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HRM 3430 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 HR planning issues it’s facing

•  Prepare presentation & paper à use at least 4 sources

•  Cite in APA

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Group Presentation •  Choose a company

& focus on HR planning issues it’s facing

•  Prepare presentation & paper à use at least 4 sources

•  Cite in APA

Learning Objectives •  Conduct effective

searches •  Find relevant library

resources •  Access APA citation

resources

Free & Paid Case Sources

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

Article 1; Article 2; Article 3

Oil & gas company with most of its production located in the oil sands in Alberta, Canada

•  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

1

2

Company Research Guide

Tip: Can only access database in Internet Explorer

Finding Company SWOTs with ThomsonOne Investext

1

2

Company Research Guide

•  Short videos, PDFs, •  & database walkthroughs

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

BRYT (Business Research at York Toolkit)

Effective Searching

AND

restructur*

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.

downsizing layoff* “human

resources” redundanc*

Effective Searching Cenovus Energy OR executives AND (compensation OR benefits OR hiring)

Find the mistakes!

Effective Searching Cenovus Energy OR executives AND (compensation OR benefits OR hiring)

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

keywords 3.  OR hiring: hiring isn’t a synonym. Try using

a different synonym like ‘salary’

Different Article Types Scholarly Articles

Trade Articles

Newspaper Articles

Different Article Types

- 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

Scholarly Articles

Trade Articles

Newspaper Articles

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