MEASURING CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS - TYPES OF CHANGE GENERATED BY OD DESIGNS
MEASURING CHANGE AND PERSISTENCE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS - TYPES OF CHANGE GENERATED BY OD DESIGNS
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DOI：
10.1177/002188637601200201
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发表时间：
1976-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
YEAGER, S
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作者：
GOLEMBIEWSKI, RT;BILLINGSLEY, K;YEAGER, S
关于应用研究，有一条老生常谈，那就是不充分的变革概念会导致应用研究的减少或被误导。因此，本文敦促区分各种变化，这些变化和区别是由经验提出的，也得到了我们所从事的外来统计和计算技术产生的证据的支持。做出这样的区分的一个直接回报是更明确地依赖现有的研究结果，这些研究结果的解释必然与他们关于变化的基本概念有关。更重要的是，目标是促进对改善人类状况和生活质量的努力的设计和评估，特别是在组织中。最初，“改变”的概念澄清将表明至少有三种似乎是可区分的。稍后，来自一项“成功的”弹性时间干预研究的数据将被用来检验这些概念的澄清。详细的统计分析将支持这样一种广泛的观点，即单一的变革概念是不合适的，可能会严重误导。
There is a truism about applied research that an inadequate concept of change leads to diminished or misguided applied research. Hence this paper urges distinguishing kinds of change, distinctions which are suggested by experience and also are supported with evidence generated by exotic statistical and computational techniques in which we have been engaged. An immediate pay-off of making such distinctions is more definite reliance on existing research findings, whose interpretation is necessarily related to their underlying concept of change. More central still, the goal is to facilitate the design and evaluation of efforts to improve the human condition and the quality of life, especially in organizations.Initially, conceptual clarification of "change" will show that at least three kinds seem distinguishable. Later, data from a study of a "successful" Flexi-Time intervention will be used to test these conceptual clarifications. Detailed statistical analysis will support the broad position that a unitary concept of change is inappropriate and may be seriously misleading.