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Management 104 - Industrial Relations & Human Resource Management

Prepared by Marcella Barnhart
Lippincott Library

This guide recommends resources for preparing your team project.

Business Source Complete.

Draws content from thousands of sources ranging from general business periodicals such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, and Fortune to trade journals such as Training & Development to academic journals such as Harvard Business Review and Organizational Behavior.

The below are helpful subject terms to combine with a company name or keywords like best practice* (the asterisk is a truncation symbol) or benchmark*:
  • Career development
  • Compensation management
  • Diversity in the workplace
  • Employee fringe benefits
  • Employee motivation
  • Employee retention
  • Employee selection
  • Employees - recruiting
  • Incentives
  • Job enrichment
  • Job satisfaction
  • Personnel management
  • Quality of work life
  • Standards
  • Vacations, employee
  • Wages
  • Work environment
  • Work-life balance

To find out what has been written about a company's corporate culture and organization, try combining a search for the company name with any of these subjects:
  • Business planning
  • Strategic planning
  • Corporate culture
  • Organizational behavior
  • Organizational change
  • Organizational structure
Datamonitor Company Profiles which contain company history information and brief SWOT analysis are also available through Business Source Complete. Run a simple search for the company name and click the Company Profiles link on the right-hand side of the results page.


ABI/Inform.

Similar to Business Source Complete, ABI/Inform covers a wide range of business publications, with a focus on journals, rather than newspapers or dailies. To redirect your search, utilize the "Suggested Topics" listed with search results. Helpful subjects to combine with a company name or to combine with best practice* or benchmark* include:
  • Compensation
  • Competitive advantage
  • Employee benefits
  • Employee development
  • Employee turnover
  • Hiring
  • Human resource management
  • Incentives
  • Personnel selection
  • Recruitment
  • Retention
  • Wages and salaries
  • Wage and salary administration
  • Workplace diversity


Conference Board.

Research, trend assessment and forecasts from "the world's most widely-quoted private source of management and economic research." Enter your own keywords, or browse by category (Benefits, Change Management and Innovation, Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Engagement/Job Satisfaction, HR and Talent Management, etc.)


Franklin, Penn Libraries' Online Catalog.

To find books about a company, search for the company name as a keyword.

To look for broader topics, search for keywords or browse using the following subject headings:
  • Compensation management
  • Employee fringe benefits
  • Employee motivation
  • Employee retention
  • Employee selection
  • Employees - recruiting
  • Human Capital
  • Personnel Management


Hoover's Online (International Company Directory).

Includes brief company history, competitors, executive biographies and summary financials. Useful for corporate overview and history of public companies. Search by company name or ticker.


International Directory of Company Histories.

Includes well-referenced 5-6 page company history.

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