ORG 6100/7100 Organizational Behavior

More resources are listed on the I/O Databases page.

I-O Top-tier Journals

• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Personnel Psychology
• Academy of Management (Journal, Review, Discoveries, Learning & Education, etc.)
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IOP) Journal

Search these journals in APA PsycInfo

Other Journals

Research/Practice

• Human Resource Review
• Organizational Dynamics
• Leadership Quarterly (and others)

Practitioner

• Harvard Business Review
• MIT Sloan Management Review
• T+D (and others)

Top-tier Psychology Journals

• Annual Review of Psychology
• Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
• Journal of Personality
• Psychological Bulletin (and others)

Search these journals in APA PsycInfo and Business Source Complete

Step 1:  Start your search for scholarly articles in an article database such as Business Source Complete or PsycINFO.  

Step 2:  Search for one or more of the terms from your topic such as layoffs.  Separate the terms using AND (to find articles with all terms) or OR (to find articles with either term). 

Step 3:  Check the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals on the left under Refine your results and click the Update button.

Step 4:  On the left under Subject, browse and check boxes for terms related to your topic and Update.  Some related terms here are personnel termination and downsizing.  

• Or browse the results looking for related subject term that can focus your search.  
• Using an asterisk (*) will truncate the ending of a word and search for all variations.  For example, a search for downsiz* will return articles for downsizing and downsized.
• You may need to combine a few subject or keyword terms to search for your topic, as seen below.

Step 5: Click the title of the article to skim the abstract and save/email/print articles you find helpful.

              Then search again using new subject terms or keywords you've found.

Set up your Ebsco account to save articles in folders across all Ebsco databases (e.g. Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete).

1. Open an Ebsco database, such as Academic Search Complete or APA PsycInfo (list of all SPU databases)
2. Choose Sign In at the top of the screen. 
3. Click on Create a new Account to set up your personalized Ebsco account (not your SPU username and password).
4. Fill out the short form to create a new account. 
5. Remember to always sign in when adding articles to folders or they will not be saved!