Topic 1: Emotional expression
Topic 2: Ostracism
Topic 3: Multicultural experience
Topic 4: Over-qualification
Why Read Research Literature & Do Research?
As a beginning scholar and aspiring professional,you know you are not the first to ask questions about topics like organizational behavior. Many people have studied it for many years.
So, you need to become familiar with the types of questions asked and answered, and the way in which they are asked and answered (theories, evidence, and the ways people (scholars, professionals, experts) share the theories and evidence. A short way to describe it is " research and professional literature".
What sorts of things are found in the research and professional literature?
One way to think about this is a giant "conversation". It helps to learn the discussion subjects, methods, tone, and language before you join in. This goes for most topics, whether you are discussing hobbies like gaming, anime, or different book or movie fandoms.
Watch this video or use the image below to learn about the structure of research articles. These are also called scholarly articles.
Thanks to NCSU Libraries for this excellent tutorial!
Reading a research article is different from reading a magazine article or a web posting for interest or pleasure. The steps below outline a method to do it. It is based on Earl R. Babbie's The Practice of Social Research. 15th ed. Mason, OH: Cengage, 2020, Chapter 17.
Remember, you want to do close (in-depth, careful, critical) reading for research.
1. Abstract first
2.Skim
3. Read
4.Re-skim
These are some important journals in Organizational Behavior: