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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
