Human Resources Management Subject Guide
This guide is designed to assist you in locating information for human resources management courses. In addition to links to information you will also find links to other library guides and resources.
- Starting your research
- Library catalogue
- Databases for finding journal articles
- Case studies
- Information on the World Wide Web
- Statistics
- Make sure to...
Starting your research
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Dictionaries and encyclopedias are useful for finding definitions or explanations of words and concepts. These publications may be available in print or electronic format.
The Library Catalogue can be used to search for additional titles and the collection of Web Reference Sources may contain other online sources.
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Useful human resources management dictionaries & encyclopedias: |
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The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of human resource management |
Call no. R 658.3003 2 |
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The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of organizational behavior |
Call no. R 302.3503 1/1998 |
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The CCH Macquarie dictionary of employment and industrial relations |
Call no. R 331.03 1 |
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A Dictionary of Business (available from Oxford Reference Online) |
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Library Catalogue
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The CQU Library Catalogue is the database of all items (books, videos, audiocassettes, print journals and online fulltext journals, etc) held by the CQU library.
To find items on a topic you can form a keyword search or a subject heading search. Some examples are given below.
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Example keyword combinations:
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employees AND recruiting |
wages AND "industrial relations" |
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"organizational behaviour" OR "organisational behaviour" |
"human resource management" AND australia |
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supervision OR leadership |
"applications for positions" OR resumes |
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Subject headings for human resources management: |
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Databases for finding journal articles
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For a list of databases relevant to Human Resources Management go to:
Databases & Resources by Subject: Management
Information on the World Wide Web
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Searching for information on the World Wide Web can be a huge task. Here are some websites you may like to begin with.
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Human resources management web sites |
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This web site provides information about Australia's peak council and national centre representing the nation's workforce. |
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Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) |
Aims to maximise the ability of all Australians of working age to find work, particularly those that face the most severe barriers to work; and support strong employment growth and the improved productive performance of enterprises in Australia |
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An online government resource for the Australian business community providing business with a wide range of services and information about start-up, taxation, licensing and legislation, as well as significant transactions such as taxation compliance and licence applications. |
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Australia's leading human resources professional body. |
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The focus of the site is to provide the latest AIRC decisions, awards, transcripts and related information. |
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As the largest professional body for managers, the AIM promotes and facilitates management and leadership excellence. |
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Provides assistance and advice to employers (especially in small business) and employees on the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and Australian workplace agreements (AWAs) |
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The main page of this site provides links to masses of pages on HR topics, divided into groups such as job analysis, selection and staffing, employee behavior problems, and human resource information systems. |
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One of a number of guides to worldwide human resource management information. There are a number of linked websites with articles, features, research and books on human resources. (To get to HRM info for another country, go to HRM Guide - countries include Canada, the USA and the UK.) |
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Queensland's entry point to jobs, careers and training, apprenticeships and traineeships, and employment and training government assistance. |
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Provides advisory services about compliance, training and education, and access to the Industrial Relations Information Service (IRIS). |
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This site provides information about wages and conditions of employment covered by federal awards and agreements in Australia. |
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Statistics
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For online statistics relating to human resources management, see CQU Library's Statistics page, which provides links to statistical data from both Australia and overseas.
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Make sure to...
- evaluate your resources
- use an appropriate referencing system
- do not plagiarise