For your Issues Management Plan assignment, you will need to research:
The issue(s)
The organization
The publics / stakeholders
Key Research Goals:
Find evidence to support your selection of an issue
Develop an awareness of the variety and nature of potentially useful information sources, and how to find them
Use a variety of tools to research the issue and find all the relevant voices and perspectives
Issues Research Tips
Things to remember:
Try to orient yourself around the information landscape -- who is creating and sharing information about the issue, in what format, and where are they sharing it? This will help you decide where to search.
Remember that a lot of relevant information is either not available or easily findable on the Web -- use library resources as well as websites.
When searching in the Library and on the Web, consider your search terms carefully -- good keywords make the difference in finding good results. Add keywords related to specific aspects of the issue, stakeholders, contexts, audiences or points of view.
News and Opinion
Use these tools to search for an issue and explore what makes it an issue.
You can examine traditional media and social media to gather both qualitative and quantitative data as evidence of your issue.
This custom Google search retrieves results from Calgary print, TV, radio and web-based news outlets. For best results include Calgary as a search term.
Full text journal articles, covering business management, economics, banking, finance, accounting.
Harvard Business Review restricts the use of their 500 most popular articles in EBSCOhost. The full-text of these articles is ‘read only’ and cannot be printed, downloaded or linked to. LibrarySearch links will not navigate to the full-text but these articles can be accessed for personal use by searching within Business Source Complete.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
An online business information system providing business intelligence on countries consumers and industries.
Please Note that additional access restrictions apply to this database:
It is open only to current MRU students, staff and faculty
It is not available for walk in-users
You must accept the "Terms and Conditions" before entering the site
Full text journal articles, covering business management, economics, banking, finance, accounting.
Harvard Business Review restricts the use of their 500 most popular articles in EBSCOhost. The full-text of these articles is ‘read only’ and cannot be printed, downloaded or linked to. LibrarySearch links will not navigate to the full-text but these articles can be accessed for personal use by searching within Business Source Complete.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.