POSITIVE-FINDINGS BIAS, AND MEASURING METHODOLOGICAL RIGOR, IN EVALUATIONS OF ORGANIZATION-DEVELOPMENT
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
ROBERTS, DR; ROBERTSON, PJ
署名单位：
University of Southern California
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0021-9010
发表日期：
1992
页码：
918-925
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摘要：
According to the positive-findings bias hypothesis, there is a negative relationship between the methodological rigor of evaluations of organization development interventions and the reported success of those interventions. We performed three basic analyses of this issue. The first indicated no differences in rigor across intervention categories. The second indicated no significant negative correlations between rigor and reported success, for the overall sample or for any category of intervention or outcome variable. The third analysis indicated that the rigor measure used in the first two analyses, and in previous research, is problematic. Further analyses, with alternative rigor measures, indicated that results are quite sensitive to measure composition. There is a negative relationship between rigor and reported success for sampling criteria, and a positive relationship for measurement and analysis criteria.