Research Guides: Human Resources: Getting Started

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Prepare for a career exam, explore occupations, and improve workplace skills.
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Professional Organizations

Society for Human Resource Management
"researcher, advocate, and thought leader on issues and innovations impacting today’s evolving workplaces"

Resources on the Web

Human Resources Managers
Summary of work environment and outlook from the Department of Labor.
Human Resources Managers in O*NET Online
Occupation specific-information, such as tasks, skills, and wages.
Harvard Business Review: Human Resource Management
Not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. Their mission is to improve the practice of management in a changing world. See topics for human resource management.

Recommended Library Databases

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 2,300 journals covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. See MarketLine Company Profiles for company research papers.
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Small Business Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books.
Regional Business News (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 100 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Career and Technical Education: Business This link opens in a new window
This database is the definitive source for vocational information focused on business.
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Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find hundreds of full text subject-appropriate periodicals.
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Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new window
This collection offers hundreds of journals across communications, covering advertising, public relations, literature, linguistics, interpersonal communication, media studies, and more.
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Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online (AVON) spans a wide range of subject areas. Includes content like documentaries, films, and demonstrations from publishers like the BBC, PBS, and Sony.

Off Campus Access Guide
Use your SKYCTC username and password to access most library databases off campus. Visit our Off Campus Access guide for more help or call the Library Help Desk at (270) 901-1171.
A-Z Database List for SKYCTC
Access the full List of SKYCTC databases.

Featured Library Ebooks (Use SKCYCT login to access.)

See additional ebook titles in the Proquest library database above and the Business Administration resources page.

Effective Onboarding by Davila; Piña-Ramirez
Call Number: Access with SKYCTC login
ISBN: 9781947308619
Publication Date: 2018
Effective onboarding programs both increase and facilitate employee engagement and business results; onboarding shortens the employee learning curve by increasing job knowledge.
Not Just Another Meeting by Sharp; Napier
Call Number: Access with SKYCTC login
ISBN: 9781562866914
Publication Date: 2018
When meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks but fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organization. All too often, this happens because meetings lack purpose—people gather together to discuss a problem but don’t know how to approach it strategically.
Welcome Neurodiversity by McCormack
Call Number: Access with SKYCTC login
ISBN: 9781953946850
Publication Date: 2022
Provides thought starters, information, and tools for people leaders and talent development professionals to better understand neurodivergent people and help them and neurotypical individuals together create a strong, productive, and healthy organization.

Featured Resources

Business Research Quarterly
Peer reviewed, Open Access journal which provides widespread coverage of high quality research in a broad range of topics such as human resource management, organization theory, strategic management, corporate governance, managerial economics, marketing, finance, accounting and operations management.
Talent Development
Provides how-to information on current best practices through case studies, shares new technologies and their applications, reports emerging trends, and discusses relevant and pivotal issues to the field.
Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management
Field, laboratory, and applied research, management cases, as well as practical and theoretical pieces that help both academics and practitioners better understand the phenomena of management in the modern world
Journal of Business and Psychology
Research, case studies, and literature reviews dealing with psychological programs implemented in business settings or with all aspects of psychology that apply to business settings.
Administrative Sciences
Focuses on organization studies, including organization theory, strategic management, public administration, etc.

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