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Richter, Kenneth, Patricia Marie Anne Houde, and Krisztina Zimányi. "The Repertory Grid Interview: Exploring Qualitative and Quantitative Data on Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Beliefs." Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development 24, no. 2 (July 27, 2022): 215–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v24n2.95749.
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This article focuses on the use of the repertory grid technique as a research instrument for conducting and analyzing interviews in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. As a demonstration of the explanatory usefulness of this methodological framework, a pilot study was carried out to elicit second language teachers’ tacit beliefs concerning cultural perceptions of good language teaching. Repertory grid interviews were conducted with nine teachers at a public university in central Mexico. The data from each group were compared to uncover possible cultural influences on participants’ beliefs. It is hoped that this overview of the method encourages an interest in repertory grid interviews and their analytic techniques in the field of applied linguistics and in English as a foreign language teaching in particular.
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Steinberg, Falk, Philipp Tursch, and Ralf Woll. "The Improvement of Kansei Engineering by Using the Repertory Grid Technique." Management and Production Engineering Review 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mper-2015-0029.
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Abstract A customer-oriented approach to product development with particular consideration of emotions is represented by Kansei Engineering. Developed by Mitsuo Nagamachi, Kansei Engineering is characterized by the possibility to capture customer perceptions and to translate them into product features. In order to assess these perceptions, a semantic space is generated. For this purpose it is necessary to identify Kansei words that are gathered up through research in marketing concepts, scientific journals and service reports. This procedure though displays the disadvantage of not being able to identify all emotions referring to the investigated product. One way to improve the identification of Kansei words is Repertory Grid. The Repertory Grid technique makes it possible to gather unaltered perceptions through in-depth interviews from the direct interaction with customers. Thus, the interview phase of the Repertory Grid technique offers an improved approach to identify of Kansei words.
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Huber, Stefan, K. Helmut Reich, and Dominik Schenker. "Studying Empirically Religious Development: Interview, Repertory Grid, and Specific Questionnaire Techniques." Archive for the Psychology of Religion 24, no. 1 (January 2002): 180–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157361203x00318.
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Wang, Yi, Yang Chen, Tengteng Zhu, and Danming Lin. "Unpacking the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility using the repertory grid technique." Internet Research 28, no. 1 (February 6, 2018): 143–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-10-2016-0293.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility and the configurations of mobile information technology (IT) impacts in companies with various value creation logics. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory approach combining semi-structured interview and repertory grid method was used to evaluate managers’ perspectives on the effects of mobile technologies. Findings The qualitative findings unearth managers’ perspectives about the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility, which are categorized into six intermediary dimensions and two fundamental impacts. A further analysis of material collected from interviews also shows the differential context-related configurations of mobile IT impacts in companies. Research limitations/implications This study contributes to literature on the business value of IT in general and mobile IT in particular by examining managers’ cognitive constructions of the organizational impacts of enterprise mobility and highlighting the complexity and context-related variety of mobile IT impacts. Practical implications This study provides valuable insights for managers and decision makers that enterprise mobility shows promise in enhancing a firm’s operational and marketing performance. Originality/value Different from prior literature, this study is an exploratory attempt to investigate complex enterprise-mobility-performance relationship and preliminarily uncovers that the mechanisms with which mobile IT influences firm performance vary in different organizational contexts.
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Eimecke, Jörgen, Katrin Baumert, and Daniel Baier. "Applying the Repertory Grid Method for Technology Forecasting: Civil Unmanned Aviation Systems for Germany." Management and Production Engineering Review 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mper-2017-0025.
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Abstract Multistage expert surveys like the Delphi method are proven concepts for technology forecasting that enable the prediction of content-related and temporal development in fields of innovation (e.g., [1, 2]). Advantages of these qualitative multistage methods are a simple and easy to understand concept while still delivering valid results [3]. Nevertheless, the literature also points out certain disadvantages especially in large-scale technology forecasts in particularly abstract fields of innovation [4]. The proposed approach highlights the usefulness of the repertory grid method as an alternative for technology forecasting and as a first step for preference measurement. The basic approach from Baier and Kohler [5] is modified in-so-far that an online survey reduces the cognitive burden for the experts and simplifies the data collection process. Advantages over alternative approaches through its simple structure and through combining qualitative and quantitative methods are shown and an adaption on an actual field of innovation – civil drones in Germany – is done. The measurement of a common terminology for all experts minimizes misunderstandings during the interview and the achievement of an inter-individual comparable level of abstraction is forced by the laddering technique [6] during the interview.
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García-Mieres, Helena, Anna Villaplana, Raquel López-Carrilero, Eva Grasa, Ana Barajas, Esther Pousa, Guillem Feixas, and Susana Ochoa. "The Role of Personal Identity on Positive and Negative Symptoms in Psychosis: A Study Using the Repertory Grid Technique." Schizophrenia Bulletin 46, no. 3 (July 29, 2019): 572–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz082.
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Abstract Background People with psychosis experience disruptions in personal identity that affect positive and negative symptoms, but the complexity of these phenomena needs to be addressed in an in-depth manner. Using the Personal Construct Theory, we examined whether distinct dimensions of personal identity, as measured with the Repertory Grid Technique along with other cognitive factors, might influence psychotic symptomatology. Method Eighty-five outpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders completed a repertory grid, an observed-rated interview of psychotic symptoms, and measures of cognitive insight, depressive symptoms, neurocognition, and theory of mind. Results Structural equation models revealed that interpersonal dichotomous thinking directly affected positive symptoms. Self-discrepancies influenced positive symptoms by mediation of depressive symptoms. Interpersonal cognitive differentiation and interpersonal cognitive richness mediated the impact of self-reflectivity and neurocognitive deficits in negative symptomatology. Conclusions This study is the first of its kind to examine the structure of personal identity in relation to positive and negative symptoms of psychosis. Results suggest interventions targeted to improving interpersonal dichotomous thinking, self-discrepancies, interpersonal cognitive differentiation, and interpersonal cognitive richness may be useful in improving psychotic symptoms.
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ERGÜN, Asuman, and Sevgi KOÇ. "Classroom Teachers' Cognitive Fictions on the Concept of Value." Cukurova University Faculty of Education Journal 52, no. 3 (December 31, 2023): 953–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14812/cuefd.1301747.
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This study investigated classroom teachers’ cognitive fictions on the concept of value. The sample consisted of 40 primary school classroom teachers using purposive sampling. The study adopted a qualitative phenomenological research design. Data were collected using a Repertory Grid Interview Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using content analysis. Four hundred cognitive fictions were developed and categorized into ten fundamental values theorized by Schwartz. The cognitive fictions were addressed based on participants’ gender and training in values education. As a result classroom teachers considered the value groups ‘‘achievement’’, ‘‘conformity’’, ‘‘self-direction’’ the most important.
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Pattinson, Malcolm, Kathryn Parsons, Marcus Butavicius, Agata McCormac, and Dragana Calic. "Assessing information security attitudes: a comparison of two studies." Information & Computer Security 24, no. 2 (June 13, 2016): 228–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ics-01-2016-0009.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on the use of two studies that assessed the attitudes of typical computer users. The aim of the research was to compare a self-reporting online survey with a set of one-on-one repertory grid technique interviews. More specifically, this research focussed on participant attitudes toward naive and accidental information security behaviours. Design/methodology/approach In the first study, 23 university students responded to an online survey within a university laboratory setting that captured their attitudes toward behaviours in each of seven focus areas. In the second study, the same students participated in a one-on-one repertory grid technique interview that elicited their attitudes toward the same seven behaviours. Results were analysed using Spearman correlations. Findings There were significant correlations for three of the seven behaviours, although attitudes relating to password management, use of social networking sites, information handling and reporting of security incidents were not significantly correlated. Research limitations/implications The small sample size (n = 23) and the fact that participants were not necessarily representative of typical employees, may have impacted on the results. Practical implications This study contributes to the challenge of developing a reliable instrument that will assess individual InfoSec awareness. Senior management will be better placed to design intervention strategies, such as training and education of employees, if individual attitudes are known. This, in turn, will reduce risk-inclined behaviour and a more secure organisation. Originality/value The literature review indicates that this study addresses a genuine gap in the research.
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Kussin, Laura, and Henning Bundtzen. "How Error Prevention and Organizational Silence Influences Managers’ Self-Perception – A Repertory Grid Study." Business Ethics and Leadership 5, no. 1 (2021): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.5(1).31-44.2021.
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The topic of self-perception within management has become a subject catching more and more attention. The necessity for leaders’ self-awareness when aiming at high employee satisfaction and productivity still bears a lot of research potential. Developing self-awareness and efficacy are paths that do not have an end or a quota to reach. It is a rather mindset like a tank that can always be filled up more. Leaders’ self-awareness is crucial to improve their abilities and much more inaccurate self-perception can become harmful for an organisations’ performance. Surprisingly, the influence of managers’ self-perception on leadership behaviour and leadership effectiveness has only been studied little in contemporary literature. The main purpose of this article is to identify organizational factors that influence leader’s self-perception and how an organization can develop this characteristic of their managers. Therefore, this paper aims at identifying corporate cultural causes for managers’ distorted self-perception. This task leads evidently to the topic of organizational silence, which is understood as the absence of upward-directed feedback of employees’ input of ideas. Consequently, a corporate culture inherited by organizational silence impacts a manager’s self-perception. Additionally, the contextual literature research on self-perception guided to the subject of error management. It becomes evident that error management functions as a link between organizational silence and managers’ overestimation. Summarizing the article studies the interlinkages of these three research areas and combined them with a new research and hypothesis model tested on a repertory grid data set consisting of 782 personal constructs of a specific corporate culture. Individual construct psychology was chosen as an investigative methodology to ensure unbiased qualitative results. This psychologically grounded methodology is proven to make socially desirable results unlikely due to the intuitive interview structure. The results of this research give practitioners advice for developing corporate culture and self-perception and efficacy of people in leadership positions.
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Gore, Julie, and Michael Riley. "A Study of the Perceptions of the Labour Market by Human Resource Managers in the UK Hotel Industry: A Cognitive Approach." Tourism and Hospitality Research 2, no. 3 (October 2000): 232–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146735840000200304.
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It is reasonable to assume that if the labour market is the dominant force in labour management then the significance of the role of the human resource manager lies in the position it holds at the intersection between the external and the internal market, with recruitment as the joining process. This paper describes a qualitative investigation of hotel human resource managers' perceptions of their labour market environment using the process of recruitment as a vehicle to explore cognitive processes. A cognitive task analysis was completed which utilised four interview methods: task diagram; knowledge audit; simulation interview; and repertory grid. The findings show that the HR managers conform to the appellation of ‘expert’ in that they would use few and simple rules in making decisions. They also assume that the labour market will always provide and that perceptions of what goes on inside the organisation are quite separate. In other words there is both an industry and in organisational perspective at work.
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Kalkan, Fatma, and Emine Dağlı. "Views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications: A phenomenological analysis." International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v10i1.20565.
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This research aimed to reveal the views of secondary school students on ideal teacher qualifications. For this purpose, research was carried out in a phenomenological pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study was carried out with 76 students who were studying in a secondary school in the 2017-2018 academic year. The data were obtained with the repertory grid technique and interview technique. As a result of the analysis of the data, it was seen that the qualifications of the teachers considered ideal by the participants were among the general competencies of the teaching profession. According to the results of this research, ideally, teachers are expected to provide good and fun lessons, not discriminate among students, be friendly and calm in communications with students, and ensure discipline and democracy in the classroom environment.
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Sewell, Alexandra. "Utilising personal construct psychology and the repertory grid interview method to meaningfully represent the voice of the child in their social relationships." Pastoral Care in Education 38, no. 2 (January 12, 2020): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2020.1713869.
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C. Danoa, Julius. "TO LEAVE OR TO LIVE: UNDERSTANDING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF THE OUT OF SCHOOL YOUTHS VICTIMS OF THE TYPHOON HAIJAN IN CAPUTATAN NORTE, MEDELLIN, CEBU." Volume 2 Issue 3 2, no. 3 (July 15, 2018): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31674/mjmr.2018.v02i03.007.
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The purpose of this research was to explore the lived experiences of the out of school youths (OSY) victims of the Typhoon Haijan in Caputatan Norte, Medellin, Cebu. A qualitative methodology using a phenomenology framework was employed, with semi-structured interview to facilitate the respondents reveal their lived experience. A convenience sample of five OSY’s who have direct experience of typhoon Haijan was needed to reach saturation. Data analysis was based on Colaizzi’s methodology. The whole process was based on the data, transcribed interviews, sorting, categorizations (cool analysis), categories as thematized (warm analysis) in a repertory grid or a dendogram that paved the way to discovering the value of the lived experiences of the out-of-school-youths victims of typhoon Haijan. The description of the lived experience revealed is the terrifying experience that emanate from the OSY internal and external environment of retreating, revealing, and regressing experience, the destructive experience that derives from the OSY’s understanding of detrimental, desuetude, and destitute observations, and the surviving experience that stems from exodus, endure, and empower experience. The themes, which emerged, suggest that the lived experience reflected a normal adaptation response of human beings siege with disasters.
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Burdon, Wendy Mason, and Jackie Harvey. "A plea for adoption of ethical compliance." Journal of Financial Crime 23, no. 1 (December 31, 2015): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-11-2014-0049.
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Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the evolution of regulation and compliance in the past 20 years, to the current state of affairs. Despite earlier calls for ethical compliance within financial institutions, there remains scope for improvement within practice (as evidenced by on-going regulatory issues in the banking sector). Design/methodology/approach – Pre-crisis academic models of regulation and compliance are reviewed for evidence of use in practice. Some preliminary inductive research evidence is presented, following data collection via interviews with individuals impacted by compliance in financial service organisations. The interview data, facilitated by repertory grid, provide a post-crisis assessment of the issues faced by practitioners to comply with a new regulation. Findings – An over-reliance on group think and consulting services in compliance approach is potentially holding back progress in compliance service. Due to the limited recent empirical data offered in the literature, we believe further research into this area should be undertaken. Originality/value – This piece of research will provoke reflection on current practice vs existing academic theories, and seeks to identify whether alternative models are viable for the future of compliance approaches within practice.
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Pankratz, Oleg, and Dirk Basten. "Ladder to success – eliciting project managers’ perceptions of IS project success criteria." International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 2, no. 2 (February 18, 2022): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12821/ijispm020201.
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The traditional approach to assess information system (IS) project success is adherence to planning (ATP) – meeting budget, schedule, and requirements targets. Today, scholars agree that ATP is insufficient to adequately assess IS project success, but an agreed-on set of success criteria is still missing. Many works on this topic are based on theoretical considerations rather than empirical inquiries. We analyze practitioners’ subjective perspectives by investigating what criteria IS project managers consider relevant for IS project success assessment. We interview eleven experienced project managers in Germany, applying Repertory Grid and Laddering to minimize potential biases. Our results yield eight success criteria, indicating that criteria like process efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction must be considered in addition to ATP. Scholars can use our findings to apply the identified success criteria in future studies. Practitioners gain insights into the expert perspective on project success and might rethink the way of assessing success in their projects.
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Kearns, Kevin P., Jonathan Livingston, Shelley Scherer, and Lydia McShane. "Leadership skills as construed by nonprofit chief executives." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 36, no. 6 (August 3, 2015): 712–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-11-2013-0143.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how chief executives of 20 nonprofit organizations construe and prioritize the skills they use to perform typical leadership tasks. Design/methodology/approach – The in-depth interview protocol used in the study is based on the Repertory Grid Technique, which elicits assumptions, beliefs, and values of respondents without imposing the researchers’ implicit frame of reference. Findings – The interviews generated 285 skill constructs. Respondents in this study report that they utilize a mix of technical, interpersonal, and conceptual skills. Interpersonal skills, especially communication and trust building, appear to be particularly prevalent among the many skills used by executives to perform their leadership tasks. Research limitations/implications – Because this is an exploratory study, its findings cannot yet be generalized to other contexts. Therefore, the paper concludes with some propositions for further research. Practical implications – The study may have implications for the design of curricula to prepare people to assume leadership positions in nonprofit organizations. Originality/value – This study uses a distinctive methodology to elicit from nonprofit leaders their assumptions and beliefs about the skills they use to perform leadership tasks. In this respect, the findings are grounded in the frames of reference of the subjects, not those of the researchers.
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Pačešiūnaitė, A., and D. Čekuolienė. "SERGANČIŲJŲ VALGYMO SUTRIKIMAIS ASMENYBĖS KONSTRUKTAI." Psichologija 42 (January 1, 2010): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2010.0.2570.
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Siekiant išsiaiškinti sergančiųjų valgymo sutrikimais asmenybės konstruktų sistemos ypatumus, naudojant SELF-GRID repertuarinę gardelę buvo ištirta dešimt merginų, sergančių nervine anoreksija, dešimt nervine bulimija ir dvidešimt sveikų merginų (kontrolinė grupė). Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad sergančių valgymo sutrikimais merginų asmenybės konstruktų sistemos yra mažiau kognityviškai sudėtingos, naudojama mažiau skirtingų vertinimo parametrų įvairiems įvykiams aplinkoje paaiškinti, palyginti su kontrolinės grupės tiriamosiomis. Reikšmingiausių konstruktų analizė atskleidė, kad vienas svarbiausių valgymo sutrikimų grupės konstruktų yra „siekiantis tikslo“. Priešingai ankstesnių tyrimų rezultatams, tarp sergančiųjų valgymo sutrikimais pagrindinių asmenybės konstruktų nė karto nebuvo paminėti konstruktai, susiję su svoriu, kūno išvaizda ar maistu. Valgymo sutrikimais sergančiųjų asmenybės konstruktai, pasitelkus repertuarinę gardelę, Lietuvoje buvo analizuojami pirmą kartą.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: asmenybės konstruktai, valgymo sutrikimai.Personal constructs of patients with eatingdisordersPačešiūnaitė A., Čekuolienė D. SummaryObjective. To examine the personal constructs system in female patients with eating disorders.Method. All subjects were invited to take part in a semi-structured interview which included completion of a type of repertory grid known as SELF-GRID. The SELF-GRID was chosen as specifically suited to this study having been devised by E. Button (1993) with the aim of exploring personal constructs of patients with eating disorders. In this study, a repertory grid of 11 elements (five versions of oneself and six elements of other people) was presented to 20 female subjects suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and 20 matched control subjects.Results. The main difference between the two groups was found to be the greater tendency of patients with eating disorders to construe in a narrow “tight construing” manner utilising less multidimensional personal constructs than the control group. This means that these patients with eating disorders were less cognitively complex than the control subjects. On the total percentage of variance contributed by the first three principal components, there was a significant difference (eating disorder group 83.12 %; control group 78.24 %; t = 2.465; p < 0. 05). The use of narrower systems of personal constructs provides fewer alternatives for construing oneself and other people. Such a constriction of alternatives might arise from a desire for greater predictability and control. In this situation, people with more multidimensional constructs can be a source of danger to the narrower system of personal constructs, as they might challenge and invalidate these constructs. This may explain why patients with eating disorders can gradually withdraw from socialising. The content of constructs was also analysed. Surprisingly, no central constructs related to weight, eating or appearance were found. The further detailed work is needed to understand this finding, as this might reflect the denial of the problem or, on the contrary, indicate that disturbed eating is just a manifestation of other underlying problems such as restricted negative emotionality, perfectionism, and high levels of achievement. Results of this study provide some evidence of a shared underlying problem, “goal orientation” being the consistent strong main theme of the personal constructs of patients with eating disorders. Patients with eating disorders usually focus narrowly on getting thinner, perhaps in the naïve hope that this will solve their underlying problems.The number of constructs elicited by the SELF-GRID was compared between the groups, and there was no significant difference. Neither was there a significant difference between eating disorder and control groups in the measures of positivity / negativity of construing.Conclusions. The personal construct systems of patients with eating disorders were less cognitively complex as compared with control subjects, although there was no difference in the number of elicited constructs. The main topic of the personal constructs of patients with eating disorders was “goal orientation”.Keywords: personal constructs, eating disorders.
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Villamor, Neil Jupiter E., Allan B. de Guzman, and Evangeline T. Matienzo. "The Ebb and Flow of Filipino First-Time Fatherhood Transition Space." American Journal of Men's Health 10, no. 6 (July 8, 2016): NP51—NP62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988315604019.
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Fatherhood, as a developmental process, is both a human experience and a text that needs to be read. For developing nations like the Philippines, little is known about the process undergone by first-time fathers on their transition to fatherhood, and how nurses can play a significant role in assisting them. This grounded theory study purported to conceptualize the multifaceted process of transition from the lens of Filipino first-time fathers’ lived experiences. A total of 20 first-time fathers from Metro Manila, Philippines, were purposively selected to take part in an individual, semistructured, and in-depth interview. The Glaserian (classical) method of analysis was specifically used, and field texts were inductively analyzed using a repertory grid. Member checking and correspondence were done to validate the findings of the study. Six surfacing stages emerged relative to the process of transition. Interestingly, The B.R.I.D.G.E. Theory of First-Time Fatherhood Transition Space describes how these fathers progress from the beholding, reorganizing, inhibiting, delivering, grasping, and embracing phases toward successful transition. This emerged theoretical model can be used in framing health care programs where the needs of fathers during this period are met and addressed. Finally, it can also be used in guiding nurses in their provision of a more empathetic care for first-time fathers.
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Vranjesevic, Jelena. "Self constructing in adolescence." Psihologija 36, no. 4 (2003): 487–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi0304487v.
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The aim of this study was to explore ?theories? adolescents have about themselves, i.e. about the changes in the ways they construe themselves in the period of middle adolescence: how they construe changes and estimate them according to some dimensions relevant for change (appreciation of change, its importance, expectancy, timing, comprehensiveness, intensity and visibility in social surroundings). The study was explorative and it was performed on the sample of 96 adolescents aged 15-17 (middle adolescence). Instruments used for the study were: interview and Role Construct Repertory Grid, adjusted to the need of study. The results show that the adolescents? construct system is highly monolithic and tight in regard to constructs (black and white construing), but at the same time vague and predictively unclear in regard to elements, i. e. the stated changes, meaning that adolescents are not able to construe those changes according to certain constructs. It seems that this study included the beginning of the loosening phase (creativity cycle) in which the system is still tight and, therefore, protects from threat and anxiety, while the elements are not predictively (this is what Erikson calls moratorium, i.e. the process of active experimenting). Changes which are fully predictively are those which refer to adults' roles, such as: self confident, experienced, independent and has responsibilities, worries. On the hand, changes which are predictably the most clear to adolescents (and not appreciated) are depression and nervousness. Adolescents face an implicative dilemma: positive implications of maturity are not enough, while negative implications, such as nervousness, depression and not trusting people are clear, predictable and negative. This dilemma can be the cause of their ambivalence towards growing-up and accepting the roles of adults.
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Dunn, Michael. "All at sea – gender and leadership in Britain’s Royal Navy (RN)." Gender in Management: An International Journal 30, no. 6 (August 3, 2015): 434–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-11-2013-0133.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between leadership and gender in the UK’s Royal Navy (RN) to answer the research question “Do men and women lead in different ways?”. Design/methodology/approach – The research collected factual data on personnel statistics and organisational structure in the RN. The primary research adopted a grounded theory approach using repertory grid and critical incident technique. The research design was to interview a snowball sample of 27 mid-ranking officers, equally split between men and women and drawn from the main branches in the RN. Findings – There is a significant gender deficit in the RN officer cadre with no women senior-ranking RN officers currently in post. A model of RN leadership was developed from a content and statistical analysis of the primary data. This was broadly equivalent for both men and women, except in one regard: women are expected to manage the impact of their gender so that their self-presentation conforms to the prevailing androcentric norms. The analysis also identified the consequences of unreflective leadership for followers and developed the term “damagement” to conceptualise this. Research limitations/implications – The small-scale research design precluded any generalisable findings, but further research, if confirmatory, should make a substantive contribution to both the theoretical field of gender and leadership, and the practice of leadership in the RN. Practical implications – These would relate the practice of leadership in the RN. Given further confirmatory research, the findings should inform the leadership selection, training and evaluation processes operated by the RN. It should also influence the Ministry of Defence’s policy on the wider deployment of women in the armed services, when the issue is next reviewed. Social implications – The research may have social implications for the wider acceptance of the valuable contribution that women can and should be making in the national armed services of the UK and beyond. Originality/value – The research was primary. It has added value though both its contribution to the leadership and gender debate and also the conceptualisation of leadership in the armed services, particularly the RN. In addition, it developed a new concept, that of “damagement” that could be critical in the development of more effective leadership styles.
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Song, Shi‐Rui, and Andrew Gale. "Investigating project managers' work values by repertory grids interviews." Journal of Management Development 27, no. 6 (June 13, 2008): 541–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02621710810877811.
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Osterberg-Kaufmann, Norma, and Ulrich Stadelmaier. "Measuring meanings of democracy—methods of differentiation." Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 14, no. 4 (November 19, 2020): 401–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12286-020-00461-6.
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AbstractThe question of the contested nature of the concept of democracy is neither in doubt within the political science debate, nor new. What is new, however, is the attention paid to the knowledge of competing ideas of democracy in literature. The development of concepts of the “D-word” beyond Eurocentric hegemony was accompanied by a critical review of methodological approaches. Against the background of these methodological challenges, the requirements for more differentiated or mixed methodological approaches are discussed in the literature. In this article, a combined approach of the repertory grid and the semantic differential methods is proposed to enrich the innovative methodological dynamics of investigating the meaning of democracy. The article gives an introduction to the repertory grid method and illustrates, with a case study, how the Singaporean middle-class views democracy. These repertory grid face-to-face interviews serve as a starting point for the creation of valid polarity profiles for the semantic differential method—a method which, like the repertory grid, is used to measure the connotative or affective meaning of objects, but in a quantitative design so that representativeness can be achieved. Through this approach, the constructivist approach of repertory grid is partly combined with positivistic survey research, and thus the approach is inductive with deductive research.
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Hedman, Jonas, Felix B. Tan, Jacques Holst, and Martin Kjeldsen. "Taxonomy of payments: a repertory grid analysis." International Journal of Bank Marketing 35, no. 1 (February 6, 2017): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijbm-12-2015-0187.
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Purpose Recent innovations in payment instruments have fundamentally changed the ways we pay. These innovations, such as mobile/SMS payments and online banking, contain features that are likely to influence how people choose to pay. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that impact payers’ choice of payment instruments. Design/methodology/approach Through in-depth interviews using the repertory grid technique, the authors explored 15 payers’ perceptions of six payment instruments, including coins, banknotes, debit cards, credit cards, mobile payments, and online banking. The approach draws heavily on organizational systematics to better understand payers’ choice of payment instruments. Findings A four-category taxonomy of payments was developed. The authors refer to the taxonomy as the 4Ps: the purchase, the payer, the payment instrument, and the physical technology. The taxonomy comprises 16 payment characteristics consisting 76 payment features that influence payers’ instrument choice. One characteristic not known in prior research was identified – that is, “cancellation” – a characteristic more frequently associated with digital payment instruments than with cash or checks. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that payers view payment instruments in a much broader sense, including context, control, or cultural beliefs. Consequently, the authors suggest that researchers try to understand the essence of an innovation before assuming any economic rationalism in human or organizational behavior. The authors also urge researchers to understand the underlying meaning behind constructs of interest; as this study has shown that concepts like context and convenience have many different interpretations. Practical implications According to McKinsey (2014) there are over 12,000 startups in the payment arena. For them, the taxonomy can function as a template for the design of payment instruments, as well as understanding the various factors that influence payer choice of payment instruments. Originality/value The main contribution of this paper is the 4Ps taxonomy of payments. The taxonomy builds on and extends the work by Hirschman (1982). Since this work, and despite recent trends in payments, there has not been a comprehensive investigation that takes into account more recent innovations in payment instruments.
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Bundtzen, Henning, Mark Heckmann, and Gerriet Hinrichs. "A Constructivist Approach to Visualise Organisational Agility." Business Ethics and Leadership 5, no. 2 (2021): 96–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.5(2).96-106.2021.
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The research question we would like to answer with this article is if agile related constructs or personal assessment criteria can be elicited from a personal construct system of employees and leaders by carrying out a repertory grid study in an organisation. The methodology of personal construct psychology was chosen to get an unbiased view of the corporate culture. In a plannable world an organisational structure with a hierarchy of executives and managers following a vertical top-down approach makes sense. A world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) requires a different model to organisational design. Horizontal integration that fosters involvement and empowerment has proven to be an agile response to this new environment. Consequently, agile management methods are a key instrument for an organisation to prepare for future challenges in a competitive industry. But how can an organisation assess its own agile status quo? This research uses personal construct psychology (PCP) to visualize the agility status of an organisation. A range of recent empirical and practical research articles were studied to filter the most relevant practices and critical factors of organisational agility. The findings are compared to a data basis generated by 61 repertory grid interviews carried out in a SME to evaluate whether personal construct theory is a suitable approach to assess the agility status of an organisation. The findings are visualised with a repertory grid software using Generalised Procrustes Analysis (GPA). This methodology creates a 3D visualisation of the agile assessment criteria derived from the interviews. By comparing the spatial distances between construct clusters and elements the researcher and reader able to assess whether an organisation has incorporated agile practices and traits or can further advance to react more agile and flexible to external forces. Repertory grid structured interviews based on PCP generate simultaneously quantitative and qualitative results. As these are compared to the literature-based findings, it reflects a triangulation research approach.
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Jokuschies, Nina, and Achim Conzelmann. "„Das sieht man doch, dass das ein Talent ist!“." Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie 23, no. 2 (April 2016): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010/a000161.
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Zusammenfassung. Obwohl die Talentselektion im Profifußball auf dem subjektiven Urteil von Trainern und Trainerinnen basiert, liegen bislang nur wenige Untersuchungen zu deren subjektiven Talentkriterien vor. Einem konstruktivistischen Ansatz folgend ( Kelly, 1991 ), werden in der vorliegenden Studie sechs hauptberufliche Junioren-Trainer des Schweizer Spitzenfußballs mittels halb-strukturierten Interviews und Repertory Grid Technik ( Fromm, 2004 ) befragt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die subjektiven Talentkriterien der Trainer mithilfe der verwendeten Methodik erfassen lassen. Die Multidimensionalität und Differenziertheit der von den Trainern verwendeten Talentmodelle zeigt sich durch die Nennung verschiedener Aspekte aus den Bereichen Persönlichkeit, kognitiv-perzeptuelle Fertigkeiten, konditionelle Fähigkeiten, physische Konstitution und soziales Umfeld. Die Befunde deuten darauf hin, dass sich die Repertory Grid Technik für systematische Beurteilungen anhand der von Trainern verbalisierten subjektiven Talentkriterien nutzen lässt.
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Fonseca, Guilherme, Ezequiel M. Duque, Rômulo B. Silva, and Lucila Ishitani. "Repertory Grid Technique in a participatory design of games for older people." Journal on Interactive Systems 13, no. 1 (January 7, 2022): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/jis.2022.2114.
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With the aging society, there is an increasing need for services and software focused on older people. Digital games are one option of software to be provided as tools for entertainment, education, and well-being. However, to deliver these benefits, games must be developed according to the needs and preferences of older people. Seeking to improve the process of eliciting preferences from the target public, we applied Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) during the participatory design of a game. RGT is a cognitive interviewing technique based on Personal Construct Psychology, which has applications in different areas, including computer science. Although many articles discuss the application of RGT in the development of systems, we did not find, in the literature, any application of the technique with older people. We developed a game focusing on older people to understand better how such technique could contribute to game development, following action research methodology. We carried out three cycles of action research, all of which involved the use of RGT. The results indicate some benefits of using RGT instead of traditional semi-structured interviews. The main contribution of this work is to provide researchers with an initial understanding of the benefits of the application of the Repertory Grid Technique for the interviews with older people and how to use it during a participatory design.
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Blagden, Nicholas James, Ruth Mann, Stephen Webster, Rachael Lee, and Fiona Williams. "“It’s Not Something I Chose You Know”: Making Sense of Pedophiles’ Sexual Interest in Children and the Impact on Their Psychosexual Identity." Sexual Abuse 30, no. 6 (April 3, 2017): 728–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1079063217697132.
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Sexual interest in children is one of the most strongly predictive of the known risk factors for sexual reconviction. It is an important aspect of risk assessment to identify the presence of such interest, and an important task for treatment providers to address such a sexual interest where it is present. It has been argued that understanding pedophiles’ deviant sexual interest in children can enhance risk assessment, management, and treatment planning. This research study aims to explore the phenomenology of deviant sexual interest in children, the impact it has on pedophilic offenders’ identities, and their views on the treatability of that interest. The study used semistructured interviews and repertory grids to make sense of participants’ experiences. The results revealed three superordinate themes: “‘living’ with a deviant sexual interest,” “relational sexual self,” and “possible and feared sexual self.” The analysis unpacks these themes and repertory grid analysis is used to explore a subset of participants’ identities in more detail. The results reveal that there needs to be an acceptance from both client and therapist that their sexual interest in children may never go away. Through this acceptance, clients could work on enhancing sexual self-regulation, recognizing their triggers, and so managing their sexual thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Implications for treatment are also discussed.
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Burke, Elaine, Karen Misstear, and Martina Hennessy. "An exploration of the professional identity of clinical academics using repertory grid technique." PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (November 17, 2022): e0277361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277361.
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Background Clinicians who divide their time between clinical work and research have contributed to some of the most fundamental breakthroughs in medicine in recent history, yet their role is not always well-understood or valued. Understanding the factors which contribute to career success for clinical academics is critical for supporting this workforce. Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) provides a conceptual framework for career success, incorporating personal and environmental factors. Purpose The aim of this study is to explore clinical academics’ construal of successful clinical academic practice and to contribute to a holistic view of the professional identity of the clinical academic. Methodology Using a constructivist technique, repertory grid, the authors interviewed ten clinical academics at different career stages in one-to-one structured interviews conducted virtually between November 2020 and April 2021. Data from the interviews were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. Common themes were identified, analysed, and ranked according to importance with respect to successful clinical academic practice. Using SCCT as a framework, constructs were categorised as personal factors, organisational factors, competencies and person-environment fit. A differential analysis between established/trainee and female/male participants was carried out. Summary of results One hundred and thirty-three constructs were elicited and categorised into 20 themes (constructs). There was consensus among participants that 6 were of high importance with respect to successful clinical academic practice, 8 of intermediate and 4 of low importance, with no consensus on 2 constructs. Personal factors of high importance include innovation and integrity. Competencies including research and teaching skills are highly important, and ability to collaborate is also considered central to successful clinical academic practice. Female participants expressed greater concerns about the impact of familial responsibilities on career progression. Discussion and conclusions This study highlights the importance of interactions between the person and environment, and characterises the important attributes of successful clinical academics including personal factors such as integrity and innovation.
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Bundtzen, Henning. "Adapting Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory to a VUCA World – A Repertory Grid Study." European Journal of Economics and Business Studies 6, no. 3 (December 12, 2020): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/914kzv77e.
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Employee motivation is a key driver of organizational performance and employee retention. An increasing shortage of skilled workers forces companies to think of ways to motivate and retain their employees. Herzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation provides an insight which factors are relevant for motivating employees. The theory founded on research carried out in the 1960’s. Since then, the practical and theoretical tenet of supervision and management has shifted to a different leadership approach. Additive the economic environment is found to be more volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguity. VUCA has made its way into organizational science resulting in a focus on agile working methodologies. To add up a generation of millennials demanding for feedback, open communication and team-based workplaces starts to integrate into labour market. Does Herzberg’s theory persist in this new economic environment? Can it be adapted or is a completely new approach inevitable? This organizational psychology related study is aimed to test Herzberg’s theory in a contemporary environment by applying the theory of personal constructs as an investigative method. 61 qualitative repertory grid structured interviews elicited n = 782 personal constructs to investigate the theory. The personal constructs are clustered and compared to the theory of Herzberg.
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Robin, A. A., J. B. Copas, A. B. Jack, A. C. Kaeser, and P. J. Thomas. "Reshaping the Psyche the Concurrent Improvement in Appearance and Mental State after Rhinoplasty." British Journal of Psychiatry 152, no. 4 (April 1988): 539–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.152.4.539.
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Rhinoplasty patients and matched elective-surgery controls completed the Facial Appearance Sorting Test, the General Health Questionnaire, a Repertory Grid and the Masculinity/Femininity Scale. Rhinoplasty applicants perceived appearance similarly to, and downrated their own appearance to the same extent as, controls. Impaired appearance and psychiatric symptoms are integral parts of the ‘rhinoplasty applicant syndrome’, but the degree to which they occur is not positively correlated. Interviews and tests were repeated 6 months after operation, when marked improvement in appearance was reported by the rhinoplasty patients, associated with the reduction of psychiatric-symptom scores. Control subjects showed no change.
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Jantori, Parinda, Saowaluck Tepsuriwong, and Pornapit Darasawang. "Is Scoring Helpful Feedback for Writing Tasks? An Examination of Teachers’ Beliefs." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 6 (November 1, 2018): 1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0906.14.
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Understanding teachers’ beliefs about scoring procedures can be beneficial for educators in order to understand factors including challenges the teachers face when dealing with writing evaluation. This study investigated teachers’ beliefs about scoring procedures through the narrative approach. Their stories were revealed through repertory grid interviews based on the Personal Construct Theory. The method encouraged teachers to think more critically when expressing their beliefs, so their genuine voices and experiences could be revealed. Two native and two non-native English-speaking teachers at the university level were interviewed about their methods of assigning scores when evaluating an essay. The interviews revealed that several factors, such as learning, practicality, experience, objectivity, and confidence could influence teachers’ beliefs when deciding which scoring procedures to use. The challenges that educators might face when giving feedback were also discussed.
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Ashenden, Debi. "In their own words: employee attitudes towards information security." Information & Computer Security 26, no. 3 (July 9, 2018): 327–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ics-04-2018-0042.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to uncover employee attitudes towards information security and to address the issue of social acceptability bias in information security research. Design/methodology/approach The study used personal construct psychology and repertory grids as the foundation for the study in a mixed-methods design. Data collection consisted of 11 in-depth interviews followed by a survey with 115 employee responses. The data from the interviews informed the design of the survey. Findings The results of the interviews identified a number of themes around individual responsibility for information security and the ability of individuals to contribute to information security. The survey demonstrated that those employees who thought the that organisation was driven by the need to protect information also thought that the risks were overstated and that their colleagues were overly cautious. Conversely, employees who thought that the organisation was driven by the need to optimise its use of information felt that the security risks were justified and that colleagues took too many risks. Research limitations/implications The survey findings were not statistically significant, but by breaking the survey results down further across business areas, it was possible to see differences within groups of individuals within the organisation. Originality/value The literature review highlights the issue of social acceptability bias and the problem of uncovering weakly held attitudes. In this study, the use of repertory grids offers a way of addressing these issues.
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Marozau, R. I., and E. L. Kosyak. "Use of the Analytical Tool Rep:grid for the Analysis of Belarusian Companies’ Values." Digital Transformation 28, no. 2 (September 2, 2022): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35596/2522-9613-2022-28-2-23-32.
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The paper discusses the significance of a company's values, factors of their formation in the Belarusian context as well as the use of the analytical tool Rep:grid for their analysis. The purpose of the study is to identify, what companies’ values pre-condition the success of Belarusian export-oriented manufacturing companies by applying the repertoire grid technique. The paper presents the analysis of 20 structured interviews with company owners. The obtained results demonstrate that their success is based on such organizational values as efficiency, orientation to the global market, and engagement with customers.
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Basten, Dirk, Linda Schneider, and Oleg Pankratz. "Codification, Personalisation, or in Between? Exploring Knowledge Characteristics to Guide Knowledge Management System Design." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 16, no. 04 (November 23, 2017): 1750037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021964921750037x.
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The effectiveness of information technology (IT) depends on its embeddedness into its contingent context. Thus, enabling adequate knowledge management (KM) system design requires awareness of the characteristics of the knowledge that is created. Since related insights are missing, we explore what software developers learn on their projects by conducting interviews based on the Repertory Grid Technique. We assess the characteristics of the identified knowledge and skills and derive suggestions for KM system design accordingly. Our study gives rise to challenge the common idea that KM design should be chosen according to the type of knowledge (explicit versus tacit) to be managed. Incorporating further knowledge characteristics (task domain and volatility of knowledge), our results indicate that organisations should implement a codification strategy or a strategy between codification and personalisation, depending on the knowledge at hand.
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Kitson-Boyce, Rosie, Nicholas Blagden, Belinda Winder, and Gayle Dillon. "“This Time It’s Different” Preparing for Release Through a Prison-Model of CoSA: A Phenomenological and Repertory Grid Analysis." Sexual Abuse 31, no. 8 (May 23, 2018): 886–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1079063218775969.
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Circles of support and accountability (CoSA) in the prison-model begin prior to the core members’ release from prison and continue with them on release in to the community. The purpose of this study was to explore the expectations of release of those convicted of a sexual offense and how this develops during their participation in the prison sessions of CoSA. The research question was to consider how the prison-model of CoSA relates to the desistance of crime, in particular the phases of desistance developed by Gobbels, Ward, and Willis. Data were collected using both phenomenological interviews and repertory grids at two different time points; prior to starting the circle in prison ( n = 9) and just before release ( n = 5). The findings suggest the prison sessions provide a sense of support and “no longer being alone” often absent in those who sexually offend. The additional prison sessions enabled the participants to experience this during their approaching release date; a stressful period that was characterized by anxiety. Further research is now required to explore whether circles in the prison-model are able to encourage and reinforce the cognitive change required for desistance, enabling the core members to successfully manage their underlying anxieties surrounding societal stigmatization.
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Osterberg-Kaufmann, Norma, and Kay Key Teo. "Uncoupling Conceptual Understandings and Political Preferences: A Study of Democratic Attitudes among Singapore's Highly Educated Young People." Pacific Affairs 95, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 497–526. http://dx.doi.org/10.5509/2022953497.
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Democracy is subject to constant and seemingly interminable contestation in academic and policy contexts, and yet, empirically and methodologically robust analysis of what the term means in practice for actual citizens has remained an area of relative lacuna. Admittedly, large-N surveys have attempted to address this research gap by examining attitudes to numerous components of democracy, but without the fine-grained detail required to overcome simply reproducing the focus on liberal procedural, Western precedent-based, top-down approaches to understanding such a complex and varied political system. This article proposes a methodological approach, based on the requirements of comparative political theory and research into how people view democracy. This allows us to explore political attitudes and the meaning of democracy with a bottom-up approach using the methods of repertory grid and in-depth interviews. Singapore is a particularly exciting case for comparative political science: although it has all the advantageous conditions that, according to classic modernization theory, promote the development of democracy, it is still not a democracy.<br/> To what extent will the conceptualization of democracy by citizens in a country like Singapore resemble theoretical definitions, and how suitable do they consider democracy to be for Singapore? What are their expectations for a good government or regime? This article examines what highly educated Singaporeans, ranging in age from their twenties to their forties, think about democracy. In doing so, the article also pursues the goal of comparing methods between repertory grid interviews and in-depth interviews in order to work out potential interfaces, and points of connection, between the two methods to allow for the most productive research outcomes. We find that, conceptually, these Singaporeans' perceptions of democracy appeared very similar to what is usually discussed as electoral democracy in established literature. When evaluating the performance of a government or a regime, however, liberal ideas of freedom and fairness competed with more pragmatic approaches that reflect the principles of progress and success as well as community and performance-focused orientations. As a result, our respondents did not prioritize democratic practices as much as other aspects of governance like e ciency. Our findings on the influence of state ideology on highly educated young people in Singapore strengthen the arguments of political myth as an integration and legitimization strategy in autocratic regimes and democratizing strong states or regimes with a particularly pronounced ideological hegemony.
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Weinberg, Mark, Johann Louw, and Helgo Schomer. "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the Personal Construction of Self." South African Journal of Psychology 24, no. 1 (March 1994): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639402400103.
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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) has attracted a great deal of media attention in recent years, much of it unfavourable. Despite increasing evidence that ME may have a viral, immunological, or neurological aetiology, this publicity has led to people with ME experiencing negative reactions from many medical doctors and lay-people, who have regarded them as depressed at best and malingerers at worst. Two questions are examined in this article: What is the effect of such negative reaction on the self-concepts of sufferers? Does diagnosis of ME improve self-concept? A rating-style repertory grid was drawn up following semi-structured interviews with a sample of 15 diagnosed ME sufferers. This was administered to a sample of 50 people with ME. The results indicated that a change in self-concept had indeed occurred since contracting ME, but that diagnosis had no effect on this change. ME sufferers actually identified themselves in the same negative terms as they perceived their unfavourable public stereotype.
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Jokuschies, Nina, Vanessa Gut, and Achim Conzelmann. "Systematizing coaches’ ‘eye for talent': Player assessments based on expert coaches’ subjective talent criteria in top-level youth soccer." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 12, no. 5 (October 2017): 565–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954117727646.
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Although talent selection in professional soccer mainly relies on the subjective judgment of scouts and coaches, little is known to date about top-level soccer coaches’ conceptions of talent. Drawing on a constructivist approach, this mixed method study intends to give an in-depth insight into coaches’ subjective talent criteria and to investigate the validity and reliability of their player assessments based on these criteria. Five national youth soccer coaches were examined using semistructured inductive interviews and the repertory grid technique. The results reveal experienced soccer coaches’ subjective talent criteria and indicate the multidimensional nature of their concepts of talent. There is a high correlation (−.57 ≤ rs ≤ −.81) between the coaches’ assessment of their players based on their own talent criteria and their previous evaluation of these players’ overall potential, indicating criterion validity. Repeated evaluations of the players according to a coach’s talent criteria display an adequate test–retest reliability over a period of 10 weeks.
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Moreno, Adrian A., and Julius C. Dano. "FROM DYSTOPIA TO UTOPIA: THE PERCEPTIONS OF OSTOMY CLIENTS." Volume 2 Issue 2 2, no. 2 (April 15, 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.31674/mjmr.2018.v02i02.001.
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Following ostomy surgery, patients experience overwhelming changes which often affect their overall well-being (Ito et al., 2012). Surprisingly, there is paucity on the perceptions and views of clients with an ostomy in a Filipino understanding. A phenomenological lens anchored on the philosophy of Husserl was used to discover and describe the lived experience of clients with ostomy. Purposive-Snowball sampling was utilized in the study. Conversational, formal and semi-structured interviews were the methods used as means to unravel the experience of the participants. Data analysis was based on Colaizzi’s methodology. The whole process was based on the data, transcribed interviews, sorting, categorizations (cool analysis), categories as thematized (warm analysis) and a repertory grid or a dendrogram that paved the way to discovering the value of the lived experiences of clients with ostomy. The description of the experience revealed two major themes namely, the Dystopia experience that emanate from the participants’ negative perceptions of alienation, desolation and desperation. Moreover, the second theme is the Utopia experience that derives from the participants’ understanding of acceptance, gratitude, and enlightenment. It is imperative that there is a need to understand the perceptions of clients with ostomy to devise an appropriate plan of care that addresses the main goal of a healthy transition.
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Yıldırım, Rana, and Duygu İspinar Akcayoglu. "A Study of Young Gifted Learners’ and Their Teachers’ Perceptions of Effective EFL Learners." Journal for the Education of the Gifted 42, no. 1 (December 17, 2018): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162353218816507.
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This study compared gifted learners’ and their English teachers’ perceptions of who is an effective English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. The research questions include the following: (a) What are young gifted learners’ perceptions of an effective EFL learner? (b) What are English teachers’ perceptions of an effective EFL learner? and (c) Is there a match between young gifted learners’ and their English teachers’ perceptions of an effective EFL learner? The participants were two gifted learners attending the English classes at the Science and Arts Center (BILSEM) in Adana, Turkey, and two English teachers working with these students. Data were collected through repertory grids, written accounts of the students, and retrospective interviews. Findings include implications for designing appropriate instruction for gifted EFL learners and teacher educators who work with these specific learners.
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Grimell, Jan. "Making dialogue with an existential voice in transition from military to civilian life." Theory & Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 23, 2017): 832–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354317739164.
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Dialogical Self Theory has contributed to the endeavors to map and grid self-identity work in transition from military to civilian life throughout an empirical and longitudinal research project which focuses on existential dimensions. This article is based on a case study from this project and centers upon Sergeant Jonas, who, upon his return from deployment in Afghanistan, struggled with his transition as a new existential position was vocalized throughout the following annual interviews. This voice narrated feelings of meaninglessness, emptiness, and of having been deceived. In turn, this existential voice required an answer to a question which apparently had no answer. The meaning-making eventually evolved into an acceptance which enabled Jonas to proceed with his life. Dialogical processes between positions are important in order to go on with life amid existential concerns in the aftermath of military service since dialogicality of the self opens up a complex of dynamics of meaning-making processes, negotiations, and transformations. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the Personal Position Repertoire could potentially be strengthened by the addition of an internal existential position to its standard repertoire, at least when working with military personnel and/or veterans.
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Nelson, Phil, and Jennifer Brown. "Identifying New Roles and Responsibilities for the Inspector within a Provincial Constabulary: Results of a Job Analysis." International Journal of Police Science & Management 1, no. 1 (March 1998): 58–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146135579800100107.
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With the advent of structural and organisational changes within the police forces of England and Wales, the role of Inspector has been the subject of critical rethinking. In order to review this police rank within one provincial police force, a job analysis was conducted into the present and desired future role and responsibilities of the uniformed Inspector. Methods used included interviews, task activity analyses, role repertory grids and content analyses of existing job descriptions. Results revealed a lack of clear role definition as presently conceived and differences between senior and more junior officers in their assessments of appropriate levels of functioning for the Inspector. Differences also emerged in views about the deployment of Inspectors as generalists based on territorial deployment or as functional specialists. Some resolution of these differences was attempted and formalised into a proposed new job definition.
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Quirk, Dustin, and Devi Jankowicz. "Construal Of Voluntary Environmental Program Participation In The Canadian Residential Construction Industry." Journal of Sustainability Management (JSM) 3, no. 1 (November 30, 2015): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jsm.v3i1.9414.
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This is a study of sensemaking of how Canadian new home builders construe their decision to participate in a voluntary environmental program (Built Green Canada). The Repertory Grid Technique was the data collection method. Findings from 32 interviews revealed a number of themes that decision makers used to make sense of their decision to participate in the program. The most prevalent views related to seeing the decision as a function of being a leader or innovator in the industry and using the program as a marketing and sales tool. Furthermore, themes that were seen as important related to legitimacy/authenticity/integrity and environmental impact. An assessment of which drivers/pressures were important to decision makers in making the decision to join the program was also undertaken. Important drivers/pressures included handling competition, appealing to customers, acquiring technical knowledge, obtaining publicity, building corporate culture/identity, and obtaining third party certifications. The findings are significant as it assists in refining the emergent field of environmental decision making and planning. The results are also useful for industry, voluntary environmental program organizations, and government policy makers to provide them with a better understan
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ÖZDEMİR-YILMAZER, Meryem. "Supervision Beliefs in Cooperating Teacher-University Supervisor Dyad: Implications for Reflective Dialogue to Strengthen Partnership." Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education 10, no. 2 (June 5, 2021): 232–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14686/buefad.774178.
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In most teacher education programmes, school-faculty partnerships provide a vital opportunity for student teachers to learn about teaching. This partnership, however, is undermined by the lack of collaboration between cooperating teachers and university supervisors who are paired up in a student teaching triad to help student teachers improve their teaching skills. As it has been reported in the literature that both cooperating teachers and university supervisors act upon their personal beliefs of how to supervise student teachers, one way to resolve this lack of collaboration is to understand their supervision beliefs. Therefore, drawing on the Personal Construct Theory, this case study aims at exploring the personal theories of a supervisor and a cooperating teacher in relation to effective supervision. The data was collected through the repertory grid technique and analysed on a REP Plus computer software program. The analysis was also supported by follow-up interviews. The results revealed shared and idiosyncratic personal theories of the university supervisor and the cooperating teacher and suggest the need for reflective dialogue and joint communication between dyad members over these beliefs to sustain collaborative school-university partnership.
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Partridge, Katie. "Exploring pastoral staff’s experiences of their own emotional well-being in a secondary school." Educational and Child Psychology 29, no. 4 (2012): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsecp.2012.29.4.121.
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Mental Health (MH) and Emotional Well-Being (EWB) strategies such as Social, Emotional Aspects of Learning (DfES, 2005, 2007) and the Targeted Mental Health in Schools project (DCSF, 2009) are increasingly implemented in schools. However, there has been little research into the EWB of staff. This paper reports mixed methods research that explored six pastoral staff’s experiences of their own EWB in a secondary school. The qualitative phase explored participants’ experiences using semi-structured interviews and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The quantitative phase adopted Personal Construct Psychology and participants took part in Repertory Grid interviews to explore how they construed work situations.Findings are discussed in relation to the literature and both psychodynamic and systemic theoretical perspectives were applied at an individual and organisational level. The findings corroborate existing theory and literature, and extend findings regarding interpersonal relationships. Interestingly, experiences could be simultaneously difficult to manage emotionally yet be positive for staff EWB as working through adversity generated internal reward. Nevertheless, in order to manage the emotional demands and provide a containing function to others, coping mechanisms were employed and containment was sought. The research indicated both idiographic and nomothetic findings which inform our understanding of individual differences and how overarching concepts such as containment were applicable for all participants. Implications for Educational Psychology (EP) practice are discussed in relation to developing the EWB needs of pastoral staff and promoting a supportive whole school ethos through consultations, group work and training.
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Pandey, Santosh Kumar, and Amit Mookerjee. "Assessing the role of emotions in B2B decision making: an exploratory study." Journal of Indian Business Research 10, no. 2 (June 18, 2018): 170–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jibr-10-2017-0171.
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Purpose Emotions in business-to-business (B2B) interactions are relatively unexplored when compared with business-to customer (B2C) industry wherein sufficient evidence implicating the role of emotions in decision-making is available. This study aims to explore the role of emotions in B2B decision-making, and a customer experience model is suggested for the B2B industry. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative research methodology using structured and semi-structured interviews along with a repertory grid technique was followed during the study. Purposive sampling was done to identify respondents who were involved in the vendor choice process either as a buyer or a seller in their respective organizations. Findings Exploratory research conducted during this study supports the presence of five dimensions of customer experience – sensory, emotional, relational, behavioural and intellectual – in a B2B context. The study further indicates that the experiential value for B2B decision-making is derived from functional, symbolic, emotional and cost values which are assessed by the buyer during their interaction with the product or the service ecosystem and has an impact on the purchase intentions of an industrial buyer. Originality/value This paper identifies the role of specific customer experience dimensions in a B2B environment and proposes the role and mechanism of emotional factors affecting the decision-making process in B2B exchange.
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Bundtzen, Hennings, and Gerriet Hinrichs. "Innovation capability of the company: the roles of leadership and error management." Marketing and Management of Innovations, no. 1 (2021): 112–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2021.1-09.
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Extensive research has been conducted promoting empowerment, inclusive decision making, and self-determination by employees. However, where does an organization initiate change if employees stay in their comfort zone and rather have a work-to-rule mentality? They just do not take over responsibility and the power they are given. The inductive case study involved first-hand data about leader-member exchange and corporate culture. A qualitative research approach was selected by employing personal construct psychology to receive an unbiased cultural view of employees and leaders interacting. A sample of 61 repertory grid structured interviews with 21 leaders and 40 employees produced 782 unique personal assessment criteria. The applied methodology allows a quantitative analysis of these assessments in association with leadership, error management, and employees' proactive behavior. This unusual psychological-based approach chosen as intuitive interviews predicated on personal construct psychology is unlikely to provoke socially desirable or questionnaire-driven results. Based on the case study findings, a systematic review of contemporary scientific literature was conducted to generate broadly applicable results. The final qualitative synthesis included 41 research articles relevant to the investigated topic. Theoretical and empirical results allowed concluding that leadership vulnerability supports error management and employees' psychological safety. These combinations are prerequisites to proactive behavior. Additional preconditions to proactivity are employee resilience and organizational commitment. This article's results could give practical recommendations in case organizations lack the proactive behavior of their workforce. Finally, this article advocates further research on vulnerability in leadership and managers communicating their own weaknesses and mistakes as it is an underrepresented area in current scientific literature.
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Durgun, Denizcan, Cihat Günden, and Vahdet Ünal. "Information source preferences of small-scale fishers in the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey." Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 51, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/aiep.51.63396.
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Information source preferences of small-scale fishers can play a role in decision-making processes and affect the sustainability of small-scale fisheries. In this respect, determining useful communication tools to eliminate the information gaps and lack of information of fishers is important for sustainable and effective fisheries management. The purpose of this study was the determination of the preferred source of information and priorities of the small-scale fishers who operate along the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. Data were collected from a random sample of 278 small-scale Turkish fishers located along the Aegean coastline via face-to-face interviews. Information source preferences of fishers were determined by Repertory Grid Technique. In the analysis, obtaining information about fisheries focused on three criteria such as marine ecology, fisheries technology, and fisheries policies. The level of importance given by fishers for each criterion was determined. Fishers prefer to get information from other fishers, followed by fishery cooperatives, and their own experiences (χ2 (11, n = 278) = 1305.920, P < 0.001). Fishery cooperatives are the closest organizations to fishers. The use of cooperatives as a source of information can be interpreted as an element that can facilitate access to information when evaluated through the “availability” of behavioral economics. Fishery cooperatives, which stand out in fishers’ information source preferences, have the potential to be a valuable source of information in all aspects. The results of the research are thought to benefit researchers from non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and universities that carry out national and international projects with fishers.
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GIMENEZ, FERNANDO A. P., CLEUFE PELISSON, EUGÊNIO G. S. KRÜGER, and PAULO HAYASHI. "SMALL FIRMS' OWNER-MANAGERS CONSTRUCTION OF COMPETITION." Journal of Enterprising Culture 08, no. 04 (December 2000): 361–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021849580000019x.
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This study explores how small firms' owner-managers view competition in their business environment and how this view may be associated with specific strategic choices leading to a competitive position in their markets. Its main research question deals with why different small firms' owner-managers choose different competitive strategies in a given industry setting. One of its main contentions is that in examining this phenomenon it was necessary first to explore the mental categorisations that guide the entrepreneurs' understanding of their competitive environment. Competition is a core concept in strategic management, and analysis of competitors' strategies is thought to be essential for a better understanding of competition and strategy formulation (Porter, 1980). Top managers' understanding of their competitive systems influences their decisions and acts, and in turn shapes their environment (Weick, 1979). As Zahra and Pearce (1990) have indicated, there is considerable theoretical and practical importance in further exploration of the processes that influence decision choices of dominant individuals within an organisation. One situation in which the views of an individual (as opposed to those of a political grouping) are likely to be dominant is that of the small business owner-manager, suggesting that studying samples of entrepreneurs could be a starting point for developing more psychological models of strategic choice. Data were collected with a sample of small firms' owners and managers running their businesses in the city of Londrina, Pr. The data collection procedures involved detailed and systematic interviews. A cognitive perspective was followed using Repertory Grid Technique that is derived from George Kelly's Personal Constructs Psychology. This technique allowed for the elicitation of constructs adopted by the respondents in the process of making sense of their competitive environment. Further data analysis indicated the most common features associated with the entrepreneurs' view of competitors' strategies. This allowed for the construction of taxonomy of strategic positions based on respondents' perception of their competitive environment.
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Smith, Lauren N., and David McMenemy. "Young people’s conceptions of political information." Journal of Documentation 73, no. 5 (September 11, 2017): 877–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-03-2017-0041.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore young people’s conceptions of political information. The study sought to identify what political information sources young people encounter, how they construe these sources and the messages they communicate, and how the information experiences of young people may be better understood to inform information literacy interventions to support the development of political agency. Design/methodology/approach Using personal construct theory as a conceptual framework, repertory grid (RG) interviews were used to explore the different ways in which 23 young people aged 14-15 from a town in Northern England conceive of political information and how they evaluate its quality and authority. Findings The study identified the sources of information young people engage with for finding and receiving what they understand as political information. The results from the RG interviews indicated that young people use a wide range of sources of political information to become informed about politics and the world around them. These sources of information include family, friends, teachers, television news, newspapers, radio shows, comedy shows, social media and community meetings. Participants were aware that they passively encounter information sources as well as actively engage in debate and discussion with other sources. Some participants had difficulty critically evaluating the political information sources they encounter. The nature of young people’s experiences of political information varied greatly. The degree of complexity in the experiences of political information varied not only between participants but was also dependent on their particular relationship with the information sources under scrutiny. Research limitations/implications The paper has implications for personal construct analysis as a research approach broadly, from the point of view of its use within library and information science research. It is the first study to apply the personal construct approach to the study of young people’s political information use and to consider implications for information literacy support that would have been difficult to access using other approaches. Practical implications The paper provides insight into an understudied area; that of young people’s conceptions of political information. This insight may be used to inform the improvement of political information provision and information literacy support for young people. Social implications A deeper understanding of the different ways in which young people identify, engage with and use information for political purposes may contribute to a clearer understanding of young people’s information needs, ideally leading to improved political education and a strengthened democratic process. Originality/value The paper explores a relatively under-researched area of library and information science research, and does so using a relatively under-used method in the domain. Insights into the perceived characteristics of different sources of political information are novel and contribute to the development of information behaviour and information literacy fields in terms of information for empowerment and democracy.