LDSP 210 - Callahan: Catalog

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• Entered keyword "unfair business practice"
  • Discovered subjects:
    • Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
      • Catalog results for "business enterprises -- corrupt practices"
        • Found book: https://read.cnu.edu/record=b2577535
    • Corporations -- Corrupt practices
      • Catalog results for "corporations -- corrupt practices"
        • Sorted by Year, selected from last page of results (most recent publications):
          • Public relations and whistleblowing : golden handcuffs in corporate wrongdoing / Cary A. Greenwood
          • How to find fraud and corruption : recipes for the aspiring fraud detective / Nigel Iyer.
          • Corruption in a global context : restoring public trust, integrity, and accountability / edited by Melchior Powell, Dina Wafa, and Tim A. Mau.

• Tried keyword "business ethics"
  • Discovered the subject "business ethics" by clicking on one of the results
    • Sorted by year, selecting from the last page of results
      • Working as equals : relational egalitarianism and the workplace / edited by Julian David Jonker and Grant J. Rozeboom ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Anderson.
      • Proven tactics for improving teams' psychological safety : an experiment reveals interventions that managers can use to increase employees' comfort with speaking up and raising concerns / Chris Rider, Antoine Ferrère, Zsófia Belovai, Maria Gauadalupe, Florian Englmaier.
      • HBR's 10 must reads on trust / Harvard Business Review.
      • Fool me once : scams, stories, and secrets from the trillion-dollar fraud industry / Kelly Richmond Pope.
      • Why corporate success requires dealing with the past : customers, employees, and citizens expect companies to address historic transgressions and work toward a positive legacy / Sarah Federman, Judith Schrempf-Stirling.
  • Discovered another subject by clicking on one of the results:
    • Psychology, Industrial
      • Results for the subject "psychology, industrial"
        • Sorted by year, selecting from the last page of results:
          • A sense of belonging at work : a guide to improving wellbeing and performance / Lee Waller.
            • Discovered subjects:
              • "Work -- Psychological aspects"
              • "Employees -- Psychology"
              • "Belonging (Social psychology)"
              • "Organizational sociology"
          • Workplace intelligence : unconscious forces and how to manage them / Anton Obholzer.
            • Discovered subjects:
              • "Management -- Psychological aspects"
              • "Work -- Psychological aspects"
              • "Organizational behavior"
              • "Organizational sociology"

• Used keyword "groupthink"
  • At top of results page, the results can be sorted by "relevance, date, or title"
  • Some results stood out above the others; their subjects are listed:
    • "Science -- Psychological aspects"
    • "Science -- Decision making"
      • can be adapted to retrieve more results that focus on "Decision making"
    • "Presidents -- United States -- Decision making"
    • "International relations -- Decision making"
    • "Social groups"
    • "Policy sciences -- Case studies" (or just "Policy sciences")
    • "Creative ability" (a little vague, but still useful in an Advanced Search)
    • "Organizational effectiveness"
    • "Organizational behavior"
    • "Corporate culture"
    • "Thought and thinking"
    • "Decision making"
    • "Organizational learning"
    • "Knowledge management"
    • "Personnel management"
    • "Psychology, Industrial"
    • "Industrial relations"
    • "Industry 4.0"

• Entered "leadership coercion" as keyword:
  • Search results
    • One useful title stood out among the results; with relevant subjects:
      • "Dictatorship"
      • "Dictators"
      • very specific and limiting, but could be utilized in a larger conversation of leadership strategy
    • Another related result, with new subject term:
      • "Negotiation in business"

• Keyword search of "organization review"
  • Related result and its subject terms:
    • "Teams in the workplace"
    • "Organization behavior"

• Keyword search "organization audit"
  • One relevant title, and its subject terms:
    • "Directors of corporations -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States"
    • "Executives -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States"
    • "Audit committees -- Law and legislation -- United States"
    • "Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- United States"

• Other useful subject terms:
  • "Accounting -- Standards"
    • Search results
      • Subjects that appeared:
        • "Accounting -- Standards"
        • "Auditing -- Standards"
        • "Deregulation"
        • "Free enterprise"
        • "Industries -- Self-regulation"
        • "Employee rules"
        • "Labor"
        • "Bureaucracy"

WorldCat database - Book ideas, Catalogs, and relevant Subject terminology:

• searched WorldCat for "groupthink corporation"
  • A few useful results, titles searched in a catalog, and subject terminology discovered:
    • https://worldcat.org/title/875668782
      • "Crisis management"
      • Corporations -- Public relations"
      • "Corporate image"
    • https://worldcat.org/title/947743912
      • "Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration -- Decision making"
      • "Group decision making"
      • "Corporate culture"
    • https://worldcat.org/title/1290493360
      • this title is in our catalog
      • "Business logistics"
    • https://worldcat.org/title/1374851657
      • also in our catalog; do a title search
        • Subjects:
          • "Wages"
          • "Equal pay for equal work"
          • "Pay equity"

• Advanced Search:
  • "knowledge management" AND "decision making"
    • Results