HRM 4410 Library Presentation

Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian quailste@yorku.ca

Agenda ➔ Group Assignment

➔ Free & Paid Case Sources

➔ Company Research

➔ Effective Searching

➔ Finding Articles

➔ Citation Resources

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Group Presentation •  Choose a company

& focus on a human resources strategy issue it’s facing

•  Prepare presentation & paper à use at least 4 sources

•  Cite in APA

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Group Presentation

Learning Objectives •  Conduct effective

searches •  Find relevant library

resources •  Access APA citation

resources

•  Choose a company & focus on a human resources strategy issue it’s facing

•  Prepare presentation & paper à use at least 4 sources

•  Cite in APA

Free & Paid Case Sources

http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/businesscases

What if you don’t find a case you like? Brainstorm some other tactics for finding a company.

Article 1; Article 2; Article 3

•  Look for sections like “Working for Us”, “Job

seekers”, “Employment”, or “Careers” •  Typically include info on company culture,

diversity initiatives, job ads, & more

Company Websites

Always be critical of company-produced info!

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Company Research •  Filings (publicly-

traded companies) •  Company Reports •  SWOT Analyses

Company Research Guide

Finding Company Filings with Lexis Securities Mosaic 1

Company Research Guide

Tip: allows you to do full-text searching of publicly-traded company filings

Finding Company SWOTs with Marketline

Company Research Guide

12

Tip: Can only access database in Internet Explorer

Finding Company SWOTs with ThomsonOne Investext

1

Company Research Guide

•  Short videos, PDFs, •  & database walkthroughs

http://bryt.library.yorku.ca/

BRYT (Business Research at York Toolkit)

Effective Searching

AND

hiring

OR OR

OR

Phrase searching “double quotation marks” for exact phrases

Combines DISTINCT terms; Fewer results Makes search focused & specific

Combines SIMILAR terms; greater results Makes search broader

Truncation manag* = manager, managing, management etc.

“human resources” selection innovation recruit*

Effective Searching General Motors OR strategy AND (recruitment OR hiring OR layoffs)

Find the mistakes!

Effective Searching

1.  General Motors: put in double quotations 2.  OR: use AND since you’re connecting distinct

keywords 3.  OR layoffs: layoffs isn’t a synonym. Try

using a different synonym like ‘selection’

General Motors OR strategy AND (recruitment OR hiring OR layoffs)

Different Article Types Scholarly Articles

Trade Articles

Newspaper Articles

Different Article Types Scholarly Articles

Trade Articles

Newspaper Articles

- may be peer-reviewed - inform & share research - written by researchers - lengthy bibliographies

- cover current industry issues - written by industry practitioners - published by professional organizations

- cover current issues- written for public by journalists- meant to entertain, inform, or influence

HRM Research Guide

http://researchguides.library.yorku.ca/hrm

•  Short videos, PDFs, •  & database walkthroughs

http://bryt.library.yorku.ca/

BRYT (Business Research at York Toolkit)

Bronfman Library’s Business Citation Guide

The OWL at Purdue’s Citation Guides

Humber Libraries’ APA in Minutes Videos

SPARK’s Creating Bibliographies Guide

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Citation Resources

We’ve covered: ➔ Group Assignment

➔ Free & Paid Case Sources

➔ Company Research

➔ Effective Searching

➔ Finding Articles

➔ Citation Resources

Questions?

Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian quailste@yorku.ca