MGT 535 - Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior is the study of human behavior in the workplace. It looks at the interaction between people and the organization, and the organization and itself. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology, psychology, communication and management.
TOPCAT
TOPCAT is the library's online catalog. An online catalog stores a record for each item a library owns. Search the online catalog to find out what a library has on a given topic, or to locate a work by title, by author, subject headings or keywords.
Subject Headings
Each item in TOPCAT is assigned one or more special terms, or subject headings that define what the item is about. When you search by subject all items sharing the same subject heading are retrieved. Using subject headings can be a very effective way of finding relevant items. Some useful subject headings are:
Main subject heading: Organizational behavior
Other subject headings/keywords:
Books
NetLibrary
NetLibrary is an Internet-based electronic library collection which provides access to the full text of scholarly, reference, and professional books in digital format. eBooks are digitally reproduced in their entirety, including photographs. From off-campus it is necessary to log-in to the NetLibrary using your user name and password. Once you are in NetLibrary, you may “browse” any title for fifteen minutes. To access e-books, go the library homepage and select Find e-books. Search using any of the subject headings that were used in TOPCAT. Below is a short list of some e-book titles on the topic organizational behavior.
E-Journals
E-journals are an electronic version of a journal that is found and read on the Web. Electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers provide access to current information on various subjects. Rather than browse individual e-journal titles, researchers can more quickly find information on a particular subject by searching a database. If the journal is an e-journal, there will be a link to the full text of the articles. Below is a select list of e-journals on the subject.
Databases
A database is an organized collection of records containing data for a specific purpose that can be searched and retrieved, e.g. TOPCAT is a database of the holdings of the SWITCH libraries, and Business Source Elite is a database of scholarly and popular articles published in the area of business and management. Article databases will help you identify journal, magazine and newspaper articles on the topic.
- Business and Company Resource Center Full Text Thomson Gale
- Company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. Includes company profiles, financials, investment reports, brand information, news, and articles.
- Business Source Elite Full Text EBSCO
- Provides full text for over 1,100 business publications, some back to 1985, and company profiles on over 10,000 companies.
- General Business File ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes publications on business trends, finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, investments, and banking.
- Conference Board Research Collection Full Text Conference Board
- Research reports on issues in business management and economics. Includes studies of F500 companies in addition to analyses and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
- Corporate ResourceNet Full Text EBSCO
- Full text for more than 1,300 magazines and journals of interest to today's company. Contains over 10,000 company profiles.
- Academic OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
- Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources covering physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.
- Academic Search Elite Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 3,400 journals including full text for over 2,000. Some publications back to 1985. Multi-disciplinary including the social sciences, humanities, sciences, education, and more.
- Infotrac Business Economics & Theory Collection Full Text Thomson Gale
- Collection of 150 full-text periodicals covering topics such as economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; country studies; and government regulations.
- JSTOR Full Text JSTOR
- For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.
- MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
- SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage
- Search full text journals in the fields of business, humanities, social science, science, and technology.
- Directory of Open Access Journals Full Text Lund University Libraries
- Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.
- Highwire Press Full Text Highwire Press
- Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.
- PsycARTICLES Full Text EBSCO
- Full text of 55 journals published by APA (American Psychological Association), the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Back as far as 1986.
- PsycINFO Index only EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,000 psychology journals, some as far back as 1887.
Web sites
- American Institute for Managing Diversity
- The mission of the organization – "Providing pioneering and creative thinking on the issues of diversity and diversity management and serving as the desired destination for individuals and organizations around the world seeking access to a comprehensive array of resources on cutting-edge perspectives and approaches to diversity."
- American Management Association
- "American Management Association is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals to drive business success."
- American Society for Training and Development
- "ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD’s members come from more than 100 countries and connect locally in almost 140 U.S. chapters and 25 Global Networks. Members work in thousands of organizations of all sizes, in government, as independent consultants, and suppliers."
- Baldrige National Quality Program
- "The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses—manufacturing and service, small and large—and to education, health care and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and results."
- Best Practices in Achieving Workforce Diversity
- Full-text of a study from the U.S. Department of Commerce and Vice President Al Gore’s National Partnership for Reinventing Government.
- Big Dog’s Leadership Page – Organizational Behavior
- This site defines and the elements of organization behavior, including models of organizational behavior; social systems, culture and individualization; and quality of work life.
- Business Mentoring
- Center for the Study of Work Teams
- "The Center for Collaborative Organizations, at the University of North Texas, was created for scientific and educational purposes. Through annual conferences, public workshops, on-site training, change projects, and publications, the Center provides knowledge, skills, design and development information, tools, and assistance to build collaborative work systems and enhance teaming."
- Conflict Resolution Information Source
- "CRInfo is a free, online clearinghouse, indexing more than 25,000 peace- and conflict resolution-related Web pages, books, articles, audiovisual materials, organizational profiles, events, and current news articles."
- Diversity Central – Resources for Cultural Diversity at Work
- This site provides a resource for cultural diversity in the workplace. Containing more than 1,200 articles, tools and other resources including news, research, quizzes, a tip of the month, and a leader’s toolkit on diversity.
- Employment Law Materials
- This site includes federal and some state statutes and regulations regarding collective bargaining, employment discrimination, pensions, and workplace safety.
- Mentoring: Expanding the World of Quality Mentoring
- Organizational Behavior Management Network
- This site exists to develop, enhance, and support the growth and vitality of organizational behavior management through research, education, practice, and collaboration.
- Society for Human Resources Management
- "The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Our mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most current and comprehensive resources, and to advance the profession by promoting HR’s essential, strategic role. Founded in 1948, SHRM represents more than 225,000 individual members in over 125 countries, and has a network of more than 575 affiliated chapters in the United States, as well as offices in China and India."
- Team Building
- From the Free Management Library.
- U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- EEOC also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies.
- U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Sexual Harassment
- Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government.
- U.S. National Labor Relations Board
- The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector. The statute guarantees the right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers, and to engage in other protected concerted activity with or without a union, or to refrain from all such activity.
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management
- This website offers a wealth of information, guidance and news about the agency, as well as human capital issues and policies in the Federal government.