work rules and policies.
BNA Surveys included in HR Library: Provides exclusive surveys of HR professionals, capturing the latest HR trends in hiring; layoffs; HR budgets, functions, and staffing; holiday practices, and more. Reports include detailed analyses of findings, broken down by industry, organization size, and region, as well as descriptions of employers' programs and examples of real-world policies.
BNA Labor and Employment Law Library
A complete resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of the field: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration decisions.
BNA Occupational Safety and Health Reporter For full news coverage and documentation of federal and state occupational safety and health programs, standards, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and court and agency decisions, rely on the resource that OSHA officials themselves use.
V. News and Magazines
VI. Associations
VII. Research and Resource Centers
VIII. Special TopicsThis section was created with the help of: Eddrena Barr, Tom Kondo, Kathy McKenna, Loida Noriega-Wilson, Dolores Smith, and Kelly Welch Compensation and Staffing
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
This website provides an enormous amount of information from glossary of terms used in benefits and compensation to internships, conferences, seminars and important industry links to aid in finding the answer to question you may have in the area of benefits or compensation.
JobStar Central - Salary Information
This website is a comprehensive job search guide with salary information and links to hundreds of salary surveys.
WorldatWork
Formerly the American Compensation Association, this website provides comprehensive information on compensation, including salary surveys, periodicals, and books on compensation as well as other areas of HR. It also provides links to other HR sites that may be useful in the compensation area such as consultants, payroll services and outsourcing.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics
"This site is an extension of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. BLS measures the economy through producing and disseminating timely, accurate, and relevant information in our areas of expertise. Additionally, BLS improves the accuracy, efficiency, and relevance of our economic measures and program outputs through increased application of state-of-the-art statistical techniques, economic concepts, technology, and management processes."
US Department of Labor
"The Department of Labor maintains this server to enhance public access to the Department's information. The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements."
Salary Calculator
Compare the cost of living in hundreds of different cities, and find out what you would need to make if you changed cities.
Standard Occupational Classification
"The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System was developed in response to a growing need for a universal occupational classification system. Such a classification system would allow government agencies and private industry to produce comparable data. Users of occupational data include government program managers, industrial and labor relations practitioners, students considering career training, job seekers, vocational training schools, and employers wishing to set salary scales or locate a new plant. It will be used by all federal agencies collecting occupational data, providing a means to compare occupational data across agencies. It is designed to cover all occupations in which work is performed for pay or profit, reflecting the current occupational structure in the United States."
WageWeb "Our mission is to provide compensation information and services that will help you attract and retain your most valuable asset - your employees."
Consulting Firms
The Clayton Wallis Company
"The Clayton Wallis Company specializes in providing flexible, powerful and comprehensive Salary Analysis and Compensation Planning Software and Online Salary Survey Forecasting and Compensation Planning Services."
The Hay Group
"Specializes in compensation/benefits, performance management and E-business applications people development, change management."
Hewitt Associates LLC
Hewitt Associates LLC is a global outsourcing and consulting firm delivering a complete range of human capital management services to companies, including HR and Benefits Outsourcing, HR Strategy and Technology, Health Care, Organizational Change, Retirement and Financial Management, and Talent and Reward Strategies.
Linkage Inc.
"Linkage, Inc. is a leading provider of organizational development and corporate education programs, products, and services."
The Management Advantage
Site contains information on: Affirmative Action Plans - Development and ImplementationHR
Systems Audits, EEO Complaint Investigations and Consulting, Expert Witness Support,
Handbooks and Policy Development and Investigate employee discrimination complaints.
Organizational Resources Counselors
ORC services cover a wide range of managemeus amount of information from glossary of terms used in benefits and compensation to internships, conferences, seminars and important industry links to aid in finding the answer to question you may have in the area of benefits or compensation.
Stern & Associates
"Stern & Associates is a management consulting firm specializing in compensation; organization analysis, design and change; performance management; and employee communications."
Towers Perrin
"Towers Perrin is one of the world's largest global management consulting firms, assisting organizations in managing people, performance and risk. Towers Perrin HR consultants help organizations manage their investment in people to achieve measurable performance improvements, focusing on human resource strategy and service delivery, benefit and compensation design and implementation (including retirement, health and welfare and executive compensation), employee and organizational communication, HR technology and outsourced HR administration."
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
"Watson Wyatt is a global consulting firm focused on human capital and financial management. They specialize in four areas: employee benefits, human capital strategies, her and insurance and financial services."
The Web of Culture
"Web of Culture offers a wide array of Consulting, Educational and Training Services as well as products to professionals on topics related to website globalization and cross-cultural communications."
William M. Mercer
"William M. Mercer is a very large global consulting firm active in all aspects of strategic and operational human resource consulting and implementation. Special areas of emphasis include employee benefits, compensation, communication and actuarial services. The company also advises on risk management and investment issues."
Training & Development
Academy of Management Online This website is an association of management professionals dedicated to disseminating knowledge among the management ranks as well as organizations. The Academy provides scholarships for the development of management professionals who are members of the academy. To access some areas of the website you are required to be a member.
American Management Association
This website focuses on educational aspects of the management profession such as available seminars, conferences, e-learning and books to help enhance the careers of management professionals.
American Society for Training & Development
This website is the home of one of the leading associations for workplace learning and training professionals. You can become a member and have access to a wealth of information to improve performance and training for yourself or the organization you represent. There is an overwhelming amount of information on conferences, publication, learning communities, and public policies. Be careful not to get lost in all of the information presented on this website.
ERIC
ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center. This site is a great resource for all aspects of education research, including "model" training and development programs.
O*Net Online
"Welcome to O*NET OnLine, your window on the world of work. O*NET OnLine is a U.S. government application (US Department of Labor) that was created for the general public-to provide broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs."
US Office of Personnel Management The US Office of Personnel Management is "The Federal Government's Human Resources Agency." It provides news, articles, publications, and other information pertaining to Federal Human Resources issues (like new national labor policies and tax cuts or raises, etc.) as it relates to US citizens and non-citizens living in the United States.
Human Resource Strategy
Human Resources Learning Center
"This site provides the latest information on human resources benchmarking, best practices, new tools and technology, reengineering, information systems, conferences, web resources and much more."
O*Net Online
"Welcome to O*NET OnLine, your window on the world of work. O*NET OnLine is a U.S. government application (US Department of Labor) that was created for the general public-to provide broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs."
Society for Human Resource Management
This is the site of one of the premier associations for HR professionals. It provides information on every aspect of HR from OSHA to mergers and acquisition implications in HR.
SHRM Global Forum
This website from the Society for Human Resource Management provides information on HR issues in the global arena.
US Office of Personnel Management
The US Office of Personnel Management is "The Federal Government's Human Resources Agency." It provides news, articles, publications, and other information pertaining to Federal Human Resources issues (like new national labor policies and tax cuts or raises, etc.) as it relates to US citizens and non-citizens living in the United States.
Job Search Sites
CareerBuilder.com
Headhunter, Careermosaic and Careerbuilder have all merged to provide what is arguably the best job search engine on the 'net. Comprehensive job database, complete with search capabilities, by job type, industry and company. Includes resume posting service, job agents, international job searching. Site for job seekers, employers and 3rd part recruiters.
ExecuNet
"ExecuNet is the premier career management and e-recruiting service for executives with salaries in excess of $100K."
HotJobs
Another great job search site. Search by job type, US/National location, company, or staffing firm. Links to moving and salary information, career tools section. Now owned by Yahoo!
Jobsearch.org
Guided by the vision of America's Labor Market Information System, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has developed America's Career Kit in partnership with the states and private sector organizations. This powerful suite of Web-based tools includes AJB, America's Career InfoNet(ACINet), America's Learning eXchange (ALX), and America's Service Locator (ASL).
Monster.com
The 'monster' of all job search sites. One stop shopping for your entire job search, interview, career needs and questions. Most employers post their jobs here, first.
Net-temps.com
32,058 contract jobs and 24,185 direct jobs currently posted. Overrun with agencies (7,500 +) but a good source for temp work. Beware, once a site like this gets hold of your resume you may have to unplug your phone at night.
Economics and Statistics
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Contains data arranged by nation (GDP and related data, Fixed assets), industry (GDP by industry and input-output data), international country (Balance of payments and related data and survey forms) and region (gross state product, local area, quarterly and annual state personal income). Also includes related articles. The mission of this website is "... to strengthen the understanding of the U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant GDP and economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner."
Bureau of Labor Statistics
"This site is an extension of the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. BLS measures the economy through producing and disseminating timely, accurate, and relevant information in our areas of expertise. Additionally, BLS improves the accuracy, efficiency, and relevance of our economic measures and program outputs through increased application of state-of-the-art statistical techniques, economic concepts, technology, and management processes."
New Jersey Department of Labor
Labor and employment information for the State of New Jersey, including occupational wage survey data and regional labor market reviews.
The Dismal Scientist from Economy.com
Website of current economic information all over the world. Up to date information on consumer price index, analysts' views. Economic release coverage and commentary. Today's Economy, Federal Reserve and Message Boards available if you are a paid subscriber.
FedStats
"FedStats is the new window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 70 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them."
National Bureau of Economic Research
"The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Our research is conducted by more than 600 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields." Contains sections named 'publications', 'research', and 'data'. Also, very helpful list of working papers listed by program (subject).
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Mission is to provide an international organization which helps governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalized economy. Overall, lots of European data- HR and other. Great section where you can look at OECD documents by country or by subject. Subjects include: Best practices, case studies, manuals, sources and methods, and other very valuable information.
Law/EEO/Diversity
AFL/CIO This website is the home of one of the largest unions in America. The website contains a wide range of information on why people join unions, economics, safety on the job, working women, and a host of other information that can prove valuable to union and non union workers alike.
US Department of Labor
"The Department of Labor maintains this server to enhance public access to the Department's information. The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements."
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This website contains information pertaining to the EEOC, including: statistics, how-to guides for employees and employers, new policy, news, publications, and contact information. "The EEOC was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and began operating on July 2, 1965."
US National Labor Relations Board
"This website is an extension of the NLRB. The NLRB is an independent Federal agency created in 1935 to enforce the National Labor Relations Act. Among other duties, the NLRB conducts ballot elections to determine whether employees want union representation and investigates and remedies unfair labor practices by employers and unions."
US Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management is "the Federal Government's Human Resources Agency." It provides news, articles, publications, and other information pertaining to Federal Human Resources issues (such as new national labor policies and tax cuts or raises) as it relates to US citizens and non-citizens living in the United States.
Organizational Change/Change Management
BPR Online Learning Center
Resources for reengineering and change management.
Center for Leadership & Change Management
Research center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Organisational Change
Part of the Social Science Information Gateway. Links to selected Internet resources.
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