BSCI Graziadio Organizational Behavior

Depending on your assignment, you may be asked to find articles about a variety of topics related to organizational behavior in order to support your ideas. Tip: If your topic relates to change management and leadership in organizations, please also refer to the  Leadership and Change Management in Organizations Guide.​ Below are some recommended strategies for finding articles on organizational behavior.

Here are examples of search terms you can use in Business Source Complete:

• Organizational
• Teams in the workplace
• Group decision making
• Leadership
• Corporate culture
• Personnel management

• Type organizational change into the first box and change the default field to SU Subject
• You can type additional terms such as employees into the second box
• Scroll down and click the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
• Click Search
• Click on the "All Filters" button on the left-hand corner (under the last search bar) of the search results page to open the limiters options on the right-hand side of the screen
• Scroll down to limit your results to current articles using the Publication Date filter

• Type "teams in the workplace" into the first box and change the default field to SU Subject
• You can type additional terms such as workplace OR "work environment" into the second box
• Scroll down and click the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
• Click Search

• Type Google into the first box
• Type organizational into the second box
• Click Search
• If you want to restrict your search results to academic journals, click the box for scholarly articles
• Use the slide bar on the left-hand side of the screen to limit your results to current articles
• You can try other search terms such as corporate culture, leadership, management or personnel
• It's also possible to search several search terms at once by using the OR command: type the name of the company into the first box and type organizational or "corporate culture" or leadership or management or personnel into the second box.

Tips for effective searching:

• Pick the essential keywords for your topic
• Words such as impact, effect, affected, etc. should NOT be used in your searches
• Using quotation marks around a specific search term or search terms with two or more words will held focus the results to that exact phrase
• Synonyms searches can be helpful in finding additional articles (ex. Workplace OR "Work Environment" OR "Place of Work")
• Select your keywords and phrases and type them into separate boxes
• Make sure to use the appropriate Boolean Operator (AND, OR or, NOT) to generate relevant results on your topic