Business Applications of Repertory Grid
Chapter 7. Before you begin

The material originally contained in `Business Applications of Repertory Grid Chapter 7. Before you begin' is outdated and no longer available here.

Most of the original material is provided elsewhere on the site and the following links, especially, may be of interest.

• On Research Design, Purpose, and Analysis. The Repertory Grid interview involves using interviewees' valuable time and resources and considerable introspection which deserves the respect and integrity shown by good research design.
• Determining Organizational Culture. Here we show how to use repertory grid to capture a representation of an organization's culture or corporate culture - the organization's construct system - in the context of effectiveness. Then you will see an overview on how to analyse that data and, from that, develop a set of competencies that match the organization's strategic direction.
• Hints in Choosing Elements. Choosing elements is an absolutely fundamental skill for repertory grid interview practitioners: get it wrong, and the rest of the process will never right itself.
• Alternative Strategies for Construct Elicitation. Simplified or alternative strategies for construct elicitation using Repertory Grid. How to define a useful construct. Alternatives for achieving a good set of constructs.
• The Importance of Piloting Repertory Grid Interview Sessions. Piloting sessions is important to the success of a repertory grid interview project, whether using grid software or not.
• Teaching and Learning the Repertory Grid Interview. The processes that happen when someone is learning Repertory Grid interviewing are related to administration, analysis, and applications.
• Feedback in the Repertory Grid Interview. In good Grid feedback the principle is for the interviewer to act, as much as possible, as a skilled mirror, rather than the interviewer offering an interpretation or judgment.
• Repertory Grid is a Conversation. Grid is a structured conversation between two people in which Grid provides the methodology for constructive listening as they both explore an issue of common concern.
• On the Importance of the Contrast Pole. If you don’t elicit the contrast pole from the interviewee, you are left to infer it - and it could be dead wrong.
• On Propositional Constructs. One particular piece of jargon is worth exploring - that’s the question of what is meant by the term ‘propositional’ construct.

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