MCC LIBRARY RESOURCES

MGT 205, Creative Leadership, Spring 2008

Employee Benefits

This guide has been prepared by the MCC reference librarians to assist you with research for your class. If you need further assistance, please stop by the reference desk to consult with a librarian.

Reference Sources

Reference Sources are a good place to start your research. They can give you a concise overview of your topic, background information, facts & statistics, plus help you define and spell words, and focus your topic. Reference Sources include both books located in the Reference Collection and databases accessible on the Library Web Site under the link Reference Databases.

Call Number Title
REF.HA202.U51 Statistical Abstract of the United States
REF.HA203.C68 County & City Extra
REF.HA203.S735 State Trends
REF.HA203.S7314 State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State
REF.HB848.L54 The Lifestyle Market Analyst
REF.HC101.A184 County Business Patterns: IL
REF.HC101.A131222 Business Statistics of the United States
REF.HC110.C6.T7 Official Guide to Household Spending
REF.HC110.I5.R87 Official Guide to American Incomes
REF.HD30.27.U7 U.S. Market Trends and Forecasts
REF.HD38.15.B878

Business: the Ultimate Resource

REF HD62.7.B865 Business Plans Handbook: A Compilation of Actual Business Plans Developed by Small Businesses throughout North America
REF HD2346.U5S66 Small Business Sourcebook
REF HD8051.H36 Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics
REF HD8072.5.S73 The State of Working America
REF HF5549.A2A56 The Pfeiffer Annual
REF HF5549.A23T73 The Human Resources Glossary
REF HF5549.5.T7R68 The ASTD Reference Guide to Professional Human Resource Development Roles and Competencies
REF KF6491.D35 Tax Savvy for Small Business
REF RA407.3.H423 Health Care State Rankings
REF RA407.3.U57 Health, United States

 

Books & Media

The Stacks contain books and audiovisual items that may be borrowed or "checked out" of the library. These resources are useful when you need a more in-depth study of a topic than can be provided in reference sources alone. Use the Library's Online Catalog to determine what resources are available on your topic and the call number and location in the library. If our library does not own the necessary resources for your research needs, you may request additional items be ordered through interlibrary loan.

Possible search terms to use for your topic are:

Possible Keywords:

 Possible Subject Headings:
business costs health care costs
employee benefits health expenditures
health insurance and small business insurance, health
human resources medically uninsured

 

 personnel management
  small business

Article Databases

Periodicals consist of popular magazines, newspapers, trade and scholarly journals. Magazine & newspaper articles can be good sources to use for very current information, to focus on specific topics or aspects of a topic, to find reviews, and for opinions. Trade journals are helpful to follow trends and career opportunities within a field, and to find practical tips and techniques to use "on the job". Scholarly journals give details of actual research studies that have been conducted and/or scholarly treatment of discipline specific topics. All of these resources can be located using the article databases located on the library web site.

Recommended Databases for periodical articles

Database Name Vendor Name
CQ Researcher CQ Press
Academic Search Premier EBSCO
Business Source Elite EBSCO
Regional Business News EBSCO
ArticleFirst, ECO FirstSearch

Passwords to access the library databases from off-campus are available on the pink handout MCC Library Database Chart. If you have not received this handout, please ask for it at the Reference Desk.

Internet Resources

Recommended web sites for this subject are listed below. For additional web sites on this subject, refer to MCC Library's Web Sites by Subject link on the library web site.

Web Site Address
America's Health Insurance Plans www.ahip.org
Center for Studying Health System Change www.hschange.org
Employee Benefit Research Institute www.ebri.org
Health Insurance: U.S. Census Bureau www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html
Internal Revenue Service www.irs.gov
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey www.meps.ahcpr.gov/mepsweb/
Society for Human Resource Management www.shrm.org
U.S. Small Business Administration www.sba.gov


Remember to carefully evaluate information found on the Internet. Unlike most traditional print sources, Internet sources may not go through any review process before the information is made available to the public. Anyone can create and publish a web site. If you need help evaluating your sources, please ask at the Reference Desk for guidance. For critieria to use to evaluate your sources refer to our handout on Evaluating Sources. It is available at the Reference Desk.

 

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