MGMT 624: Introduction

This guide should help you:

Explore sources to increase familiarity with a subject and narrow down your research topic.

Use keywords or subject-specific vocabulary to search subject and discipline-specific tools.

Start to gather information for an assignment.

Evaluate potential sources for authority, reliability, credibility, purpose, viewpoint, and suitability.

Cite sources using an appropriate and consistent documentation style.

Use this guide as a resource and reference point when getting started on research assignments for your MGMT 624 class.

Check out the supplementary guide on Employee Ownership & Shared Entrepreneurship for resources on specific companies who exemplify implementations of high performance work systems.

For related topic and subject guides, see the list below:

ProQuest RefWorks - Source citation tool

Sign into your RefWorks account to export and manage citations while you research.

TIP: Keep RefWorks open in a tab at the top of your web browser when exporting citations from library databases.

For more information on using RefWorks and creating your account, go to the Cite Sources tab or view this page.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as "[t]he practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own" 

You're plagiarizing when you: 

• Copy, quote, paraphrase or summarize any source without citing the source 
• Purchase a research paper 
• Allow another person to write a research paper for you
• Submit another person's work in your name

​To avoid plagiarism, give credit whenever you use:

• another person’s idea, opinion, or theory
• any piece of information that is not common knowledge
• another person’s actual spoken or written words
• paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words

For more information on plagiarism and copyright, visit our Copyright guide.