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Free Human Resources Publications: Browse through our extensive list of free Human Resources magazines, white papers, downloads and podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics include recruiting, employee benefits, outsourcing and workforce management. Simply complete the application form and submit it. Remember to fill out the forms COMPLETELY. All are absolutely free to professionals who qualify.

PayCycle: Any easy online payroll service for both small businesses and accounting professionals. They're offering a free 30 day trial and 3 months at $9.99 each.
GovDocs.com: Failure to post labor laws can result in fines of up to $7500 per inspection. Learn how to inexpensively provide all the legally necessary information to your employees.

401kExchange.com: Provides employers and retirement advisors with comprehensive, objective data on thousands of Service Providers. A universal trading platform for buyers, sellers, and agents of buyers.
401kHelpCenter.com: Provides an easy and effortless way for plan sponsors, human resource personnel, retirement professionals, small business owners, and plan participants to obtain unbiased information specific to 401k plans.
Academy of Human Resources Development: A premier academic institution founded by Indian HRD professionals with the mandate of furthering the field of HRD.
American Arbitration Association: Up-to-the-minute information about mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
AngerManagementOnline.com: Anger usually costs one something: a job promotion, important relationships or maybe even health. These are all heavy prices to pay, when one can learn to control anger. This site offers an online class designed to help one recognize angry behaviors that have not worked in the past and to learn healthy new behaviors to replace them.
Benefits Forward: A news site for professionals in the field of employment benefits. Their goal is to provide the latest information about the benefits field and to host a community discussion regarding related issues.
Benefitsblog: A weblog devoted to benefits, tax and ERISA law.
BenefitsLink: Information and services for employers sponsoring employee benefit plans.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: The principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Business Research Lab: An organization which does HR Management and Employee Satisfaction Research. Site has a number of articles on the subject.
Clement Communications: Newsletters & posters on safety, quality, teamwork, ergonomics, sales, employment practices, customer service & OSHA Regulations.
Compensation Resources: A human resources consulting firm specializing in executive compensation, sales compensation, performance management, and litigation support, salary survey and market pricing.
Criteria Corp.: Provider of web-based pre-employment testing services that feature aptitude, personality and skills tests.
Dartnell Corp: Publishers of training videos, newsletters, audios, books, and workbooks.
Diversity Training University International: Offers free on-line resources, including Daily Diversity Lessons and courses, for people who need information fast and credentials in a rewarding profession.
EasyTraining.com: They're Management Consultants who specialize in hospitality, customer service, human resources, employee motivation, supervisory coaching, training and development. It's got a number of how-to articles.
eBenefits: Offers VirtualHR, a free one-stop human resources manager designed to streamline and automate the administrative tasks related to human resources and benefits management.
Economic Research Institute: Offers salary survey, compensation and cost-of-living database software. Their website provides links to helpful information including free access to many worldwide salary survey sources.
EffortlessHR: A web based human resources software which provides labor laws, compliance posters, and an employee management interface which includes employee time tracking and an employee portal. Their blog provides free information on the many human resources issues of today.
Employee Benefit Research Institute: Established in 1978, EBRI is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to original public policy research and education on economic security and employee benefits.
U.S. Employee Standards Administration: The largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Enforces and administers laws governing legally-mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime and family and medical leave (including Leave Without Pay - LWOP); equal employment opportunity in businesses with federal contracts and subcontracts; workers' compensation for certain employees injured on their jobs; internal union democracy and financial integrity, and union elections, which protect the rights of union members.
employeesurveys.com: A Business Research Lab web site specifically geared toward serving those who have an interest in employee surveys.
Employer & Employee.com: Designed to help the employer and employee handle workplace problems.
Employment Screening Resources: Employment background screening, with emphasis on legal compliance, Internet access and professional HR assistance. Site contains educational articles, reports and numerous free resources on safe hiring.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Office of: Part of the U.S. General Services Administration
ERE.net: The latest employment eligibility, background checks, and screening, news from other publications.
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA): The Official U.S. Department of Labor Page.
Federation of European Employers: Organisation for major employers operating across Europe. Founded in 1989 with financial assistance from the European Commission. Their aim is not to become the voice of employers in Europe, but to provide the extra support that HR departments require to adapt to the European dimension.
George's Employment Blawg: A St. Louis labor & employment lawyer looks at HR, labor law, and today’s workplace.
G.Neil Tools to Manage and Motivate People: Provides knowledgeable, friendly and comprehensive advice to business owners and managers dealing with employee communications, hiring and recruiting, laws and regulations, performance and motivation, policies and administration, training, discipline and firing procedures.
Halogen Software: Provides eSurvey and e360 degree feedback evaluation software, consulting and hosting services. Halogen e360 and eSurveyor are great for large-scale evaluations and surveys needing a custom look and feel with full reporting and analysis. Licensed or hosted solutions are available.
Hiring Revolution: Provides valuable advice, information, and insight into recruitment and retention for hiring managers and human resources professionals in the advertising and communications industries.
HR Advice.com: Designed to help employees, employers and human resources professionals meet the demands of the workplace. Will guide your company and individual decisions through personalized, interactive information and advice.
HR Communications: Full service provider of Employee communications & creator of the Human Resources Collaborative Suite; the comprehensive, integrated set of HR tools made specifically for non-programmers
HRMagazine: Provided by the Society for Human Resources Management.
HRnext.com: An informational HR site featuring daily news about HR, extensive free content in the form of articles, white papers, job descriptions, a dedicated search engine that searches only pre-selected sites, message boards, daily poll, and more.
HR-Software.net: Links to web based software resources for HR professionals and students.
HRTools.com: Covers hiring & recruiting, performance management, employee screening, relocation, training, benefits & compensation, and personnel policy.
HRZone: Human resources, personnel management, industrial and organizational psychology, employment and labor law, workers compensation, discrimination, and labor relations information.
Human Resource and Computer-Based Software Training Library: From HR Press.
Human Resource Management magazine: Covering the broad spectrum of contemporary human resource management, this journal provides practicing managers and academics with the latest concepts, tools, and information for effective problem solving and decision making in this field. Broad in scope, it explores issues of societal, organizational, and individual relevance. Journal articles discuss new theories, new techniques, case studies, models, and research trends of particular significance to practicing managers.
Human Resources Law Index: Clearinghouse Website exclusively devoted to workplace legal information.
Human Resource Management Information Center: Provides abstracts of HR articles in top 20 HR and business publications. Reprints of all articles available by fax or mail.
Humax: A training and assessment firm emphasizing social capital.
Innovative Employee Solutions: Provides payroll and benefits administration services to companies nationwide. Once employees are recruited IES assumes responsibility for paying taxes, insurance and selected fringe benefits.
Innovative HR Solutions: Attendance Points Manager ™ attendance software is an easy to use computer program that will manage your points based attendance policy.
InQuest: Get the information you need to accurately evaluate job candidates and hire the right ones. Their in-depth knowledge of employment laws assists you in complying with state and federal regulation.
Integrated Benefits Institute: A resource on emerging integrated benefit issues and trends and describes IBI's programs. IBI is a national, non-profit membership organization open to employers, insurers, health care providers, brokers, consultants and others interested in the evolution of integrated benefits.
Job Analysis & Personality Research: From Virginia Tech.
Laurel Hill Software: Produces Personnel Manager 2000, a software package for HR professionals.
Manager Assistant Software: Employee Performance software. Track emplyees time, reviews and more.
National Center for Employee Ownership: A private, nonprofit membership and research organization that serves as the leading source of accurate, unbiased information on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), broadly granted employee stock options, and employee participation programs.
National Employment Screening: Low cost employment screening and background checks. All legally permissible employment screening and background checks. Most reports returned instantly.
National Safety Council: Mission is "to educate and influence society to adopt safety, health and environmental policies, practices and procedures that prevent and mitigate human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable causes."
Occupational Health & Safety Administration: U.S. Department of Labor
PAQ Services, Inc.: They provide a Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) which is a structured job analysis questionnaire that measures job characteristics and relates them to human characteristics. PAQ scores can be used to compare jobs within a company or organization in order to achieve internal equity in compensation and other human resource issues. They can also assist the user to identify the right person for a specific job by identifying aptitudes, temperaments, interests, and job demands of the position.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: A U.S. federal government corporation that protects the retirement incomes of about 42 million American workers in more than 44,000 defined benefit pension plans.
Personnel Systems and Technologies Corporation: Describes the Common-Metric System, a computer-based job analysis system that is useful for ADA compliance, compensation, job classification and regrouping, job descriptions, performance appraisals, and employee selection.
POWERHiring: Founded by Lou Adler. Provides articles, video and audio clips on how to hire top talent. They offer a free Hiring Coach, packed with 30+ tools, techniques and wizards.
Procounsel Consultancy & Training: Human relations consultancy and training in the commercial and public sectors. Based in Great Britain.
Prove It!: Gauge the proficiency of potential employees anywhere and anytime. This interactive, online application provides a cost-effective way to accurately assess an applicant's skills from anywhere in the world. Results are immediate. The testing system is password driven. Tests are currently being offered both via subscription-based Internet service and as an Intranet application.
The Rainmaker Group: They work with employers in the areas of employee selection, employee retention, and employee coaching.
RecruitersCafe.com: A networking and split placement site for third-party recruiters and corporate hiring managers. Exclusively promoting qualified, short-list caliber talent.
Recruiter's Network: Association for Internet Recruiting. Resource for recruiting and HR professionals.
RegulatoryPosters.com: Your one-stop resource for the labor law notices the government requires every business to display.
RembrandtAdvantage: A provider of noted Human Resource tools and services for over ten years. Their flagship product, the Rembrandt Portrait, is a selection and development tool which has been endorsed by over 10 national associations as their only recommended profiling application.
Resources on Diversity: Resources on ethnic, cultural, and other minority diversity issues.
SampleEmployeeHandbook.com: Employee Handbook Template written by employment lawyers.
Salary.com: Extensive salary comparisons by zip code of employer.
SalaryExpert.com: Free Internet salary site that is licensed, shows its sources, displays conservative values and standard errors.
Society for Human Resources Management: Provides education and information services, conferences and seminars, government and media representation, online services and publications to more than 115,000 professional and student members throughout the world.
SocratEase: An online testing package that includes course management, testing and test tracking, built-in e-mail communication for discussion and questions, and a comprehensive course authoring tool. One-time cost for server software.
Strategic HR Review: Published by Melcrum Online. Stay up-to-date with the latest thinking on Human Resource management.
Talent Management: Talent Management, Employee Performance Management and Human Capital Management.Articles and white papers. Free download.
Talx: An application service provider (ASP) for HR, Benefits, and Payroll employee services.
Total Testing: They specialize in working with small to mid-sized companies that need a way to assess their candidates skills. They provide a service by helping these companies set up the testing online or with a CD, and they never charge any set up or licensing fees. They've got over 500 validated skills tests.
TrainersTools.com: Training programs (videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, books, assessments, games, trainers toolkits, audiotapes, etc.) from over 150 different training producers.
Trainport: Focuses on professional development in leadership, sales and customer service.
Uniform Guidelines: Provides the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (which have been adopted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Justice) and questions and answers on these uniform guidelines as well as pdf files on testing and assessment -- An Employer's Guide to Good Practices.
Universal Background Screening: Offers solutions designed to enhance security, reduce liability and improve stability. Employment screening services include comprehensive background checks, criminal searches, driving records, credit reports, employment verifications, reference checks and drug testing.
U.S. Department of Health: The United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
U.S. Law Books: Has a section on Employment Law.
WageAccess Compensation Survey: A multi-industry salary survey that includes over 500 benchmark positions and ensures complete participant confidentiality. Survey results can be customized and filtered by position, geographic location, industry and company size. Results also include a variety of descriptive statistics, compensation analysis tools and salary trends.
WageWeb: Over 160 benchmark positions with compensation datafrom over 1,250 member organizations.
Wonderlic: Has provided pre-employment testing since 1937. They've got individual tests to full-scale human resource consulting services.
Workforce: Information on online recruitment, human resources, training, employment law, discrimination, sexual harassment, including tips, articles and humor.
WorkRelationships.com: Their corporate specialty is improving work relationships -- through harassment and discrimination prevention training and consultation as well as training in such topics as dealing with difficult people and creative conflict resolution.
WorldatWork (formerly American Compensation Association): The professional association for compensation, benefits and total rewards.
Your Soul At Work: This book has special value for employers and HR managers. The career and performance development process presented in the book is based on extensive research done at GE and many other organizations, such as Lockheed Martin, EDS, Citibank, and Oracle. Corporations, large and small, use their techniques because they find that helping employees address their inner values and aspirations as well as the organization's needs at work is good for the bottom line.
Labor and Industrial Relations Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations School of Labor and Industrial Relations Michigan State University The Institute of Industrial Relations an "Organized Research Unit" of the University of California at Berkeley. Brings together faculty from several academic departments and supports multi-disciplinary research about labor and employment relations.
Organizations & Associations Academy of Human Resources Development Formed to ncourage systematic study of human resource development theories, processes, and practices; to disseminate information about HRD, to encourage the application of HRD research findings, and to provide opportunities for social interaction among individuals with scholarly and professional interests in HRD from multiple disciplines and from across the globe. American Board of Industrial Hygiene Information about Certification for the Practice of Industrial Hygiene American Industrial Hygiene Association Source for information on occupational and environmental health and safety issues. American Society for Training and Development Represents more than 70,000 members from 150 countries in the field of workplace learning and performance. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Mission: to promote the discovery / exchange of knowledge about human characteristics regarding system design. International Ergonomics Association The association of ergonomics and human factors societies around the world. International Personnel Management Assn Assessment Council The leading organization of personnel assessment professionals engaged in applications, research, and training. International Society for Performance Improvement International association dedicated to improving productivity and performance in the workplace. Represents more than 10,000 international and chapter members throughout the United States, Canada, and 40 other countries. Mission is to improve the performance of individuals and organizations through the application of Human Performance Technology. National Institute of Pension Administrators A national association representing the retirement and employee benefit plan administration profession. PENJERDEL Employee Benefits & Compensation Association A nonprofit corporation that sponsors educational programs for benefits and compensation professionals. Relocation Universe From the Employee Relocation Council. Issues such as transfer activity & costs, home sale & purchase, relocation policies. Society for Human Resource Management Represents more than 85,000 members worldwide. © 2000-2008, Krislyn Corporation. All rights reserved.

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