Guides: BSCI Graziadio Organizational Behavior: Locating Articles On Behavior in Organizations

Locating Articles on Behavior in Organizations

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.

Business Source Complete for Locating Articles

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Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.

Business Source Complete + PsycINFO
Use this link to search Business Source Complete and PsycINFO simultaneously. This is very helpful when topics are relevant to both the fields of business and psychology.

Search Terms

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

Example Searches in Business Source Complete

Example: I need scholarly articles about organizational change.

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
Use the slide bar on the left-hand side of the screen to limit your results to current articles

Example: I need scholarly articles about teamwork in the workplace.

Type teams in the workplace into the first box and change the default field to SU Subject
You can type additional terms such as ethics into the second box
Scroll down and click the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Click Search
Use the slide bar on the left-hand side of the screen to limit your results to current articles

Example: I need articles about organizational behavior at Google.

Type Google into the first box
Type organizational into the second box
Click Search
If you want to restrict your 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.

Search Tips

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
Word typed next to each other are searched as a phrase
Select your keywords and phrases and type them into separate boxes.