About the NYSSHRM, Inc. White Papers

These research resources are gathered and reviewed by the White Papers Coordinator and/or Peer Reviews and State Council members of NYSSHRM, Inc. and provided via our website. In the future, we may restrict these papers to members only, but during the pilot period these papers are available to all website visitors. Many of the articles were written by members of NYSSHRM focus on specific areas of HR management and employment law specific to New York state.

These papers are made available to website visitors for information purposes only. They are not substitutes for advice from legal or other professionals.

Copyright
All white papers are copyrighted by the New York State Society for Human Resource Management, Inc. and may also be protected by their authors' copyright. As a visitor to our website, you have permission to save these white papers on your own computer or print out these documents. If you wish to distribute these materials to a wider audience, you must receive permission from NYSSHRM. Contact information for the White Paper initiative is available on the White Paper home page.

Printing White Papers
As indicated above, you have permission to print these documents. We have received inquiries from users who have difficulty printing out the white papers. There is nothing in the coding that should prevent these documents from printing. All White Papers are presented as Adobe Acrobat Reader portable document files. If you are having difficulty printing materials, you can:

- print the document from your word processor. Simply place your cursor inside the document, select all (control-A), then copy (control-C). Then, go to your word processor. Open a new document and paste (control-V). You can then print out the text from the word processor.

Citing White Papers
Researchers using the World Wide Web often are unsure how to cite articles they have found on the web. NYSSHRM does not endorse a particular method. However, advice appeared in the December 1996 edition of SHRM?s HR Magazine's HR Cyberspace column (http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/1296cybr.asp#1.5).

Janice Walker of the University of South Florida's English department has devised a style-sheet of "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources," endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing (http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html).

When citing a document found on the World Wide Web, Walker suggests the following: "Give the author's name (if known), the full title of the work in quotation marks, the title of the complete work if applicable in italics, the full http address, and the date of visit." For example, if you wanted to site a document from the HR Cyberspace home page:

Winter, Silver. "20 Legal Tips for NY HR Practioners." NYSSHRM Online. http://www.nysshrm.org/whitepapers/ top20.pdf (Dec. 1, 2006).

Updates
Please note the White Paper's date of creation or revision. The White Paper will reflect only information that was available at that time. If subsequent laws, studies, best practices, etc., have been created, theycted in the document. All efforts are made to ensure the white papers reflect up-to-date information.

Submitting White Papers
We encourage SHRM members and other qualified experts to submit original research to be included in this collection of documents.