1. Ask The HR Experts is a page presented by the Australian Human Resources Institute. AHRI is Australia’s national association representing human resource and people management professionals.
2. Be a Storyteller: Tell Me About Your Career provides the first of three questions posed by Xhr/Xtreme Human Resources. Respondents provide their answers through various means, such as YouTube, email, Twitter (at 140 characters) or other creative means.
3. Brent Hodgen, Human Resources Manager, has over 11 years of human resource experience. He answers questions about his job and his career in this page at QA Technologies.
4. Drive Thru HR Radio Show: Trish McFarlane, a human resources professional with over 15 years of experience offers answer to questions posed by William Tincup and Bryan Wempen. They talk about about HRevolution, the HR Technology Conference, and what is going on in the world of business.
5. FAQ – Human Resources (Safe Harbor) is a resource for any U.S. organization that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or U.S. air carriers and ticket agents subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation (DoT).
6. Frequently Asked Questions – Human Resources is a Transportation Security Administration tool for employees. However, it provides an interesting look into HR programs that are bounded by Federal job guidelines.
7. Frequently Asked Interview Questions-HR Manager/Executive is formatted as a board where users ask questions and other users answer those questions. Currently, most questions deal with preparation for interviews as an HR manager or an executive.
8. HR Interview Questions and Answers provides key questions that you may be asked in an interview for a human resources position such as “What are your goals” and “Can you work under pressure”.
9. HR Interviews provides much of the same format as the previous link, but the questions are different, or posed differently. Questions include, “what are your greatest weaknesses” and “what are your career options right now”.
10. HR Questions and Answers provides quick answers to frequently-asked HR questions through the Society for Human Resource Management. Use the resources freely available to learn more.



11. HR Technology 2011 – Observations and Conclusions provides Mark Stelzner with a format to answer questions about the 14th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, what he calls “THE preeminent HR collective where actual business gets done.”
12. HR University is the Federal Government’s “one stop” training resource center for the Federal HR professional. The questions concern how to complete courses with this resource.
13. HRPCF Frequently Asked Questions [PDF] provides answers to the Human Resources Professional Career Framework.The HRPCF is a framework for HR professionals in any HR position across the entire enterprise (in the US and abroad) to map out their career path.
14. Human Resources Articles, offered by Monster as advice to people who want to enter the field of HR, presents questions such as “Why would I want to work in HR?” and “What are the common HR career paths?”
15. Human Resources is not formatted as a typical question-and-answer venue, but the author does answer questions such as: what is HR consulting and what are the prospects for an HR officer.
16. Human Resources Career provides answers to questions such as: why enter human resources, what can you learn, and what a human resources career can grow into.
17. Human Resources career? This Answers.com site provides a number of answers to a page filled with questions about human resources careers and degrees.
18. Human Resources Career Guide offers quite a few human resources-related questions. The questions are listed in the Web site’s vertical gray band on the left and down a bit. When they are clicked on, the answers appear at the top right of the website.
19. Human Resources Management: HR FAQs, HR Basics, Strategic HR is About.com’s resource for human resources management personnel. They offer special HR tools, special approaches to management, and access to professional Human Resources associations, education and publications.



20. Meet a Human Resources Manager: Deirdre Honner, an associate director of human resources at a college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, answers questions about why she got into human resources, what skills and education are needed, and what a typical day is like.
21. Q&A: Personnel careers, presented by The Times Sunday edition online, questions Jessica Rolph, training and development adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, about career opportunities for graduates in human resources.
22. Q&A: PHR — Professional in Human Resource? This site is filled with user questions that seem to be answered by other users. Scroll down to find more questions about human resources education and career choices.
23. Questions to ask during HR interview offers a different take on the HR interview…from the job applicant’s perspective. Questions here include “How soon are you looking to fill this position,” and “Is there a structured career path at this company”.
24. University of Toronto’s Career Center asks, “What could I do with a degree in industrial relations and human resources?” [PDF] Other questions include where previous graduates worked and answers about further resources in finding jobs and developing skills for this career.
25. upstartHR is a site created by Ben Eubanks that poses a question at this link; however, the entire site is filled with answers to questions posed by entry-level HR and seasoned veterans.

Indeed, the Internet can be a great place to look for information — as long as you verify that it comes from a reputable source. If you have questions related to human resources, you can have them answered with a little help from the Internet. Here are 20 useful Q & A sites for human resources professionals:

Employee Benefits

If you have questions about employee benefits, you can turn to the following web sites. They will help you find answers to questions about personal leave, health insurance and what happens to benefits after someone leaves employment.

1. Retirement And Health Care Coverage: This helpful resource from the United States Department of Labor can help you understand health care coverage after retirement. Helpful as you explain options to older workers.
2. Retirement Plans, Pension and Social Security: FindLaw.com offers this great resource. Get your questions about retirement planning, pensions and Social Security answered. Plenty of additional resources are provided.
3. A Q&A on the CLASS Act: Help employees better understand their options with long-term care and understand the results of the CLASS Act. A great resource from Employee Benefit News.
4. FederalSoup.com: Have your questions about federal benefits answered. This is aimed at current and retired federal employees. If you are a human resources professional interested in having your questions about these types of benefits answered, this is a great site.
5. Fox & Fox: If you have questions about benefits, and providing benefits plans, you can go to this consultant web site to learn more. Find out about cash benefit plans, welfare benefit plans, pensions and more.
6. Compensation and Working Conditions: The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a great guide on compensation benefits, as well as other issues. Find answers to your questions with help from this great resource.
7. Retirement Pension Plans: Get the basics with this great overview of retirement plans. Looks at laws affecting pension plans, and lets you know what you need to make sure that you are in compliance with federal regulations.

Employment Law

For those who want a refresher in the rules governing hiring and firing, and other issues of employment law, such as sexual harassment, these Q & A web sites can be quite helpful.

8. HR and Employment Law Topics: This resource is organized so it is easy to find answers to your questions about different topics in employment law. Perfect for professionals who want to be in compliance.
9. Find It! By Topic: This is an awesome resource from the Department of Labor. Get all of your questions about employment law answered quickly. Helpful information on employment law from the government.
10. Employment Law – Guide to Employment and Labor Law: If you are looking for help on employment law issues, you can go to this site. You can get help for questions of rights, discrimination, benefits, and more. It’s a great resource for HR professionals.
11. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: The EEOC’s web site is a great resource if you are interested in employment law as it relates to hiring and discrimination. You can find answers to questions, and learn more about different requirements under the law. Get it from the source.
12. Employment Laws: Get your questions answered about topics including sexual harassment, child labor, minimum wage, layoffs, discrimination and more. A helpful resource that lets you know what’s on the books. Includes sections on different state employment laws. You can even find forms related to different issues of employment.
13. Employment Law Center: NOLO, the respected law web site, offers information for human resources professionals regarding employment law. Learn more about employment law topics, and have questions about different issues answered.
14. Employment Law Information Network: Find answers to your questions about employment law. Get information aimed specifically at helping HR professionals, as well as the latest news related to employment law.
15. LawMemo: Get the latest in employment law, and learn about the developments that will affect you as a HR professional. Get answers about different employment law cases in plain English that you can understand.

Workers Compensation

One of the most interesting subjects related to human resources is workers compensation. It can also be very difficult to understand and contain a number of twists and turns. Get your questions about workers compensation answered with the help of these web sites.

16. Workers’ Compensation Law Questions and Answers: Head over to LawGuru and find answers to questions about workers compensation. Real lawyers answer your questions, and you can look through the answers others have received. Chances are, your question already has an answer.
17. WorkersCompensation.com: You can learn more about workers compensation from this web site. Includes answers to questions about workers comp in different states, as well as forms and other information you might need. Plenty of ways to have your questions answered on this web site.
18. Workers compensation: The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University provides an overview of workers compensation that can answer many of your questions. This great resource can be helpful in terms of the basics as you navigate your options and the issues that surround workers comp.
19. Workers Compensation Law: If you want information about workers comp, you can get your questions answered at Legal Law Help. This site provides information on workers comp, as well as information related to other issues. A great resource if you are looking for more help on workers compensation.
20. Workers’ Compensation: Learn about workers comp from a great About.com expert. You can get an overview of the law, and you can also get access to different resources that will help you answer questions about setting up a workers comp policy and more. A great place to start if you want to be up on workers compensation.

The following 25 free and freemium Web apps for human resources and hiring are divided into two categories, and each link is listed alphabetically within those categories. All applications are Web-based tools or SaaS, so there is no install and no IT infrastructure required.

Recruitment and Talent Management

1. ApplicantStack is an affordable and easy-to-use applicant tracking and eRecruitment software designed specifically for small to mid-size businesses. ApplicantStack is delivered as SaaS.
2. ClickTime Web Timesheet is an easy-to-use online timesheet system for time tracking, billing, cost accounting, and payroll. Our intuitive interface, powerful reports, and hands-on customer service have earned high praise from customers like Target, Xerox, VISA & other businesses in 54+ countries.
3. Halogen helps to leverage the potential of every employee, and confidently lead executive discussions on a host of workforce and talent management issues. Align your workforce, improve productivity, reduce costs and develop human capital as a competitive advantage.
4. InfinityHR contains an employee portal that provides complete HR and benefits automation. No other HRIS-HRMS system can match Infinity’s workforce management solutions.
5. Jobscience has been a market leader in human capital management solutions since 1999, providing a comprehensive suite of web-based products and services that meet the needs of any sized business across any industry.
6. KnowledgeSum adopted SAAS to deliver top of the line labor management and scheduling services that are powerful, secure, auditable, and intuitive. You have several options available for your business size and budget.
7. Open Applicant is a powerful Open Source applicant tracking and candidate assessment tool that brings a wide variety of features and capabilities to human resource professionals and hiring managers to make the recruiting and hiring process easy and effective.
8. Ramco HCM addresses the entire employee life cycle. Delivered as on premises enterprise software, or through a completely outsourced BPO, Ramco HCM provides all types of companies with the leading edge capabilities needed to attract and retain the best workforce.
9. StarTracka is the next practice Performance and Talent Management solution that understands the challenges of managing your people, and works to engage, motivate, reward and retain them. Features include career plans, mentoring and more.
10. StepStone Solutions is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Total Talent Management Solutions, covering talent acquisition (e-recruitment) and talent management.
11. TimeTrex tracks and monitors employee attendance accurately in real-time from anywhere in the world. They offer five different ways to track employee attendance that fits any company or budget, all in an Open Source environment. Cost for software is per employee.
12. Web TimeSheet Time & Attendance Edition allows users to track time off, adjust payroll based on overtime calculations, and set up limits for minimum or maximum time submissions. Produced by Replicon, Inc., a global leader in timesheet and expense management software.
13. Workstream TalentCenter 7.0 represents the next generation of Talent Management – empowering the enterprise to connect business objectives directly to the workforce as never before.

HR Tasks

14. EmpXtrack Starter Edition is a software suitable for the companies of all sizes that want to improve their HR Management using web-based tools. It empowers HR department to manage the employee data through software and enable employees to use HR services like leave, complaints and request, expenses through electronic forms.
15. EazyHRM offers a complete human resources management solution that integrates and streamlines your HR operations while improving compliance and reporting. Part of EazyBusiness, building Open Source cloud-based business applications.
16. Gradience software, even Gradience Basics, gives you the power to handle a wide range of HR and personnel management tasks, right from your desktop. Provides detailed, pre-designed reports you can customize in nearly countless ways (and export in PDF, html or Excel).
17. JustLogin is an office administration and employee collaboration tools that makes information flow easy and speedy. You get to process leave and claim applications, conduct survey, booking meeting rooms and communicate, all without the paper trial and bottlenecks that usually come with such functions.
18. Neocase HR is a trusted case management solution used in HR Shared Services Centers and HR Call Centers at large corporations such as Air France-KLM and Renault-Nissan.
19. OrangeHRM aims to be the world’s leading Oen Surce HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.
20. Sage, Inc. develops industry-leading solutions that help organizations transform the way they manage their people, fixed assets and planning processes. Their integrated set of HR solutions to help you more efficiently, and cost-effectively manage your employees through modular, affordable and adapatable solutions.
21. Softworks provides HR reports including general attendance, overtime, flexitime, absence, holidays etc to ensure optimum productivity levels. But, they also supply much more. Visit the site to learn about their possibilities for various businesses.
22. The Human Equation builds systems and processes to support an enterprise’s efforts to reach their business objectives and develops technologies and methodologies that support an enterprise’s efforts to build and reinforce effective risk management practices.
23. UltiPro, from Ultimate Software, is the strategic end-to-end HRMS/payroll and talent management software solution that makes everyone in your organization more effective. The end result is an empowered HR and payroll staff that can access critical information quickly and perform routine business activities more efficiently.
24. Vista HRMS contains a HR component that unleashes the power to create and maintain an organized database of employees, applicants and positions. You can use the system for the simple job of tracking basic employee data or to manage any type of employee information to support your own internal HR programs.
25. WaypointHR is an Open Source human resource database, providing organisations worldwide with a free, stable, immediate and flexible Human Resource Management System (HRIS) in which to electronically store staff data and personnel records, doing away with the need for paper-based records.

Business Organizations and Human Resources Management

Learn more about business organizations, and learn about human resources management.

1. Training and Human Resources Development: UC Irvine offers a helpful course on human resources, and even allows you to tailor your training to your own needs.
2. Individuals, Groups and Organizations: This MIT course helps you understand different dynamics in business environments.
3. Human resources: recruitment and selection: The Open University offers a helpful look at human resources, and how to recruit for a business organization.
4. Human Resources for Health: Helpful information and more from this resource that looks at human resources in health business organizations.
5. Strategic HR Management: Get a handle on strategy for better managing human resources in business organizations.
6. Organizational Processes: Learn the basics of business organization, and how it works.
7. People and Organizations: Studies the evolution of current organizational cultures. Helpful for a number of HR professionals in a variety of fields.
8. Managing Organizational Change: This Harvard lecture offers an interesting insight into how to lead through changes in organizations.
9. Managing projects through people: Learn how to more effectively manage people and their projects.

Business Policy and Law

In human resources, it is helpful to understand different aspects of business policy and law. Here are some courses that can help you learn more about that.

10. Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy: Learn about urban labor policy, and get some policy ideas.
11. Labor Economics: Get a basic overview of the economics behind labor to understand how the system works.
12. Industrial Organization and Public Policy: Learn how public policy works in terms of industrial organization and business practices.
13. Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions: Considers different aspects of power that can help as you work to set HR policy.
14. Human rights and law: Understand the basic look at human rights, and law related to work.
15. Company law in contect: The Open University provides a helpful look at the nature of business, and of business law.
16. Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager: MIT offers this course as a way to help you understand the basic legal issues faced by companies.
17. Theories of Public Policy: Tufts University includes interesting insights on public policy, which can be useful for the human resources manager.
18. Frameworks of Urban Governance: A helpful look at how urban areas are governed, providing insights that can be used for corporate policy.

Ethics

Business and company ethics are very important to the proper running of a company. Human resources workers need to understand these issues, since they address them regularly.

19. Corporate Governance: This course from Connexions offers insight into how corporate governance works, and the ethics behind it.
20. Business Ethics: Get insight into how business ethics work, and how to promote them.
21. Creating an ethical organization: The Open University takes you through the steps you can take to promote ethical practices in the organizational environment.
22. Literature, Ethics and Authority: MIT provides a look at how you can share ethical norms with those in your organization.
23. The Case for Sustainable Businesses: Gresham College shares insights on the ethics of working toward sustainability.
24. Ethical Practice: Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and the Purpose of the Corporation: Another MIT course, this one looks at the basics of ethical practice for business.
25. Ethics: Western Governors University offers a basic look at ethics.
26. Introduction to Business: This provides a basic overview, from Kaplan University, of what business is about and touches on ethics.

People

Learn about how to handle people, and work with them, in these courses that can help you increase your effectiveness in human resources.

27. Negotiation and Conflict Management: Consider different situations and strategies for overcoming conflict in business settings.
28. Building and Leading Effective Teams: MIT looks at how you can create effective teams of employees.
29. Making and using rules: Get an idea of how to develop rules and regulations for business settings.
30. Managing relationships: Another offering from The Open University, this course is designed to help you learn how to more effectively work with others.
31. Giving and Receiving Feedback: BBC Academy offers this helpful course on how you can better give feedback — and what to do with feedback that is provided to you.
32. Leading Organizations: Get a handle on the importance of leadership, and how to inspire people.
33. Leadership Development: Another course focused on helping you become a better leader.
34. Strategic view of performance: Learn about how you can encourage better performance from business employees.

Behavior

It can be extremely helpful to understand a little bit about human behavior when you work in human resources. Here are some great courses on human behavior.

35. Managerial Psychology: Learn theories of behavior, and how to apply them, from MIT.
36. Emotional Intelligence: Connexions offers this course on understanding emotion and applying it to your interactions with others.
37. Power Play: Learn about the dynamics of power and how it is used in this course from Gresham College.
38. Does attractiveness rule the world?: Another offering from Gresham College, this course looks at the effect that attractiveness has on behavior.
39. Entrepreneurial behaviour: The Open University offers a course on the traits and behaviors that mark entrepreneurs.
40. Management Theory: The University of Tokyo offers a course that helps you learn about management, and how it relates to behavior.
41. Appearance and Human Behavior: Learn about how human appearance can affect behavior from this course at Korea University.
42. Political Behavior: This course from MIT offers an interesting look at political behavior. It has applications in business as well.
43. Developmental Psychology: Get an overview of how human behavior develops from UC Berkeley.

Communication

Expressing yourself is essential in human resources, and you need to be able to communicate concepts to others. These courses can help you brush up on your communication skills.

44. Business Communications in the Age of Spin: Learn about how business communication works.
45. How to Conduct a Meeting in an Intercultural Setting: Techniques for communicating effectively with an intercultural group.
46. Communicating With Data: An overview of how data can help you make better decisions.
47. Introduction to business cultures: Learn about different cultures of business, and how to communicate within them.
48. Toolkit: Internal Communications: This helpful course at the Open Courseware Consortium offers a look at how to communicate more effectively on an internal basis.
49. Communicating in Cyberspace: Learn how to communicate online, and how to be more effective in an online environment.
50. Intro to Tech Communication: Learn about technical writing, and how to produce proper reports.

The top 50 human resources blogs listed below can help you stay up to speed in today’s HR environment. These blogs were chosen for their popularity as well as for their recent updates. They are listed alphabetically within each category.

HR Basics

1. Diggings: This blog is about recruitment advertising, media, publishing, HR, work, and technology, among other things.
2. Evil HR Lady: Send your HR questions to the Evil HR Lady. No, she won’t bite your head off.
3. HRM Business Practices and Notes: Learn about the required set of management and leadership skills based on sound business principles before you can effectively manage.
4. Human Resources Blog: Read articles, latch onto free sample policies and other resources for people who work in HR or who manage or lead people.
5. Michael Specht: This blog looks at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, HR and recruitment.
6. Mister HR’s Blog: OperationsInc, an HR outsourcing and consulting company, provides a blog that focuses on HR-related information.
7. People Platform HR: This is a “let’s get practical” approach to HR, where form and skill count.
8. Punk Rock HR: Although this site was acquired by Recruitingblogs.com in 2009, this did not change Laurie Ruettimann’s unorthodox approach to the workplace.
9. Rehaul: Lance Haun rethinks the ways people and business react in this blog.
10. Renegade HR: Renegade HR uses a simple approach to human resources: Hire great people and help them do amazing things that drive your business.
11. Seasonal Human Resources Blog: Use this blog to learn about links, thoughts and useful tips for seasonal human resources managers.
12. Systematic HR: This blog stays at the intersection of HR strategy and HR technology.
13. The HR Capitalist: Kris Dunna has a strong interest in areas like recruiting and performance management, but he keeps an eye to the thousand other areas that impact HR Generalists at every level.

At Work

14. All Things Workplace: Steve Roesler teaches smart people practical ways to become extraordinary.
15. Ask a Manager: If you believe good management is about being “normal,” then you can validate your beliefs with this blog.
16. Authentic Organizations: This blogger is interested in the authenticity and power of the collective, of people working together.
17. Cranky Middle Manager: The BBC, ABC and BusinessWeek Online call Cranky Middle Manager one of the best HR blogs out there.
18. Flip Chart Fairy Tales: A former HR manager reflects on business, the world of work and the general “organizational crap that we all have to put up with in the course of our employment.”
19. Gautam on Organizations 2.0: Guatam offers his point of view on collaborative, open and transparent organizations, work and people.
20. HR Bartender: Sharlyn Lauby is an HR pro turned consultant. She created HR Bartender so people would have a friendly place to discuss workplace issues.
21. HR Minion: Follow Shauna Moerke to get your fill of human resources from a minion’s point of view.
22. Orgtheory: This blog includes a variety of scholarly perspectives on organizational practices and experiences.
23. Work Happy Now! The Work Happy Now! blog gives tips, advice and stories that help any employee or CEO improve their work environment.
24. Workplace Learning Today: is a group effort by senior Brandon Hall Research analysts to provide readers with a daily summary of news, events, commentary, and research on all aspects of workplace learning.

Leadership

25. Execupundit.com: Commentary by Michael Wade on leadership, ethics, management and life.
26. Great Leadership: This blog offers opinions and information on
27. leadership and leadership development.
28. Leading Blog: This blog covers everything regarding leadership, from books to visionaries.
29. Simply Lisa: Lisa Rosendahl is an HR leader with over 15 years of professional HR experience in public, private and government organizations.
30. The Engaging Brand Blog: Engaging people internally and externally with your brand is so important and this blogger loves helping people find innovative ways of engaging people.

Career Moves

31. A Different Kind of Work: Learn how to realize your full potential, wherever and however that may be, through this blog.
32. Brazen Careerist: Learn that you’re not alone when you get to that intersection of work and life.
33. Chief Happiness Officer: Alex Kjerulf is author of Happy Hour is 9 to 5, because you need to love what you do for a living.
34. Experiments in Lifestyle Design: Tim Ferriss is best known for his book, The 4-Hour Workweek. Learn more about his lifestyle design at his blog.
35. Jibber Jobber: The Jibber Jobber blog talks about how to manage a job search and optimize your network relationships for the life of your career.

Recruitment

36. ERE: You can find recruiting intelligence and community at this blog.
37. HR Tests – Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection: Learn about the science and practice of matching employer needs with individual talents.
38. Jon Ingham’s Strategic HCM Blog: HCM is a new name for HR. It is also much more than just a ‘decision science’ focused on measurement and benchmarking. Learn more at this blog.
39. Recruitment Views: Learn about recruitment, social media and more from this recruitment consultant.
40. SixDegrees from Dave: Dave Mendoza is recognized for his expertise in the integration of sourcing methodologies, employment branding and recruitment techniques.
41. The Recruiters Lounge: Follow this blog for information about recruiting conferences, job search tips and rants and commentary.
42. The Talent Buzz: The Talent Buzz is an online news and information channel for the recruiting and human resources community.

HR Law and Compensation

43. Compensation Force: Practical news, information, tips and musings about employee performance and compensation.
44. George’s Employment Blawg: George Lenard has over twenty years of experience in all aspects of labor and employment law.
45. OFCCP Blog Spot: This blog provides a source for the latest news and regulatory information in the EEO/Affirmative Action field.
46. SafetyAtWorkBlog: Kevin Jones covers news about work safety as well as issues that any HR or employer might want to learn.
47. The Employment Law Post: The blogs located on this site cover a wide range of employment law issues, human resources best practices and news that affects businesses.
48. Today’s Workplace: Learn about the latest developments in workplace rights and employment law, written by Paula Brantner, Executive Director of Workplace Fairness.
49. Worker’s Comp Insider: Count on this blog to learn more about workers’ compensation, risk management and more.
50. Workplace Prof Blog: Richard Bales, law professor and associate dean of faculty at Northern KY University, offers this blog on workplace law.

1. EduChoices: As a pioneering effort The Open University has provided a free online version of their ‘Human Resources: Recruitment and Selection’ course, that is an undergraduate-level course providing the complete review of the hiring process from Human resource perspective.
2. Courseware on Industrial Relation: Prepared by Dr. Jacobo Ramirez, this course ware relates the Theme of Human Resource Management (HRM) with interests and career aspirations. This courseware deals with all issues like staffing the organization, designing jobs and teams, developing skillful employees, recognizing approaches for improving performances and rewarding employees  success.
3. Human Resource Health: It is a manuscript provided on areas of planning, producing and managing human resources for health. Here one can have all the best updates in human resource sector in form of news, articles and features.
4. Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business: This journal publishes original, unpublished manuscripts in co-ordination to accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing. It is published by the Academic and Business Research Institute.
5. Optimum Online: This is a Journal of Public Sector Management as produced by The Summit Group from aid and help from Centre of Governance, University of Ottawa. This online journal is the best place for publication focusing over national and international topics at the managerial front of public administration. It publishes theoretical as well as applied materials to deal with current and future needs of the public sector management.
6. Strategic HR Management: This courseware provided by MIT University is based upon human resource management strategies on issues of systematical and strategic thinking on managing human assets and methods to implement those strategies to have a competitive edge and advantage.  It deals with human resource topics like reward systems, performance management, high-performance human resource systems, training and development, recruitment, retention, equal employment opportunity laws, work-force diversity, and union-management relationships.
7. Human Resource Asia: This is dedicated to the two journals for business management professional as to provide weekly review of the most relevant journals for HRM, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development, training, management, development, personnel, employee satisfaction, organizational change, employee development, management and managerial psychology.

The most common areas of focus for this degree program is human resource dynamics, laws and regulations governing human resources, compensation systems, labor relations, civil rights, sex roles, organization policy and employee training and appraisal.

Most of the people who pursue an online masters qualification in this discipline do so as a result of high competitiveness that exists in the job market today. In most cases, these people have a bachelors qualification in a similar or related discipline. Yet for others, it is work experience that has driven them into aspiring to become human resource managers at a higher level.

When it comes to selecting an online program, accredited institutions are the best to choose. The university should expose you to the interpersonal aspect of human resource in case you have freshly graduated with a bachelors degree in human resource management. In case you have been working, the masters degree offers a new, fresh scholarly approach to human resource challenges affecting the corporate arena and how best they can be solved.

One good institution for acquiring this valuable masters qualification is Abilene Christian University. The program offered here contains 36 units which are organized into weekly online discussion boards and assignments. A local practicum which is supervised is mandatory to all students.

At the University of Maryland, the qualification that one gets is referred to as Master of Science in Management, Human resource management. Here you need to have credits in all the 15 core units. Additionally, you need to have 21 credits in units of specialization in human resources. The capstone classes are designed to ensure that the students have a complete mastery of the discipline by the time they are acquire the masters degree.

One main advantage of pursuing an online masters degree is that it lasts for a short duration. At St. Leo University, Florida, the program lasts for a maximum of 6 months. Students take only two courses each semester and each semester lasts for 8 weeks. The course exposes students to the fundamentals of the business world  as far as human resources are concerned.