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People in the workplace are its human resources. The references below cover a broad range of staffing issues that are relevant to small and big businesses, management, and employees.

Websites

Databases

  • Business & Company Resource Center
    Provides periodical articles, detailed information on companies including chronologies and corporate histories, investment reports, industry and company rankings, and financial and industry overviews.
  • Business Source Elite
    Full text articles from business journals in areas, such as business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting.
  • Regional Business News
    Complete articles from over 75 regional business publications

Reading List

  What to do about personnel problems in Maryland by Business and Legal Reports, Inc. 1983- present. (R658.3 WHA 1994 vols. I and II).
Also known as the HR Red Book, this volume has current federal laws and practices with recommendations for common problems, forms, compensation surveys, employee benefit surveys, and newsletters with updates on trends, developments, changes in federal laws and regulations.
Working
virtually : managing people for successful virtual teams
                    and organizations

Working Virtually : Managing People for Successful Virtual Teams and Organizations by
Trina Hoefling. 2001. (658.3 HOE 2001).
Managers working with off-site employees will find help with creating virtual teams, channels of communication (fine-tuning e-mail and voice mail), and overall management.

Managing
                  people in a small business Managing people in a small business by John Stredwick. 2002. (658.3 STR).
Key topics include recruitment, selection, improving performance, training, rewards, legal considerations, and disciplining and dismissing staff.
  HR Focus
American Management Association's human resources journal. Current 3 years in Rockville, Wheaton, and Gaithersburg.
  Workforce
Current 5 years of this journal in Reference in Rockville.

 

Feature

Expert resumes for military-to-civilian transitions

Expert resumes for military-to-civilian transitions by
Wendy S. Enelow. 2006. (615.4 ENE).

Includes resume writing help for careers in administration, accounting, finance, technology, health care, sales, law, intelligence, and more.

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