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BADM 2220 Organizational Behavior
Presented by Dan Overfield
1/22/09
Prof. Walker
The AssignmentDue 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
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Find a company with Mergent
Result List
Nike
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.
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