HR Metrics and Statistical Research

Helpful Library Books

Help with Statistics

Are you afraid of numbers?  Has it been a long time since you last took a math class?  Try these books for some extra help with statistics.

• Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics [ebook]
• Statistics is Easy! [ebook]

Help with SPSS

Helpful guides for using SPSS software.  These are two of the newest library books on this topic.

• SPSS Basics: techniques for a first course in statistics
• Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods

Putting Statistics to Use

What do organizations actually do with research and statistics?

• Statistics for Business [ebook]
• Qualitative research: applications in organizational communication
• How the government measures unemployment [online]
• Understanding human resources: a research-based approach

Conduct Your Own Research

Looking to collect statistics or conduct a survey in your organization?  These books may be helpful:

• Research proposals: a guide to success
• Organizational surveys: the diagnosis and betterment of organizations through their members
• Employee opinion questionnaires: 20 ready-to-use surveys that work
• Perfect phrases for writing employee surveys [ebook]

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Helpful Tips for Using Library Resources

Citations - APA Style

Publication manual for the American Psychological Association

• Available for use in the library, this is the official guide to APA style.

OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) - APA

• OWL is a freely available online resource provided by Purdue University.  The OWL gives clear instructions for formatting your paper and bibliography in APA style.

Refworks

RefWorks is a Web-based software package designed to help you easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

See the Library Guide to Refworks for more information.

Other Links

Citing and Evaluating Resources

Library Video Tutorials

Subject Guides

Finding Scholarly Articles

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - A full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.  Check out this silent video guide to search techniques.

HeinOnline - This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).