- One search tool that has worked well for me is the Syracuse Library Database search tool. Through this I was able to search by category and look in a specific realm of research. I was able to look at a whole pool of articles about organizational culture and workplace diversity. One roadblock in using this search tool was finding a lot of articles about the exact same thing. To get past this I had to search for specific topics, not the broad “organizational culture.” Before learning how to utilize Syracuse Library’s search tools, I would use google search and have an even broader range of results, with many articles again, coming up with the exact same thing, just due to google’s search algorithm. Sometimes, with both methods, it takes searching some of the things I have questions about and not what I already know.
- Going forward into this research problem, my goal is dive more into the real-world applications of our findings from these articles. I want to find more cool and different ways some of these concepts apply. through this I hope to find primary sources that dive into the voices of minority members of corporations, institutions and societies. To find them I’ll continue using the SU library database search tools to find articles with new information. My goal is to find information completely different from what my classmates have found thus far, and really expand our canon when it comes to the topics we continue to discuss each week.
Writing and organizational cultures