From: Frank Shipper [mailto:
FMSHIPPER@ssu.edu]
Alice,
What is the purpose of your analysis?
Feedback to individual managers? If that is the purpose, I would suggest
that you look at some of the more comprehensive participant feedback
reports. The one that I like because it is both flexible and comprehensive
is the one developed for the Clark Wilson Surveys by the Booth Company in
Boulder, CO.
Group feedback? Some of the providers of 360 instruments have rather
comprehensive group reports. Again, the Booth Company's reports are both
flexible and comprehensive.
Validation feedback for management? This usually requires a custom analysis
where the 360 data is merged with performance data from a second source to
avoid common source error variance. For some of the better-known instruments
such as Clark Wilson's Survey of Management Practices, you can find
validation articles such as:
Shipper, F., (1995), "A Study of the Psychometric Properties of the
Managerial Skill Scales of the Survey of Management Practices," Journal of
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Volume 55, Number 3, pp. 486-497.
Also, many of the providers of 360 instruments can provide validation
studies for their instruments.
For developing research manuscripts? Here the type of research that might be
conducted is wide open because of the richness of 360 data. See the articles
on 360 feedback in the February issue of The Academy of Management Executive
for some ideas. One issue that I think that needs to be addressed is what
conditions both personally and organizationally enhance the effectiveness of
360 feedback?
You can find abstracts of the validation and research articles that I have
done on 360 feedback at the
http://faculty.ssu.edu/~fmshippe/home/biblist.htm
I hope that this gives you some ideas.
Frank Shipper, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Perdue School of Business
Salisbury State University
Salisbury, MD 21801
Phone: (410) 543-6333
FAX: (410) 546-6208
E-mail:
fmshipper@ssu.edu
Home Page:
http://perdue.ssu.edu/~fmshippe/home/welcome.htm
>>> Charles Wankel <
cxx@bellatlantic.net> 01/04/01 04:59PM >>>
Folks,
I am conducting a 360 degree feedback / Multirater process with a group.
As I collect the data, I am wondering what ways the readers of this list
might suggest as the best ways to analyze the information.
many thanks for your consideration
alice
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