Developing Competency Model Using Repertory Grid Technique: The Case of Spinning Master

This paper aims to develop the Competency Model using Repertory Grid Technique. 15 Spinning Master of a large textile company in India were interviewed using repertory grid technique. The study identified 9 competencies in 3 competency clusters that are Interpersonal Relationship, Operational Efficiency and Individual Traits. The study is the first attempt to develop competency model in any textile company and can be useful in implementing competency based HR practices in the organizations. The Repertory Grid Technique used in the study helps in developing competency model in a quick and comprehensive manner that may reduce the time, labor and cost involved in the same

An Overview and Tutorial of the Repertory Grid Technique in Information Systems Research

Interest in the repertory grid technique has been growing in the IS field. This article seeks to inform the reader on the proper use and application of the technique in IS research. The methodology has unique advantages that make it suitable for many research settings. In this tutorial, we describe the technique, its theoretical underpinnings, and how it may be used by IS researchers. We conclude by detailing many IS research opportunities that exist in respect to the repertory grid technique

The use of the repertory grid as a technique using group data to assess changes in learning

In this thesis, I look at the use of the repertory grid as a technique for assessing learning and for assessing changes in learning as a result of taking a course in psychology. The thesis looks into the cognitions of trainee teachers (called 'novices') and a comparison group of experienced psychologists (called 'experts') regarding "psychology topics in teaching and learning". As a group, the novices completed repertory grids before and after the psychology course. Experts completed one repertory grid. Analysis of the repertory grids revealed six main construct categories (called 'themes'). The themes were found to apply to both novice and expert grids. There are shifts in emphasis between the themes identified in the data of the novices before and after the lecture courses, and there were significant differences between the number and distribution of the themes between the novice grids and those of the experts. The results point to the potential of using the repertory grid technique in assessing learning using group data, Identifying changes In learning over time, and comparing expert and novice cognitions. Implications of the technique for further investigation into learning and expertise are discussed along with possible extensions

Kelly's repertory grid: a technique for developing evaluation in design and technology

The paper discusses the potential of applying repertory grid techniques in response to the introduction of the 'Product and Applications' and 'Quality' programmes of study in the new national curriculum for design and technology. The paper draws upon research carried out as part of a series of pilot studies carried out in initial teacher education workshops during the past year. This is an ongoing study currently being extended into infant classrooms. The paper also discusses Phillips problematic attempt at applying repertory technique in the context of the secondary school design education of boys and girls. The paper concludes by arguing that a modified version of the classic 'triad elicitation method' provided by the repertory grid technique provides a powerful means of revealing students personal constructs of technological products and artefacts

THE REPERTORY GRID INTERVIEW OF A DEPRESSED PATIENT

The construct system of a patient of Depression is investigated with the Rank Order Repertory Grid Technique, using principal component analysis to analyse the grid matrix. The investigation helps test clinical judgments and hypotheses concerning the patient and also suggests new directions for further clinical enquiry. This case study demonstrates how the grid technique can make possible a more comprehensive understanding of the cognitive processes of the patient

Cycles of construing in radicalization and deradicalization: a study of Salafist Muslims.

© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This article explores radicalization and deradicalization by considering the experiences of six young Tunisian people who had become Salafist Muslims. Their responses to narrative interviews and repertory grid technique are considered from a personal construct perspective, revealing processes of construing and reconstruing, as well as relevant aspects of the structure and content of their construct systems. In two cases, their journeys involved not only radicalization but self-deradicalization, and their experiences are drawn on to consider implications for deradicalization.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Repertory grid technique in research on the psychological therapies

It is contended that research on the psychological therapies requires a measuring instrument sensitive to the specificity of the variables and the individuality of the clients under study. Repertory grid technique is considered to fulfil these requirements, and the study concerns itself largely with the validity and usefulness of this instrument in such research. Major hypotheses are that: grid measures are meaningfully related to independent measures; meaningful differences obtain between clients clinically assigned to group psychotherapy and those assigned to behaviour therapy; and between characteristics predictive of response to these two therapies; individualised predictions of therapeutic outcome are more successful than general predictions. The validity of various non-grid measures is also examined, as is the relative ease of change on all measures during therapy. The hypotheses are tested by the pre-treatment assessment of 64 neurotic out-patients, and the serial re-assessment of 20 of those receiving group psychotherapy and 20 receiving behaviour therapy. Support is provided for all the major hypotheses. Certain grid indices of maladjustment are found to be meaningfully interrelated and associated with independent measures, and expected relation- ships are observed between non-grid measures. Meaningful differences between group and behaviour therapy clients, and between characteristics predictive of response to the two therapies, are found in construing and on non-grid measures. These results support Caine's model of a relationship between adjustment strategies, treatment expectancies, symptoms, and therapeutic response, and also suggest the importance of content of construing in deter- mining the latter. More individualised than general grid predictions of therapeutic change are confirmed, and this is not a function of a general reduction in extremity of construing. Evidence is also provided that therapeutic change is multidimensional, with greater ease of change at the symptom level. Implications for treatment selection, outcome criteria, therapeutic strategies, and further research are discussed

Diversity and career construction in higher education : the use of the repertory grid

The goal of this study is to analyse of career personal construction of 118 college students (52.5% female and 47.5% male participants; Mages= 23.4; SD = 4.03). A constructivist technique adapted from “Repertory Grid” (Kelly, 1955), the Career Repertory Grid (GRC, Silva & Taveira, 2005) is used to assess how the students’ established relations between career constructs, identity features and relevant models for the construction of career identity. Results of the GRC are presented, for the total sample and for two individuals, a college woman and a college man. Implications of this study for practice and future research are discussed.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

Persuading developers to buy into software process improvement: an exploratory analysis

In order to investigate practitioners' opinions of software process and software process improvement, we have collected information from 13 companies, in a variety of ways i.e. the use of Repertory Grid Technique, survey and focus group discussions. Both the Repertory Grid Technique and the focus group discussions (43 discussions occurred, in total) produced a large volume of qualitative data. At the same time, other researchers have reported--investigations of practitioners, and we are interested in how their reports may relate to our own. Thus, other research publications can also be treated as a form of qualitative data. In this paper, we review advice on a method, content analysis, that is used to analyse qualitative data. Content analysis is a method for identifying and classifying words and phrases used in--ordinary language. We use content analysis to describe and analyse discussions on software--process and software process improvement. We report preliminary findings from an analysis--of both the focus group evidence and some publications. Our main finding is that there is an--apparent contradiction between developers saying that they want evidence for software process improvement, and what developers will accept as evidence. This presents a serious problem for research: even if researchers could demonstrate a strong, reliable relationship between software process improvement and improved organisational performance, there would still be the problem of convincing practitioners that the evidence applies to their particular situation