Human Resources Management: A San Diego Public Library Resource Guide
This guide is designed to help students and practitioners locate resources in human resources/personnel, especially at or through the City of San Diego Public Library - Main (Downtown) Branch. While this resource guide is not exhaustive of areas of coverage within human resources or resources available at or through the San Diego Public library, every attempt has been made to provide a breadth of both material subtopics and types of sources. Where helpful, information on accessing resources and scope of sample resources have been provided. The availability of all of the library’s holdings can be checked online at the main library site at http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/ or at the library Edesk site at http://sdplweb.sannet.gov either at the library location or from any other computer with access to the World Wide Web. Within San Diego, further resources can be found at the other 36 library branches, County Public Library System, and extensive library systems of the local community colleges, San Diego State University, and the University of California, San Diego.
Magazines, Journals, and other Periodicals
The library catalog is available online at the San Diego Public Library main page: http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/ The catalog can also be immediately accessed at the library’s edesk: http://sdplweb.sannet.gov
When conducting a search, you can limit your search just to your library (materials at your library will be highlighted in yellow but you’ll also be able to see what other branches hold the text you want). You can also limit your search by material type (book, computer file, magazine, map, music recording, musical score, book on tape, or video).
Then, you can enter your search terms and select which kind of search you want:
- Author (Last Name, First Name)
- Title (Skip leading words A, An, and The)
- Subject
- Keyword (Searches all fields)
From the edesk at http://sdplweb.sannet.gov/ you can access this catalog and you can also immediately access specialized collections (many of which are available entirely online) in these other areas:
- Newspapers and Magazines
- General Reference
- Arts & Recreation
- Business & Government
- Education, Career & Law
- Health, Science & Technology
- History, People & Places
- Reading & Literature
- En Español
- Kids
Dewey Decimal Subject Headings
The San Diego Public Library, like most public libraries, uses the Dewey Decimal Classification System. This system groups related texts by subject. As well as looking up specific texts in a catalog, then, it can also be useful to browse the shelves in a given area. These Dewey Decimal subject headings are likely to be of most use in searching for materials in personnel management:
020 Library & information sciences
023 Personnel administration
300 Social Sciences
331 Labor economics
331.1 Labor force and market
331.2 Compensation and other conditions of employment
331.3 Workers of specific age groups
331.4 Women workers
331.5 Special categories of workers other than by age or sex
331.6 Categories of workers by racial, ethnic, national origin
331.7 Labor by industry and occupation
331.8 Labor unions, labor-management bargaining and disputes
340-340.5 Law
344 Social, labor, welfare, & related law
348 Law (Statutes), regulations, cases
349 Law of specific jurisdictions & areas
351 Public administration of central governments
351.1 Personnel management
361 General social problems & services
600 Technology (Applied Sciences)
650 Management
651 Office Services
652 Processes of written communication
658 General Management
658.3 Personnel
Library of Congress Subject Headings
While the San Diego Public Library and most public libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification System, most university libraries use the Library of Congress System. Because university libraries make most of their services available to members of the public, in searching for information on a particular subject, one should also keep in mind useful subject headings from the Library of Congress. The following Library of Congress Subject Headings are most likely to be useful in researching personnel management issues at academic libraries.
Class H – Social Sciences
HF Commerce
HF5387 Business Ethics
HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management, Employment Management
Class K – Law
K1701-1841 Social legislation, Labor law
KF Law of the United States
KF3301-3750 Labor Law
KFC0-1199 California Law
Class L – Education
LC1037-1037.8 Career education
LC1041-1048 Vocational education (General)
LC1049-1049.8 Cooperative education
LC1051-1072 Professional education
LC1081-1087.4 Industrial education (General)
The San Diego Public Library offers a variety of printed material available for check-out. The following list is a sampling of some recent or notable books available in human resources management.
Books
Communication
Kras, E. S. (1989). Management in two cultures: Bridging the gap between U.S. and Mexican managers. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
658.45/KRAS
Reardon, K. K. (1995). They don’t get it do they?: Communication in the workplace—closing the gap between women and men. Boston: Little, Brown.
305.42/REARDON
Compensation and Benefits
Badgett, M.V. L. (2003). Equal rights, fiscal responsibility: The impact of AB 205 on California's budget. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles.
CAL U 233.2:R 44
Flannery, T. P. (1996). People, performance, and pay: Dynamic compensation for changing organizations. New York: Free Press.
658.322/FLANNERY
Matthews, J. L. (1988). Social security, medicare and pensions. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press.
305.26/MATTHEWS
Risher, H. (1999). Aligning pay and results: Compensation strategies that work from the boardroom to the shop floor. New York: American Management.
658.322/ALIGNING
Diversity
Albrecht, M. H. (2001). International HRM: Managing diversity in the workplace. Oxford: Blackwell Business.
658.3008/INTERNATIONAL
Cox, T., Jr. (2001). Creating the multicultural organization: A strategy for capturing the power of diversity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
658.3008/COX
Hankins, G. G. (2000). Diversity blues: How to shake'em. Cincinnati, OH: Telvic Press.
658.3008/HANKINS
Hogan, G. (2003). The inclusive corporation: A disability handbook for business professionals. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
658.30087/HOGAN
Lancaster, L. C., & Stillman, D. (2002). When generations collide: Who they are. Why they clash. How to solve the generational puzzle at work. New York: HarperBusiness.
658.30084/LANCASTER
Zemke, R., Raines, C., & Filipczak, B. (2000). Generations at work: Managing the clash of veterans, boomers, xers, and nexters in your workplace. New York: AMACOM.
658.30084/ZEMKE
General
Horowitz, A. S. (1999). The unofficial guide to hiring and firing people. New York: Macmillan.
658.311/HOROWITZ
Library Personnel Issues
Katz, B., & Fraley, R. A. (1986). Personnel issues in reference services. New York: Haworth Press.
025.5/PERSONNEL
Riechel, R. (1989). Personnel needs and changing reference service. Hamden, CT: Library Professional Publications.
025.04/RIECHEL
In addition to the library’s collection of printed books, it also offers to patrons two large collections of electronic books or ebooks. These texts can be accessed over the internet and can be “checked out” for up to 21 days using your library id number and PIN (usually the last 4 digits of your phone number). You can find ebooks via the library catalog or go directly to http://sdplweb.sannet.gov/ and select one of the two ebook collections:
- eBook Collection (popular fiction, travel guides, computer books, bestsellers, non-fiction, available for 21 days)
- netLibrary
The following list is a sample of ebooks in personnel management available for checkout:
Crainer, S. (1999). The 75 greatest management decisions ever made [Electronic resource]. New York: AMACOM.
Falcone, P. (1996). 96 great interview questions to ask before you hire [Electronic resource]. New York, NY: American Management Association.
Fink-Berryman, C., & Fink, C. B. (1996). The manager's desk reference [Electronic resource]. (2 nd ed.). New York: AMACOM.
Mayer, G. G., & Mayer, T. (1999). Goldilocks on management: 27 revisionist fairy tales for serious managers [Electronic resource]. New York: AMACOM.
Magazines, Journals, and other Periodicals
The San Diego Public Library subscribes to a number of print journals which are available onsite and are searchable through the online catalog.
Extensive additional periodical and journal holdings are available electronically via http://sdplweb.sannet.gov using any computer with access to the Internet. Limit the search type to Magazine. Serials can also be located through the library’s Magazine & Journals List. Also available through this page are selected free government magazines and open source freely available via the Internet.
The databases at SDPL with the majority of periodical sources in personnel/human resources management are:
- Academic Search Elite (ASE)
- Business Source Premier (BSP)
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (HS-N/A)
- MasterFILE Premier (MFP)
- Military & Government Collection (MGC)
- TableBase (TB)
The following periodicals in Human Resources and Personnel Management are available in print and/or electronically at San Diego Public Library (database/print availability noted in parenthesis):
Benefits Law Journal. (BSP)
Benefits Quarterly. (BSP)
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. (BSP)
California Management Review. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.05; BSP)
Compensation & Benefits Management. (BSP)
The Diversity Update. (Print only: San Diego HR 1.15)
Employee Benefit News. (BSP; MFP; TB)
Employee Benefit Plan Review. (BSP; MFP)
Executive Excellence. (BSP; MFP)
Gender, Work, and Organization. (BSP)
Getting Results- for the Hands-on Manager. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3; BSP; MSP)
HR Briefing. (BSP)
HR Focus. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3005; BSP; MFP; TB)
HR Magazine. (BSP; MFP; TB)
Human Resource Development International. (BSP)
Human Resource Management Journal. (BSP)
Human Resource Management Review. (BSP; MFP)
Human Resource Planning. (BSP)
Human Systems Management. (BSP)
Industrial and Commercial Training. (BSP)
International Journal of Human Resource Management. (BSP)
International Journal of Training and Development. (BSP)
Introduction to Human Resource Management (BSP)
IOMA's Human Resource Department Management Report. (BSP; TB)
IOMA's Pay for Performance Report. (BSP; TB)
IOMA's Report on Compensation & Benefits For Law Offices. (BSP)
IOMA's Report on Managing 401(K) Plans. (BSP; TB)
IOMA's Report on Managing Benefits Plans. (BSP; TB)
IOMA's Report on Managing Logistics. (BSP; TB)
IOMA's Report on Salary Surveys. (BSP; TB)
Journal for Quality and Participation. (BSP; MFP)
Journal of Compensation and Benefits. (BSP)
Journal of Deferred Compensation. (BSP)
Journal of Employment Discrimination Law. (BSP)
Journal of Human Resources. (BSP)
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. (ASE; MFP)
Library Personnel News. (Print Only: PERIODICAL 023)
Personnel and Guidance Journal. (BSP; HS-N/A)
Personnel Journal. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3005; BSP; MFP; MGC)
Personnel Psychology. (Print: PERIODICAL; BSP)
Personnel Review. (BSP)
Personnel Today. (BSP)
Public Personnel Management. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3005; BSP; MFP)
Strategic HR. (BSP)
Supervisory Management. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3005)
T+D. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3124; ASE; BSP; MFP; TB)
Training. (BSP; MGC)
Work and Stress. (ASE; BSP; HS-N/A)
Workforce. (Print: PERIODICAL 658.3005; ASE; BSP; MFP; TB)
The San Diego Public Library’s Catalog of U.S. Government Documents (MARCIVE) covers July 1976 to the present. This catalog, however, is only accessible at San Diego County Public Library locations.
Additional Government Publications are available from the main library catalog. Sources of interest in personnel management include:
California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities. (2004). The employment status of Californians with disabilities: Annual report to the governor and legislature. Presented by the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.
CAL GOV 38.18
Health Care Financing Administration. (1991). HCFA fact sheet: Sexual harassment. Bethesda, MD: Equal Opportunity Office.
HE 22.2: SE9
Internal Revenue Service. (2004). Employer’s tax guide to fringe benefits. Washington, DC: Department of Treasury.
T 22.44/2: 15-B/
Office of the Federal Register. (2004). Code of federal regulations: Title 20, employee’s benefits. Washington, DC: Office of the Federal Register.
AE 2.106/3: 20/
U.S. Department of Labor. (1999). About equal pay: A report of the US department of labor. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor.
L 1.2: P29
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Handbooks
While not exhaustive, the following list includes many of the reference works available at SDPL most likely to be of use in researching personnel/human resources:
Diversity
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, NIB and NISH. (2000). Working together: Federal personnel and the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Program: JWOD handbook. (4 th ed.). Arlington, VA: The Committee.
Y 3.P 97:8 W 89
Hunter, N. D. (2004). The rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people: The authoritative ACLU guide to a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person's rights (4 th ed.). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
342.73087/HUNTER
United States, Small Business Administration, Office of Equal Opportunity. (1993). Reference manual for the prevention of sexual harassment. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Equal Opportunity
SBA 1.19:SE 9
General
Farr, J. M. (2003). The enhanced occupational outlook handbook (4 th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Jist Works.
331.702/FARR
Finch, F. (1985). The facts on file encyclopedia of management techniques. New York: Facts on File Publications.
658.003/FINCH
Helms, M. M. (Ed.). (1982). Encyclopedia of management (4 th ed.). Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2000.
658.003/ENCYCLOPEDIA
Hudson, F. M. (1999). The handbook of coaching: A comprehensive resource guide for managers, executives, consultants, and human resource professionals. (1 st ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
658.3124/HUDSON
Imundo, L. V. (1991). The effective supervisor's handbook. (2 nd ed.). New York: AMACOM.
658.302/IMUNDO
Korb, R. A. (1998). Handbook on human resources: Recordkeeping and analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics.
ED 1.108:H 88
Shafritz, J. M. (1985). The facts on file dictionary of personnel management and labor relations (2nd ed.). New York: Facts on File, Inc.
658.3003/SHAFRITZ
Systems and Procedures Exchange Center. (1987). Performance evaluation in reference services in ARL libraries [Brochure]. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies.
023.9/PERFORMANCE
Legal
Fleischer, C. H. (2004). Employer's rights: Your legal handbook from hiring to termination and everything in between. (1 st ed.). Naperville, IL: Sphinx Pub.
344.7301/FLEISCHER
San Diego
City of San Diego promotional process: An employee handbook. (1999). San Diego, CA: City of San Diego.
SAN DIEGO (CITY) PER 1.8:P 94
Bibliographies can be an especially useful resource in any research project. These texts compile lists of sources within their topic area, often with annotations about the content and/or usefulness of each source. The following bibliographies, while treating business generally, should prove useful in personnel management research:
Business organizations, agencies, and publications directory. (1986). Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co.
338.4025/BUSINESS
California State Library, State Information and Reference Center. (1986). Women in business. Sacramento, CA: State Information & Reference Center.
CAL E 7.3:7
Crainer, S. (1997). The ultimate business library: 50 books that shaped management thinking. New York: AMACOM
658.0016/CRAINER
Daniells, L. M. (1993). Business information sources. (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
330.016/DANIELLS
The directory of business information resources. (1992). Lakeville, CT: Grey House Pub.
38.7025/DIRECTORY
Freed, M. N., & Diodato, V. P. (1991). Business information desk reference: Where to find answers to business questions. New York: Macmillan.
330.016/FREED
The Grey House directory of special issues: A guide to business magazines, factbooks, yearbooks, buyers' guides, directories, reviews, forecasts, rankings, statistical reports, awards, marketing studies, convention reports, membership rosters. (2001). Millerton, NY: Grey House Pub.
330.016/GREY
[Note: This text offers a useful guide to special issues (or a journal issue devoted to a single, focused topic) in business journals.]
Hardy, G. J., & Robinson, J. S. (1996). Subject guide to U.S. government reference sources. (2nd ed.). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
025.1734/HARDY
[Note: While this text does not treat business specifically, its coverage of government reference materials is likely to be of use in working within government employment regulations.]
Karp, R. S., & Schlessinger, B. S. (Eds.). (2002). The basic business library: Core resources. (4th ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
016.02769/BASIC
[Note: This text, while not specifically treating personnel management represents an overview of some of the most valuable sources in business and management. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 are likely to be of particular use.]
Lea, R. (1991). What's in the Business Reference Center?. San Diego, CA: San Diego Public Library.
330.016/LEA
[Note: This text’s focus on the Library’s Business Reference Center, although older, promises to be of special value to anyone researching business/management issues locally.]
Pagell, R. A. (1999). International business information: how to find it, how to use it. (2 nd ed.). New York: AMACOM.
330.016/PAGELL
As well as the collection of materials available at the San Diego Public Library or accessible with a patron id from its website is the vast collection available via the public World Wide Web. However, with such a vast number of resources, it can be difficult to search efficiently or effectively. The San Diego Public Library website provides several resources to help in an Internet search. To access these resources, start at the main webpage, http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/, and from the drop-down menu on the left select Searching the Internet to access the library’s guide to the Web. Here, the website provides three useful resources for Internet searching:
- The Librarians' Index to the Internet or lii.org. Unlike the World Wide Web itself, where anyone can publish, lii.org selects important, useful, and reputable websites to highlight, just as a librarian selects the most important and useful texts to house in the library. You can choose to search their selected pages or browse selections in various categories.
- Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Metacrawler [a meta search engine, or an engine that returns results from multiple single search engines like Google and Yahoo], Altavista language search, Yahoo español). These tools are useful for exploring the Internet, but sources are not narrowed by reputability or usefulness as they are on lii.org or in the library.
- Help and Advanced Searching. Because constructing a search that will return a manageable number of the most accurate and useful sources is difficult, these search guidelines can be of great use.
For more information on searching the World Wide Web, you might want to review the SDPL workshop, Evaluating Internet Resources or the Spanish-language presentation Internet Básico.
The following Internet resources were located using the Librarians’ Index to the Internet by searching the phrase, “human resources”:
American Association for Affirmative Action
- “The American Association for Affirmative Action is the association of professionals managing affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity and other human resource programs.”
- http://www.affirmativeaction.org/
Bpubs (Business Publications)
- This “Business Publications Search Engine” offers extensive business resources, including a page devoted to human resources.
- http://www.bpubs.com/
Free Management Library
- Offers extensive free resources for all aspects of non-profit and for-profit management, including: Benefits and Compensation, Career Development, Employee Performance, Employee Wellness, Evaluations (many kinds), Human Resources Mgmnt, Interviewing (all kinds), Jobs, Perf. Mgmnt (basics), Staffing, Supervision, Training and Development, Volunteers
- http://lii.org/search?goto=002840
Other Media Formats
Information in a variety of additional formats including cdrom, videorecording, audiorecording, and microform can also be found at the San Diego Public Library.
Adams, B., & Veruki, P. (1997). Adams' streetwise hiring top performers [CDROM] . Holbrook, MA: Adams Media.
CDROM 658.311/ADAMS
Calano, J. (1991). How to write & conduct effective performance appraisals [Sound recording]. Boulder, CO: Career Track Publications.
AC 658.3125/CALANO
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2001). Business responds to AIDS [CDROM]. Rockville, MD: Business and Labor Resource Service.
HE 20.7039/2:B 96 X
Time-Life Video. (1991). Communication skills for managers [Videorecording]. New York: Ambrose Video.
VC 658.45/COMMUNICATION
University of Minnesota. (2001). Removing the revolving door: Strategies to address recruitment and retention challenges [Microform]. Washington, DC: United States Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center.
ED 1.310/2:457638
