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WHAT WE SHOULD STUDY, PROBLEMS WE SHOULD SOLVE: PERSPECTIVES OF TWO CONSTITUENCIES
Author(s) -
STRASSER STEPHEN,
BATEMAN THOMAS S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1984.tb02248.x
Subject(s) - psychology , congruence (geometry) , sample (material) , perception , empirical research , qualitative research , content analysis , applied psychology , medical education , public relations , social psychology , sociology , social science , political science , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience
Qualitative data from management and non‐management employees were content analyzed to assess their perceptions of what organizational problems they would most like academic researchers to study. These data are then compared to the publications that have appeared in empirical journals over ten journal years (Campbell, Daft, and Hulin, 1982). Results indicate: (1) specific problem areas health care practitioners want studied: (2) strong congruence between the interests of the management and non‐management subsamples; and (3) areas where academicians are not meeting the research needs of this sample.