Unfortunately, I will not continue in the class for the
second module.
My hypothesis
is that culture will affect the interaction between the international and US
personnel and create a SN that can potentially undermine the traditional
hierarchy and structure of WHINSEC.
In order to
gain insight into the SN, I would ask multiple questions through a
questionnaire or survey. Examples
follow:
1. What 3 people do you communicate with the most on a
professional basis?
2. What 3 people do you communicate with the most on a personal
basis?
3. Who is key to your success at WHINSEC?
4. Who is the most productive member of WHINSEC
personnel?
5. Who needs to know about your performance?
6. Who is your boss?
7. How do you communicate with your coworkers?
8. What interests do you have as a professional?
9. What personal interests do you have, outside of work?
10. What country are you from?
11. Aside from your country and the US, where else have
you lived?
12. Are you married?
13. Is your spouse currently residing with you?
14. How long have you been at WHINSEC?
These questions would help me determine attributes and
connections between nodes, in my SNA. I
would look for any commonalities between international personnel and
differences of the US personnel. I would
show who had the most centrality, with the idea that this person may be
influential in WHINSEC. I would compare
all data with the hierarchical organizational chart and find discrepancies. I would also need to follow this and other
analysis with more questions of specific people that showed characteristics of
interest in the first analysis. This
could potentially give ideas for integration and better networking or show
where hierarchical structure is not fulfilling the needs of the organization.
Michael Jones
1 comment:
Interesting idea. If you ever do this, you'll have to re-think your questions a bit. They are a mixture of fact and opinion, which isn't bad, but Qs like who's the key to your success, or who's the most productive member is open for interpretation--you'd need them to say why. It might also poison your survey, as they'd begin to question your motivation for doing it. If your main hypothesis is about "culture" you'd have to define that and craft Qs around it. All this would be examined were this ever to become real, which I hope it does.
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