Tools & Resources: For Corporate Trainers & HR Professionals
Trade Publications
- Chief Learning Officer
Directed to senior-level corporate learning officers and executives responsible for the ongoing education and job-skills initiatives for the enterprise. Covers training and education impact on corporate productivity.
- HRO Today
Written for senior business leaders and decision-makers who recommend, specify and buy HR outsourcing services for their corporate and public sector organizations. Editorial content covers HR outsourcing experiences from the perspective of professionals, mergers and acquisitions, and industry trends.
- Human Resources Executive
Written primarily for vice presidents and directors of human resources departments in companies and nonprofit organizations with 500 or more employees. Focuses on strategic issues in HR and informs human resource decision-makers in large companies on matters of training and development, employee benefits, HRIS, Web-based solutions, retirement planning, testing and appraisal, as well as relocation and health and safety issues.
- IHRIM Journal
Serves as the publication for the International Association for Human Resource Information Management. Content is specifically written for executive management and senior-level human resources and information technology leadership, e.g., CEOs, CIOs, VPs, directors, university professors and students. Editorial is dedicated to increasing individual and organizational effectiveness in the workplace through visionary and evolving uses of technology. Also strives to foster innovative and strategic thinking in the field of human resource information systems.
- The Office Professional
Published to aid management support professionals in training office employees. Editorial content covers a variety of human relations topics, such as language skills, office policies, workforce diversity.
- Performance Improvement Journal
Published by the International Society for Performance Improvement and edited for practitioners of performance technology in the workplace. Articles provide specific guidelines on applications of performance technology to help readers expand and understand their goals. Content includes case studies, organizational development, how-to-features, guidelines for research, procedural models, updates on trends, ready-to-use job aids, review and field viewpoints.
- T+D
Reports on current practice, new theories and their application, and on trends in the fields of workplace learning and performance with emphasis on individual training in specific skills and system-wide strategies for corporate change.
- Training Magazine
Published for senior management professionals, full time training professionals, and senior human resources professionals. Focuses on the human side of business as it relates to performance and productivity in the workplace.
- Workforce Management
Established in 1992 as an integrated information resource that delivers HR trends and tools for business results. Provides human-resource decision-makers with the information they need, including such topics as workplace-related legal issues, ethics, diversity, employee benefits, hiring, retention, training, HRMS, learning management, recognition and incentives.
- Workplace HR & Safety
Edited for professionals and executive involved in human capital management. Offers ideas on developing corporate programs that address performance improvement, recognition practices, corporate travel and meetings, compensation, insurance and retirement plans, recruitment, training and development, automation, communication and expansion plans.
General Information
- NSF Special Report: Language and Linguistics
- Examines the mental and physical aspects of speech, why foreign speakers pronounce words differently from native speakers, how we learn language, why languages change, how changes spread through populations, endangered languages, dialects, and sign language. (National Science Foundation)