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Organizational Behavior - MGMT 4242

Introductory Sources:

Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior
Ref HD 58.7 .B5 1995
500 essays address key concepts and issues related to organizational behavior. Each essay defines the term, assesses the current state of knowledge, the term's significance, and future trends & applications.

Encyclopedia of Business
Ref HF 1001 .E466 2000
More than 700 essays in this 2-volume set address topics such as employee motivation, employee rights, turnover, equal opportunity, family leave, glass ceiling, management techniques in various countries, management science, organizational behavior, sexual harassment, and workplace violence. Entries include a list of suggested readings.

Encyclopedia of Management
Ref HD30.15 .E49 2000
Essays cover terms, issues and concepts relevant to management topics. Functional areas covered include general management, management thought leaders, corporate planning and strategic management, quality issues, management science and operations research, human resources management, training and development, organization, and performance measures and assessment.

Handbook of Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Ref HF 5548.8 .H265 1990
Four-volume set is divided into 7 sections, each of which contains multiple chapters. Each chapter concludes with an extensive list of references. The 7 sections are: Theory in Individual and Organizational Psychology; Measurement and Method in Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Attributes of Individuals in Organizations, Individual Behavior and Organizational Practices; Work Roles, Work Functions, and Consumer Responses; Social Group Processes, Organizational Factors, and Other Facets of Organizational Functioning; and Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Cross-Cultural Context.

Journal and Magazine Article Databases (subscription databases; need Pirate ID and pwd to access from off campus):

ABI/Inform Global
Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics. ABI/INFORM Global provides indexing and abstracts to articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, as well as the full text or page image for more than 600 sources.

Business Source Premier
Provides full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals. This database contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer reviewed journals. Also included is Wall Street Words , a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text.

Emerald
This database contains the full text of over 130 full text journals published by MCB University Press. All of the database content can be searched at one time, or journals can be searched by title. Emerald's coverage is particularly strong in the areas of general management; human resources; information management; marketing; operations, production & economics; property; quality; and training & education.

PsycINFO
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including organizational behavior. Includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to dissertations, technical reports, book chapters and books in the English language. Produced by the American Psychological Association.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database contains nearly 470 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods.

Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index)
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading journals. Cited reference searching features allows users to identify articles that have been cited the most times.

For additional online databases, see Find Articles (subject databases) and Pirate Source Subject Guide.

Literature Reviews:

Annual Review of Psychology
Provides high-quality, in-depth overviews of developments in psychology, written by professionals in psychology.
1996-present available online
1950-present available in print: BF30 .A56

Annual Review of Sociology
Provides high-quality, in-depth overviews of developments in sociology.
1996-present available online
1975-1978 & 1984-2001 available in print: HM1 . A763

Research in Organizational Behavior
1979-present available in print: HM131 .R4x

Web Sites:

Academy of Management
http://www.aom.pace.edu/
The Academy of Management is a leading professional association of scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. Be sure to look at the "Divisions and Groups" link.

American Management International
http://www.amanet.org/index.htm
AMA, provides a full range of management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies throughout the world. Its website includes reports and survey results.

Society for Human Resource Management
http://www.shrm.org/
SHRM is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management and is committed to advancing the human resource profession to ensure that HR is an essential and effective partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. Although much information on the site is limited to members, there is some useful content available to everyone.

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
http://www.siop.org/
The Society’s mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial-organizational psychology. Website includes educational materials, suggested readings, and salary surveys.

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