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Objective of Assigned Reading & Lecture

Objective of Assigned Reading & Lecture. Learn one way of analyzing free-form responses to structured oral interviews (e.g., Rudermann et al) How to present an empirical study Notice structure, amt of detail, presentation style etc. Research Question.

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Objective of Assigned Reading & Lecture

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  1. Objective of Assigned Reading & Lecture • Learn one way of analyzing free-form responses to structured oral interviews (e.g., Rudermann et al) • How to present an empirical study • Notice structure, amt of detail, presentation style etc.

  2. Research Question • Effects of Commitment of multiple roles on psychological function and leadership skills • Multiple roles could be occupational, spousal, parental, citizenship roles

  3. Importance of topic • Presents a different perspective on the nature & effect of multiple roles • Change approach to coping with and interpreting involvement in multiple roles

  4. Theoretical BackgroundCompeting Effects of Multiple Roles • Negative • Depletion of resources for other roles (role scarcity) • Positive • Generation of resources for other roles (role accumulation) • Psychological • Social • Learning

  5. Rationale for negative effects • Each person has a fixed amount of resources • Multiple roles decrease the amount of resources available for any one role resulting in poorer psychological functioning

  6. Rationale for positive effects More roles More opportunities for positive self experiences More role partners Skills learned in role 1 More social support Skills used in role 2 Higher level of well being Learning Psychological Social

  7. Summary of contradictory Predictions for having multiple roles • Role scarcity => lower psychological functioning • Role accumulation => higher psychological functioning

  8. Response Rate of Participants • 74% of women participating in a women-only leadership development program

  9. Demographic Characteristics of Participants • Average Age=40 • Range=26-57 • 92% White • Avg. Salary =~78K (SD= ~32k)

  10. Participants’ Educational & Professional experience • 51% had post-graduate education • 84% in Fortune 500 corporations • Rank • Middle =49%, • Upper middle =34% • Exec=17%

  11. Family Status Characteristics of Participants • 50% had children under 18 yrs • 71% in committed relationships

  12. Procedure • Faxed questions to participants a few days before interview • Pilot tested interview qs on 28 women managers • Tape-recorded and transcribed each interview

  13. Types of Measures • Open-ended questions on • Different types of roles managers held • Challenges faced in roles • What are the shared resources? • e.g., Are there any dimensions/aspects of personal life that enhance your professional life?

  14. Data Analysis • Developed initial hypotheses about how personal roles contributed to professional roles while conducting pilot interviews and during the official interviews • grounded theory; Glaser & Strauss, 1967

  15. Coding of Interviews • 2 raters read 30 interviews ‘many’ times • Developed excerpts of each P’s answer • Summarized excerpts • Organized summaries & sample quotes • Compared & contrasted quotes and summaries for each case • Identified 13 patterns & themes • Examined remaining interviews for add’l themes Based on Boyatzis (1998)

  16. Reduction of Data • 13 themes reduced to 6 categories • Reviewed all excerpts to confirm categorization • Developed codebook explaining 6 themes • 66.7% to 90.9% inter-rater agreement on coding of themes • Not good according to Boyatzis, 1998 Based on Boyatzis (1998)

  17. Description of Results • Participants perceived that being in multiple roles improved their psychological functioning, gave them more social resources and contributed to their skill development

  18. Positive Effects of Personal Roles

  19. Conclusions • Six potential types of resources that people can gain from multiple roles • cannot infer how generalizable or how frequent this finding is • Conduct a survey type study with a larger sample

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