Answer To: 1. Instructor's Notes # 2 2. Healey 10 th edition Chapter 15 start reading from page 412. Healey 11...
Ajay answered on Jul 20 2022
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How Do Public Organizations Learn? Bridging Cultural and Structural Perspectives
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the research question?
How do public organization learn?
2. What sample is used?
The data were obtained from a 2004 survey of Texas State agencies, the Survey of Organizational Excellence. A total of 62,628 employees were surveyed in 53 different state agencies, resulting in 34,668 usable responses.
3. What is the number of respondents used in this analysis?
A total of 62,628 respondents were used for this analysis.
4. What quantitative method was used to answer the research question?
Case study method is used to answer the research question.
5. What are independent and dependent variables?
Dependent variables – organizational learning
Independent variable – Adequacy of resources, effective information systems, mission orientation, decision flexibility, learning forums
6. How are these variables measured?
By recording close ended individual responses
7. Specify the regression equation using the results from Table 1 (with all theoretical and control variables).
Y = alpha + a1x1 +b2x2 +b3x3 +b4x4 +b5x5
8. Give your interpretation of the regression coefficients of the five theoretical variables (effects).
All the regression coefficients are positively associated with Organizational Learning Controlling for Agency-Level
Effects. information systems is 0.147, mission orientation is 0.13, decision flexibility is 0.07, learning forums is 0.41, and adequacy of resources is 0.088.
9. Explain why we can use the regression coefficients to interpret the relative strength of these effects (no need for the Betas)?
Statisticians consider regression coefficients to be an unstandardized effect size because they indicate the strength of the relationship between variables using values that retain the natural units of the dependent variable. Effect sizes help you understand how important the findings are in a practical sense.
10. Give your interpretation of the regression coefficients of all control variables.
While most of the variables are statistically significant, none approaches the explanatory power of any of the theoretical variables tested. We find that age is positively related to perceptions of learning, but length of state service is not. This finding is consistent with other results showing that older public sector employees tend to have positive job attitudes, but that those who have been in the same organization or position for a long time (controlling for age) tend to be less engaged (Moynihan & Landuyt, 2009). The impact of tenure may cause employees to negatively modify their expectations toward organizational activity, so that they are more likely to be critical of and less involved in organizational learning eff orts. We fi nd that supervisors, females, and minorities are more likely to perceive evidence of learning, although the impact of supervisory and minority status is relatively small and signifi cant only at the .01 level. Interestingly, level of education is negatively related to perceptions of organizational learning. Th is may be because those with more educational experience have higher standards for what constitutes learning. A complementary explanation is that those with greater education begin with a higher level of knowledge, and so their organizational experiences are less likely to engender new knowledge.
11. What are the practical implications of the research results?
Let’s begin by pulling back a bit. Research aims to broaden knowledge in the physical, biological, and social spheres. This discovery of new knowledge can be either in the form of new concepts or the advancement of existing knowledge, leading to a new understanding or innovation. The findings of a study need to be appraised in the context of the field, as well as its practical utility. In other words, readers and other researchers are interested in knowing what your findings mean for your field, perhaps even other fields, as well as policymaking (if applicable). The implications of a study are typically described in the Discussion section or
the Conclusion section (in journals where the latter is a separate section from the former), where the study limitations and road ahead are mentioned.
12. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of...