What is Human Resources or HR?
Human resources, or HR, may be used to describe different things in organizational culture:
- the department that manages and supports personnel in a business
- the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. Organizations may also use the term "human capital" to discuss the skills and knowledge these individuals have
Human resource management is a term used in the United States since the 1980s that more closely describes the "contemporary approach to managing employees through a series of principles, policies, and practices that center on the individual employee as an organizational resource and investment."
From the International Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Human resources on Wikipedia.
Finding Articles about Human Resources
Search these databases for articles by:
- Using keywords like "human resource management" vs. "personnel management"; "job evaluation" vs. "performance appraisal"; "employee selection" vs. "recruitment."
- Using keywords like wages OR compensation OR pay OR salary
- Selecting subject headings in each record. These link to similar articles
- Adding keywords for articles types like "case studies", "best practice", "benchmarking", "surveys", and "trends"
Adapted from Cornell Univ.
- Business Source EliteBusiness publications and company profiles from Datamonitor.
- OneSearch
Locate books, articles and more in the Glendale College Libraries.
Human Resources and Leadership Books
Evidence Based HRM: What (do) we know about people in workplaces by Brigitte Kroon
Available online. The aim of the book is to provide an introduction to the core theories that inform human resource management research, in order to facilitate the understanding of contemporary research evidence for effective human resource management activities. The most important disciplines that inform human resource management research are economics, sociology and psychology (Molloy, Ployhart, & Wright, 2011). The disciplines find their application in different types of research questions.
Promotions Are So Yesterday
Available online. In Promotions Are So Yesterday, Julie Winkle Giulioni offers you a new approach for developing your employees’ careers and helping them thrive in a company when promotions are not readily available.
The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing by Tony Wall, Cary L. Cooper, Paula Brough
Available online. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts