Selecting Performance Measures: "Objective" versus "Subjective" Measurement

Muckler, Frederick A.; Seven, Sally A.

doi:10.1177/001872089203400406

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“…Conversely, authors such as Landis (2001) and Stewart and Nandkeolyar (2007) consider that such measures show consistency and objectivity. In our view, both objective and subjective measures are useful, and which kind is used will depend on the purpose of the study (Muckler & Seven, 1992). In this regard, we believe that our measures of effectiveness are consistent with our objectives.…”

Section: Limitations and Recommendations For Future Researchsupporting

confidence: 59%

Chaotic dynamics and team effectiveness: Evidence from professional basketball

Ramos-Villagrasa

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Izquierdo

2012

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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CorrespondencePedro José Ramos Villagrasa Facultad de Psicología, cabina nº5, Plaza Feijóo s/n, 33003 Oviedo (Spain) E-mail: ramospedro@uniovi.es Key wordsTeam effectiveness, team stability, complex adaptive systems, nonlinear dynamical systems theory, basketball. AbstractConsidering teams as complex adaptive systems (CAS) this study deals with changes in team effectiveness over time in a specific context: professional basketball.The sample comprised 23 basketball teams whose outcomes were analysed over a twelve-year period according to two objective measures. The results reveal that all the teams showed chaotic dynamics, one of the key characteristics of CAS. A relationship was also found between teams showing low-dimensional chaotic dynamics and better outcomes, supporting the idea of healthy variability in organizational behaviour. The stability of the squad was likewise found to influence team outcomes, although it was not associated with the chaotic dynamics in team effectiveness. It is concluded that studying teams as CAS enables fluctuations in team effectiveness to be explained, and that the techniques derived from nonlinear dynamical systems, developed specifically for the study of CAS, are useful for this purpose.

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Section: Limitations and Recommendations For Future Researchsupporting

confidence: 59%

Chaotic dynamics and team effectiveness: Evidence from professional basketball

Ramos-Villagrasa

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Izquierdo

2012

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

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“…The questions for the survey instrument adopted a statement-based assessment with five-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Statement-based assessments must avoid possible measurement bias from the potential inconsistency in responses due to respondents' subjective perceptions [25,[67][68][69].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This approach reduces the latent effects of measurement biases, and avoids misleading the meaning of the results representing the industry benchmark because mean value of the responses from multiple team members could represent the average level of implementation of the sustainability practices [67,68]. This approach provides an additional benefit of aligning project team members and stakeholders participating in each project phase.…”

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Benchmarking Sustainability Practices Use throughout Industrial Construction Project Delivery

Yun

Jung

2017

Sustainability

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Despite the efforts for sustainability studies in building and infrastructure construction, the sustainability issues in industrial construction remain understudied. Further, few studies evaluate sustainability and benchmark sustainability issues in industrial construction from a management perspective. This study presents a phase-based benchmarking framework for evaluating sustainability practices use focusing on industrial facilities project. Based on the framework, this study quantifies and assesses sustainability practices use, and further sorts the results by project phase and major project characteristics, including project type, project nature, and project delivery method. The results show that sustainability practices were implemented higher in the construction and startup phases relative to other phases, with a very broad range. An assessment by project type and project nature showed significant differences in sustainability practices use, but no significant difference in practices use by project delivery method. This study contributes to providing a benchmarking method for sustainability practices in industrial facilities projects at the project phase level. This study also discusses and provides an application of phase-based benchmarking for sustainability in industrial construction.

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“…While it can be claimed that everything is subjective to some extent and therefore questionable whether true objectivity is possible (Muckler, 1992), the terms are widely used in social indicators research (e.g. Diener & Suh, 1997;Wish, 1986;Parks, 1984;Kuz,1978), with subjective relating to citizens experiences, perceptions and evaluations of their own 'reality', and objective being the 'official reality' as measured by government agencies.…”

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Same question, different answer: A comparison of GIS-based journey time accessibility with self-reported measures from the National Travel Survey in England

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Nelson

Anable

2015

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Accessibility measures are usually designed to be objective representations of the 'real' conditions to provide a baseline for planning decisions and to track change over time. A wide range of approaches to measuring accessibility have been developed, usually based largely on quantifiable factors such as journey time. The simplest of these are based on the time taken to reach the nearest destination from an origin point. Destinations might include healthcare, education, employment or supermarkets, amongst others. This paper posits that people's perceptions and experiences may differ from objectively measured conditions and crucially may be more important for understanding behaviour. An understanding of the difference between objective and subjective measures, and how they relate to each other is therefore vital before using either measure to inform policy decisions. This paper compares two approaches to measuring journey time accessibility to a range of destinations using objective measures of accessibility, calculated using GIS and individuals' self reported values, based on travel survey data.Using two publically available datasets for England this paper explores the two approaches to measuring journey time accessibility to a range of destinations. Discordance between the two is found. Survey reported measures are found to be greater than objective measures in urban areas, but less in rural areas. This can be understood partly due to differences both between objective measures and reality and between perceptions and reality.

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Selecting Performance Measures: "Objective" versus "Subjective" Measurement

Cited by 117 publications

References 31 publications

Chaotic dynamics and team effectiveness: Evidence from professional basketball

Chaotic dynamics and team effectiveness: Evidence from professional basketball

Benchmarking Sustainability Practices Use throughout Industrial Construction Project Delivery

Same question, different answer: A comparison of GIS-based journey time accessibility with self-reported measures from the National Travel Survey in England

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