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Organizational Design, Diagnosis, and Development

Organizational Design, Diagnosis, and Development. Session 12 Organizational Diagnosis, II Techniques of Data Collection. Objectives. To review the general research process To describe research methods To examine techniques of data collection with a focus on interviews and surveys.

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Organizational Design, Diagnosis, and Development

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  1. Organizational Design, Diagnosis, and Development Session 12 Organizational Diagnosis, II Techniques of Data Collection

  2. Objectives • To review the general research process • To describe research methods • To examine techniques of data collection with a focus on interviews and surveys

  3. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF OD RESEARCH • Purpose and focus • Initial immersion • Choice of research method • observation • field study • field experiment

  4. PRINCIPLES CONT. • Entry into the organization • Development of data gathering techniques • Processing and interpreting data

  5. MODES OF DATA COLLECTION • Interviews • personal • telephone • Surveys and questionnaires • Observations • Archival records

  6. ASKING QUESTIONS EFFECTIVELY • Question content • Question wording • terminology • structure • express all alternative • avoid assumptions • response categories • filters

  7. ASKING QUESTIONS EFFECTIVELY CONT. • Question sequence • overall sequence • funnel techniques

  8. INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES • Type of interview • Sampling • Creating the atmosphere • Asking the question • Obtaining the response • Avoiding bias • Sensitive areas • Other interview formats

  9. An Example of the Funnel Technique • How frequently do you think others cheat on exams? • Do you approve or disapprove? • Do you personally know others who have cheated? • Have you cheated?

  10. Sources for Surveys • Cook, J., Hepworth, S. Wall, T. & Wair, P. (1981). Experience of work: A compendium and review of 249 measures and their use. New York: Academic Press. • Price,J. & Mueller, C. (1986). Handbook of organizational measurement. Marshfield, MA: Pitman • Rousseau, D. (1990). Assessing organizational culture: The case for multiple methods. In B. Schneider (Ed.). Climate and culture (pp. 153-192). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

  11. SURVEYS • Survey development • content area • question writing • expert analysis • pretest and revision • sampling • limitations

  12. OBSERVATIONS • Casual • Systematic • Participant observation • Limitations • onstage effects • reactive effects • investigator effects

  13. ARCHIVAL RECORDS • Where and what to get • Monitor policy changes • Environmental issues • Education and labor statistics • Sports salaries • limitations

  14. QUALITATIVE TOOLS • Content analysis • For analysis of media and open ended questions • Setting up the coding categories • Train coders • Analyze data • Limitations

  15. Backwards & Forwards • Summing up: Today’s session involved an examination of research methods and techniques of collecting data. Special emphasis was given to interviews and surveys, the two techniques used most frequently in organizational diagnosis. Other techniques were also considered • Looking ahead: Next time we turn to survey feedback and the design of interventions

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