scholarly journals Utilising personal construct psychology and the repertory grid interview method to meaningfully represent the voice of the child in their social relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
Alexandra Sewell
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Construct Psychology

scholarly journals A Constructivist Approach to Visualise Organisational Agility

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Henning Bundtzen ◽  
Mark Heckmann ◽  
Gerriet Hinrichs
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Procrustes Analysis ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Organisational Agility ◽  
Construct Psychology

The research question we would like to answer with this article is if agile related constructs or personal assessment criteria can be elicited from a personal construct system of employees and leaders by carrying out a repertory grid study in an organisation. The methodology of personal construct psychology was chosen to get an unbiased view of the corporate culture. In a plannable world an organisational structure with a hierarchy of executives and managers following a vertical top-down approach makes sense. A world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) requires a different model to organisational design. Horizontal integration that fosters involvement and empowerment has proven to be an agile response to this new environment. Consequently, agile management methods are a key instrument for an organisation to prepare for future challenges in a competitive industry. But how can an organisation assess its own agile status quo? This research uses personal construct psychology (PCP) to visualize the agility status of an organisation. A range of recent empirical and practical research articles were studied to filter the most relevant practices and critical factors of organisational agility. The findings are compared to a data basis generated by 61 repertory grid interviews carried out in a SME to evaluate whether personal construct theory is a suitable approach to assess the agility status of an organisation. The findings are visualised with a repertory grid software using Generalised Procrustes Analysis (GPA). This methodology creates a 3D visualisation of the agile assessment criteria derived from the interviews. By comparing the spatial distances between construct clusters and elements the researcher and reader able to assess whether an organisation has incorporated agile practices and traits or can further advance to react more agile and flexible to external forces. Repertory grid structured interviews based on PCP generate simultaneously quantitative and qualitative results. As these are compared to the literature-based findings, it reflects a triangulation research approach.

scholarly journals Assessing Corporate Sustainability with Repertory Grid Based Personal Construct Psychology

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Bundtzen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Construct Psychology

Corporate sustainability (CS) is becoming a key feature for preparing an organization for the future challenges of its competitive environment. It has expanded from corporate social responsibility (CSR) by adding the dimensions of ethical, environmental, economic and cultural responsibility whilst asking for a long-term perspective of sustainability for the aforementioned subjects. This paper summarizes the concept of corporate sustainability focusing on the most relevant topics of recent scientific literature. The findings are compared to the results of 61 repertory grid interviews to evaluate how far corporate sustainability is already carried into practical notion. It is tested whether this type of interview technique and the underlying theory of personal constructs allow a visualization of the CS status of an organization. In addition, this article gives a brief outlook on the interconnection of leadership, corporate culture and corporate sustainability.    

scholarly journals The Organization of Self-Knowledge in Adolescence: Some Contributions Using the Repertory Grid Technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 408-423
Author(s):  
Maria João Carapeto ◽  
Guillem Feixas
Keyword(s):  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Construct Psychology

(1) Background: This study aims to explore the usefulness of personal construct psychology as a comprehensive framework and assessment tool to embrace a diversity of self-knowledge organization constructs, and to account for developmental differences across adolescence. (2) Methods: The repertory grid technique was used to measure self-knowledge differentiation, polarization, discrepancies between Actual Self, Ideal Self, and Others, and implicative dilemmas, a particular kind of intrapersonal conflict. Data were collected from two samples of early and late adolescents, respectively. (3) Results: Globally, they showed that the organization of self-knowledge was different in both samples. In particular, older adolescents revealed a less polarized self-knowledge. In addition, they tended to construe higher Actual–Ideal self-discrepancies and to present more internal conflicts. No differences were found between early and late adolescents concerning global differentiation and the discrepancies between the self (Actual and Ideal) and the Others. (4) Conclusions: Despite the limitations of the study (e.g., small sample size, cross-sectional design), these novel results support the suitability of the repertory grid technique to capture developmental changes in self-knowledge organization during adolescence, as well as the explanatory potential of personal construct psychology to advance their understanding.

A personal construct approach to avoiding teacher “burnout” and “rustout”

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
C. T. Patrick Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Teacher Stress ◽  
Teacher Burnout ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Idiographic Approach ◽  
Construct Psychology

Personal construct psychology enabled teacher stress to be conceptualised in terms of their perceptions of their ability to cope with stressors. Different degrees of support were seen in terms of the teachers' allocation of dependencies. Pre- and post-intervention questionnaires and FOCUS-ed (or cluster analysed) Dependency (individual and mode) grids were used to reveal and manipulate 11 teachers' resources and then to monitor how their group levels of stress were affected. Although the study reflected an idiographic approach rather than a substantive pattern, stress was reduced for the highly stressed, maintained for the moderately stressed and increased for the low stressed. Since using a not coping rather than a coping perspective characterised the distressed group before the intervention, teachers may need to emphasise a more affirmative stance. Once teachers establish what they construe as stressful and what support they can use, they are in a more informed position to engage in stress management or maintenance.

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