TECHNIQUE FOR ANALYZING DATA

• Content Analysis


  A popular technique for assessing qualitative data, especially interview data, which attempts to summarize comments into meaningful categories
• Responses 


  are read to determine if answers are recurring
• Themes 


  are generated that capture recurring comments
• Categories 


  with the most responses represent those themes that are most often mentioned.
• Force-Field Analysis


  Derived from Kurt Lewin’s three-step model of change. This method organizes information pertaining to organizational change into two major categories:
• Stream Analysis


  This method is based on pictorially representing organizational problems on a chart
• Stream Diagnostic Chart 


  is divided into columns (streams), one for each organizational dimension considered key by the user of the chart
• Quantitative Tools


  Statistical processes, Means, standard deviations, and frequency distributions, scattergrams, and correlation coefficients, and difference tests