Background and Overview

  • Oxford Handbooks Online Psychology
    • Offers introductions to topics and critical surveys of the current state of scholarship in psychology.
    • Browse by Subject (Top Left): Psychology
      • You can then try searching for a general topic idea in a couple of ways:
        • Narrow Your Choices (Left Column): Refine Terms
        • Narrow Your Choices (Left Column): Refine by Subject, Organizational Psychology 
          • Browse these results alphabetically if you don't have a topic
          • Or, try searching for a general topic idea within these Organizational Psychology results 
  • Cambridge Handbooks Psychology
    • Provides a complete state-of-the-field overview of psychological science research.
    • Try searching within the Psychology handbooks
      • These are not specific to industrial organizational psychology, so consider adding that as a search word
        • For example: organization AND motivation 
        • You may have to filter and limit your search results (left column, Refine Search) in a few ways:
          • Only show content I have access to 
          • Content type (consider limiting to Books and Chapters, to get a general overview)
          • Date (limit to the last few years if you want more current research)
      • Also, if you already have a more focused topic, you may not have to limit your search results