Management: MGMT 365 Presentation Topics and Strategies

Customizing Your Search: Advanced Overview

Get better results using Boolean searching (or, and, wildcard symbols)

Search example: 
brand* and (maintain or manage) and (online or internet)

• Parentheses keep similar concepts together
• Inside parentheses, OR gives the database flexibility between search terms.
• AND between concepts tells the database that Concept 1 MUST be linked with Concept 2.
• Most databases use the * for a wildcard search: brand* = brand, brands, branding, etc.
• In this example, brand must be linked to either maintain or manage, and must also be linked to either online or internet.  

Customizing Your Search: The Basics

Quick start: Click on any of the searches below to begin your research on that topic. 

Modify the quick start searches: After clicking on a linked search, use the search box at the top of the results list to add or change the search terms to better fit your own research. For example, if you are interested in business negotiations, what aspect of this topic is most interesting to you? Maybe it's job offers, or perhaps entrepreneurship? Click on the business negotiations link, then add words like success* or entrepreneur* - you will get results that better fit your research.

List of Topics

 

The Art of Negotiations

• negotiat* and skills - the * symbol is a wildcard and includes: negotiate, negotiation, negotiating, and other variants on the word "negotiation".
• business negotiations

 

Attitudes and Behaviors that Lead to Success

• attitude* success* - use of * brings up attitude, attitudes, success, successful, etc
• attitude* success* career - adding career helps to narrow the search focus
• employee* attitude* - use of * brings up employee, employees, attitude, attitudes
• attitude (psychology) - results about the psychology of attitudes (using advanced search box, scroll to see list)
• positive attitude* - brings up attitude, attitudes

 

Building and Maintaining a Professional Online Image

Strategies and Techniques for Building a Professional Brand

To consider: personal brand/image or corporate brand/image? How you approach this topic will affect how you do your search.

• professional identity and (manage or maintain) and (online or social media) - this is an example of Boolean searching

 

Dress and Grooming for Business 

• business dress
• business attire
• dress for success
• Content warning: searches for 'grooming' may return results on abusive or predatory behaviors.Use a business database or very specific search terms to reduce results of this nature.

 

Effective Interpersonal Communications

• interpersonal communication* - use of * brings up communication, communications

 

Ethical and Moral Communications

• ethical communication
• moral communication

 

The Impact of Culture in Shaping Business Communication

• business and cross cultural communication
• business and intercultural communication
• global business etiquette
• international business etiquette
• international business communication*
• organizational culture and business communication
• business communication and culture and effect - try a search where you replace effect with a different word. what words have a similar meaning?

 

Self-Awareness and Effective Communications

• self-awareness and effective communications

 

Social Media for Networking and Marketing for Employment

• social media and job search* - try this same search using the names of specific social media sites
• business and networking relationships - note: "networking" is also a computer and media  term - how might you modify the search to be more specific?
• business and networking strategy
• business networking and (jobs or careers or employ*)
• business relationship* and work
• business relationship* and work and social media
• social media and networking and success*

 

Strategies for Conducting Effective Business Meetings

• business meetings and effective
• successful business meetings

 

Strategies for Interviewing and Job Readiness 

• success* and job interview*
• employ* and interview* 
• job readiness
• job ready - what keywords could you use that are similar to the work job? 

 

Strategies for Using Social Media in a Business Setting 

Search tip:  List the areas of business you want to research. For example: marketing, branding, hiring, staff communication, customer engagement 

Search tip: Use a specific social media site instead of the broader social media term.

Create your search by combining social media terms with your business topic. For example:

• social media and marketing
• Slack and staff communication
• social media and branding
• LinkedIn and (hiring or recruiting)

 

Technology and Business Communications

Search tip: search using the term for a specific technology instead of a more general term

• technology AND (business communication*) - use of parentheses treats business communication as a phrase; use of * brings up communication / communications.
• business email - is there a specific context for this research? You can add that to get better results.
• business internet communicat* 
• business social media
• business mobile app*

 

Value Added Employees

• value added employees
• employee productivity
• employee performance - most search results are from a manager's perspective, but those offer helpful insights into what type of performance is valued in employees.
• employee self-management - more search results with valued traits in employees.

 

Workplace Etiquette or Netiquette

• netiquette and business communication
• online etiquette and business
• online behavior and (business or workplace)
• etiquette and (business or workplace)