Literature Review

Abstract

This editorial presents the key components to any literature review: focus, goal, perspective, coverage, organization, and audience. Each of these key components is discussed along with how each applies specifically to submissions to Performance Improvement Quarterly. The importance of synthesizing the literature is also provided, along with some recommendations on how to get started with this process. Recommendations for evaluating literature reviews are presented, as are references to evaluation tools to be used by students and researchers.

Human Needs, Organizational Performance, and Global Perspectives

“…As highlighted by John R. Turner (), all manuscripts should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Researchers may start with a literature review (), propose conceptual frameworks (), choose an appropriate methodology, and collect data to test hypotheses. The empirical results are then summarized in discussions and conclusions, which may either support or contradict research hypotheses.…”

Collaboration, Privacy, Organizational Citizenship, and Workplace Resilience

“…The journal needs continued support from existing reviewers and needs to grow the number of reviewers to achieve these goals. If you are interested, please create an account and sign up as a reviewer at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/piq Volume 33, Number 1 / 2020 DOI: 10.1002/piq 5 Th e journal is placing a general call for new submissions from the performance improvement communities that meet the minimum requirements as highlighted in the previous editorials in this journal (Turner, 2018a(Turner, , 2018b(Turner, , 2018cTurner, 2019aTurner, , 2019b. We have plans for expanding the number of articles per issue as well as beginning a series of special issues.…”

Managerial Coaching, Leadership‐Training Transfer, Mindfulness‐Meditation, and Mega‐Planning

“…The journal is placing a general call for new submissions from the performance improvement communities that meet the minimum requirements as highlighted in the previous editorials in this journal (Turner, ,,; Turner, ,). We have plans for expanding the number of articles per issue as well as beginning a series of special issues.…”