MSOD Master of Science in Organization Development

Scholarly journal articles are great for learning more about narrow and focused topics within a discipline, will present research findings and identify specific issues within the field of study. Professional trade publications are written for practitioners in a field and provide timely and practical articles for their audience. More general newspaper and magazines are an excellent source for general readers about current topics.

Both Business Source Complete & PsycINFO are accessible through EBSCOhost and it is simple to search them simultaneously. Use the instructions below to locate scholarly articles on your topic.

Step One:

• Login to either Business Source Complete or PsycINFO and click Choose Databases.

Step Two:

• Type leadership into the first box
• Type effectiveness or performance into the second box (the word "or" is a search command)
• Type another word or phrase into the third box that describes the your topic such as emotional intelligence

Step Three: 

• Click the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
• Limit articles by Date (optional)

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.