IR and HR Journals

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A list of journals organized alphabetically available online or in print about the areas of Industrial Relations and Human Resources. These journals are primarily accessed through the University of Toronto Library website.

A - H | I - J | K - Z

Each journal entry has several subject keywords that relate to the subjects they cover. Categories on this page include:

  • Business Management
  • Compensation, Benefits and Pensions
  • Diversity
  • Economics
  • Employment Law
  • Employment Relations
  • Human Resource Management
  • Industrial Psychology
  • Industrial Relations
  • International Relations
  • Labour & Employment Relations
  • Labour Laws & Legislation
  • Labour Markets
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Personnel Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Trade Unionism
  • Training & Development
  • Work & Employment

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A

Academy of Management Journal

"The Academy of Management Journal presents cutting edge research that provides readers with a forecast for new management thoughts and techniques. All articles published in the journal must make a strong empirical and/or theoretical contribution. All empirical methods including (but not limited to) qualitative, quantitative, or combination methods are represented. Articles published in the journal are clearly relevant to management theory and practice and identify both a compelling practical management issue and a strong theoretical framework for addressing it." - JSTOR

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1963 - 2017

Subject keywords: Management, Management Theory, Management Research, Organization

Academy of Management Review

"AMR is a theory development journal for management and organization scholars around the world. AMR publishes novel, insightful and carefully crafted conceptual articles that challenge conventional wisdom concerning all aspects of organizations and their role in society. The journal is open to a variety of perspectives, including those that seek to improve the effectiveness of, as well as those critical of, management and organizations. Each manuscript published in AMR must provide new theoretical insights that can advance our understanding of management and organizations." - JSTOR 

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1976 - current

Subject keywords: Management, Management Theory, Organization, Organizational Behaviour

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B

Benefits Canada

"Magazine covering pension fund investment and employee benefits." - GALE

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1993 - current

Subject keywords: Employee Benefits, Pensions, Human Resources, Investments

Berekely Journal of Employment and Labor Law

"The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL) is the leading law review for employment and labor law scholarship. BJELL articles address a range of legal issues of interest to both scholars and practitioners. Topics include employment discrimination, labor law, public sector employment, employee benefits, and workforce participation. The Journal, published twice a year, includes scholarly articles, student-authored comments and case notes, book reviews, and topical essays." - JSTOR

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1993 - current

Subject keywords: Labour Laws & Legislation, Employment Laws & Legislation, Employee Benefits, Labour & Employment Relations

British Journal of Industrial Relations

"The British Journal of Industrial Relations is a journal of work and employment relations, with a focus on the institutions, policies, and practices associated with these relations and their implications for matters of economy and society. It is both multidisciplinary and international in its scope, contributors, and readership." - Wiley Online Library

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1966 - current

Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: v. 1 (1963) - v. 50 (2012)

Subject keywords: Industrial Relations, Trade Unionism, International Relations, Employment Relations

Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ)

"The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups." - Cambridge University Press

Volume years available online via electronic access: 2016 - 2022

Subject keywords: Human Rights, Business Ethics, Business & Economics, Political Science - Civil Rights

Business and Politics

"The journal features articles that use the tools of social science to illuminate contemporary policy issues such as business strategy in weakly institutionalized environments, private regulation and privatization of services, and the relationship between business organizations, nongovernmental organizations, courts, and political parties. It includes articles that offer new insights on bedrock concerns of international trade, industrial policy, lobbying and public policy, regulation, non-market strategy, and firms as both targets of and catalysts for political activity. The journal also publishes selected cases and commentaries on the interaction of politics and corporate strategy." - Cambridge University Press

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1999 - current

Subject keywords: Business & Politics, Business Planning, Politics & Government, Policy

Business and Society Review

"Business and Society Review publishes articles that address a wide range of ethical and social issues concerning the relationships between business, society, the environment, and the public good. Articles in the Review present original theoretical and empirical research that contribute directly to the business and society field." - Wiley Online Library

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1974 - current

Subject keywords: Business & Society, Business Ethics, Business Legislations & Regulations, Business Organization

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C

Canadian HR Reporter

"HR Reporter deliver in-depth, HR-related news coverage from Canada and around the world, covering a variety of topics such as employment law, recruitment, mental health, diversity, performance management and employee engagement." - HR Reporter

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1998 - 2021

Subject keywords: Human Resource Management, Personnel Management, Employment Law, Training & Recruitment

Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal

"The Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal (CLELJ) is a collaborative publication of Lancaster House and the Queen’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, providing in-depth analysis of key issues and commentary on legislative and case law developments. With articles written from both a scholarly and a practice-oriented point of view, the CLELJ covers topics relating to labour and employment law, human rights, pension and benefits law, workplace privacy, occupational health and safety, and international and comparative labour law" - Queen's University Faculty of Law

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1969 - current

Subject keywords: Compensation & Benefits, Work/Life Balance, Salary & Wages, Labour Markets

Compensation & Benefits Review

"Compensation & Benefits Review is the premiere journal for compensation and benefits strategy and management. Written by top compensation and benefits professionals and academic experts, CBR articles provide detailed analyses and comprehensive information on all aspects of compensation and benefits design and implementation. CBR aims to address important and difficult issues at all levels (e.g. income inequality, demographic wage gaps, strategic compensation, benefits strategy, total rewards, individual motivation and performance, work-life balance)." - SAGE Journals

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1969 - current

Subject keywords: Compensation & Benefits, Work/Life Balance, Salary & Wages, Labour Markets

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E

Economic and Industrial Democracy

"Economic and Industrial Democracy is an international peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the study of initiatives designed to enhance the quality of working life through extending the democratic control of workers over the workplace and the economy. How those initiatives are affected by wider political, economic and technological factors are also of interest. Special emphasis is laid on international coverage of empirical material, including discussions of the social and economic conditions in various countries." - SAGE Journals

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1980 - current

Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: v.1 (1980) - v. 32 (2011)

Subject keywords: Industrial Democracy, Industrial Relations, Personnel Management, Organizational Behaviour

European Journal of Industrial Relations

"The European Journal of Industrial Relations is the principal English-language, peer-reviewed forum for the analysis of developments in European industrial relations and their theoretical and practical implications. It is particularly oriented to cross-national comparative research." - SAGE Journals

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1995 - current

Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: volume 1, no. 1 (March 1995) - volume 17, no. 4 (December 2011)

Subject keywords: Industrial Relations - European, Work & Employment, Cross-National

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G

Gender, Work and Organization

"The Gender, Work & Organization Journal provides an arena dedicated to debate and analysis of gender relations, the organization of gender and the gendering of organizations. The Gender, Work & Organization has published multi-disciplinary, high quality qualitative empirical research on gendered power relations and identities in the study of work and organization exploring issues of inclusion and exclusion. It has also published quantitative work guided by critical epistemologies on issues such as the gender pay gap, flexible work, career patterns, women on boards and access to leadership positions." - Wiley Online Library

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1994 - current

Subject keywords: Gender Relations, Diversity in the Workplace, Critical Management Studies, Organizational Behaviour

Group and Organization Management

"Group & Organization Management (GOM) publishes the work of scholars and professionals who extend management and organization theory and address the implications of this for practitioners.  Innovation, conceptual sophistication, methodological rigor, and cutting-edge scholarship are the driving principles. Topics include teams, group processes, leadership, organizational behavior, organizational theory, strategic management, organizational communication, gender and diversity, cross-cultural analysis, and organizational development and change, but all articles dealing with individual, group, organizational and/or environmental dimensions are appropriate. " - SAGE Journals

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1976 - current

Subject keywords: Organizational Behaviour, Leadership, Group Relations Training, Training & Development

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H

Harvard Business Review

"Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration." - Business Source Premier

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1922 - current

Volume years currently available in print at the IRHR Library: The past six months & current issue. SERIALS - READING ROOM - HAR 

Subject Keywords: Strategic Planning, Business Management, Economics, Administration

HR Magazine

"Feature articles providing insights into innovative approaches and successful programs, commentary, compensation, legislation and news of note aimed at professionals in human resource management." - Business Source Premier

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1991 - 2022

Subject Keywords: Human Resource Management, Personnel Management, Human Resource Planning & Strategy, Employee Rights

Human Relations

"Human Relations addresses the social relations in and around work – across the levels of immediate personal relationships, organizations and their processes, and wider political and economic systems. It is international in its scope. The journal is grounded in critical social science that challenges orthodoxies and questions current organizational structures and practices. It promotes interdisciplinarity through studies that draw on more than one discipline or that engage critically across disciplinary traditions. " - SAGE Journals 

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1947 - current

Subject Keywords: Interpersonal relations, Work & Society, Organizational Behaviour, Work & Organization

Human Resource Development Quarterly

"Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) is the first scholarly journal focused directly on the evolving field of human resource development (HRD). It provides a central focus for research on human resource development issues as well as the means for disseminating such research. HRDQ recognizes the interdisciplinary nature of the HRD field and brings together relevant research from the related fields, such as economics, education, management, sociology, and psychology. It provides an important link in the application of theory and research to HRD practice. HRDQ publishes scholarly work that addresses the theoretical foundations of HRD, HRD research, and evaluation of HRD interventions and contexts." - Wiley Online Library

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1990 - current

Subject Keywords: Human Resource Development, Training & Development, Leadership & Management, Organizational Behaviour, Industrial Psychology

Human Resource Planning

"Original articles, literature reviews, reports of empirical research results, and case studies on the role of human resource professionals in strategy development, measuring effectiveness of HR practices, compensation systems and acquisitions." - Business Source Premier

Volume years available online via electronic access: 1983 - 2021

Subject Keywords: Personnel Management, Strategic Planning, Human Resource Planning & Strategy, Training & Development

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