Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Resource Guide: Research

APQC is a nonprofit education and research organization that works with other organizations in fields, such as manufacturing, healthcare, labor, academia, and government, for the purpose of improving process and performance. This website provides some free full-text articles, case studies, and other publications. Free resources are grouped by broad topic: Measurement, Industry Best Practices, and K-12 Education.

A partnership between 60 leading world companies and Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, this site provides full-text working papers (PDF) from 1994 through 2008 and index back to 1987. The site also includes a full-text newsletter, research summaries, and news.

The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School shares its research through Knowledge@Wharton - a bi-weekly online resource that provides business information and research from a variety of sources. These sources include analysis of business trends, interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty, recent business research articles, book reviews, and conference reports. This is the Human Resources web page.

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an Open Access repository containing scholarly research in the social sciences and the humanities. Most papers are available for free downloading. Authors and papers are ranked by the number of downloads. Includes accounting, management, economics, and law topics, among others.

Cornell University's International Workplace Studies Program is a leader in the study of Integrated Workplace Strategies (IWS). Research areas covered include cost, multiple work settings, leadership styles, teams, and more. Some IWSP publications are available free in PDF.

The Ray Marshall Center at the University of Texas conducts research on a broad array of human resource development issues including employment training, education, child care and welfare reform. Executive summaries and full-text reports are available for downloading.

Created by the Library at UC Berkeley, this site offers a well-organized grouping of sites to national and international labor resources