Organizational Behaviour Research

Searching Databases

The article databases listed are available through the library and allow you to search hundreds of academic journals, magazines and newspapers.

Some keywords you may want to try in your searching include:

organizational behaviour
organizational change
organizational development
organizational culture
corporate communication
organizational sociology
Industrial psychology

Don't forget to also search alternate spellings (e.g. organisation and behavior).

Learn the basics of searching for articles in our short video tutorial

Business News and Academic Article Databases

Business Source Complete
Provides full-text for scholarly business journals and other sources. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
ABI/INFORM Collection
The collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-, and industry-focused reports, and major news sources.
Nexis Uni
Access to full-text documents, including international and Canadian news, legislation, company profiles, industry reports, and more.
CPI.Q
Includes academic, magazine, and newspaper articles from Canadian publications. Includes some French publications.
CBCA Database
The Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database includes scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines covering business and economics, education, government and politics, social science, and more.
Factiva
Extensive access to news coverage from over 8000 sources, available from 118 countries in 22 languages.

Additional Academic Article Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Includes articles from journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, organizational communication and other related fields of study.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
ProQuest Sociology Collection
Includes a collection of several databases covering sociology and social services.
Web of Science
The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

Organizational Behaviour Journals

HR Practitioner Magazines

Magazines and journals targeted at participating HR professionals can be a great source of information on current events and issues in workplaces. These are not peer-reviewed sources, but can provide valuable 'real world' examples.