Badm2220

BADM 2220 Organizational Behavior Presented by Dan Overfield 1/22/09 Prof. Walker

The Assignment Due 1/29/09
Find a company, using a scholarly article, that was able to somehow improve employee performance.
Write a short paper on the company including it’s mission, it’s purpose, and what it did to motivate the employees
Cite your work.

Scholarly? What?
Time Magazine
Journal of Management
Wall Street Journal
Which of the above is a scholarly publication and what does that even mean?

Journal of Management
Articles are based on a hypothesis (idea) that the author(s) will seek to prove or disprove through research.
Tests and research can be duplicated by others to prove its validity
Articles and their research are tested by other researchers before publication.
Not necessarily current events

Primary Source?
A scholarly article is NOT a primary source.
A primary source is usually something like a newspaper or a magazine. It is an article that is essentially a first hand account of “what happened”.

Good Primary Sources
New York Times - Newspaper
Wall Street Journal - Newspaper
Business Week - Magazine
The Economist – Magazine

Trade Publications?
Trade as in Industry, not trading spaces.
Current topics and news that impact specific industries. These are not scholarly articles, they are like newspapers that only a person involved in the industry would care to read.

You have to use a scholarly article for this assignment but…

Find a Company…
Pick a PUBLIC company – they have to provide information to the public.
Don’t have any names? Don’t know if it’s public or private?
Do you have an industry in mind?
Airlines? Coffee? Cars? Computers?

Census (NAICS codes)

316211 rubber and plastics footwear

Narrow Results by Academic

Use FIND IT to check for fulltext

Find a company with Mergent

Result List

Academic Search Complete

Sample Search ASC

Narrow by Academic

Open the Company Tab

Lincoln Electric (Be sure to limit new results to Academic)

Summary
As you will see, scholarly (academic) case studies of the organizational behavior of specific companies are sometimes difficult to find.
Use newspapers, trade publications, and magazines to find keywords, names, and dates to enter into your scholarly search.

Cite your work
Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete both will help you format your citations.
Citation Machine can help you make your own citations, and it is free.

Citation Machine ENTER YOUR OWN DETAILS ACCORDING TO THE BOXES BELOW

Citation Machine Results

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