Dear Samta,

Sounds like a very worthwhile project.

Devi's suggestions (are as usual) very useful and spot-on!

May also suggest that you pilot test your grid design "several times" with some
colleagues before diving straight into it after 1 or 2 practice runs with "real
managers".

Also, try your best to "mentally prepare" your respondents for the type of
interview you'll be administering to them. It would be nice (and please consider
doing this in your pre-pilot and pilot test interviews) to send them the overall
structure of your interview, purpose etc... in one page, say, a week before
hand.

At the interview, go through this outline with them again. My own past
experience in administering the grid technique with practicing managers is that
they find the transition into doing the actual grid interview more manageable. I
normally have 6 parts to this framework:

1. overview of purpose of interview
2. show them those element cards one by one
3. with each card, ask them to give you a BRIEF account of that person (if it is
people you're using as elements; or the other options Devi rightly suggested to
you). I find this part of the overall interview MOST helpful in PREPARING the
subject for what is ahead in in the interview
4. then I'd place all the element cards again on the table; this time, lined up
in rows of three (and ask them to point out 4-5 that are not too good - assuming
you'll be shortlisting 9 elements). If you want to save extra time, have already
printed out - all your elements laid out in 1-A4 page and get them to cross-out
the bad ones........in effect, you can now see that your list of elements
consist of some good and some not so good)
5. Then in step 5, I inform them that I will now do a quick demonstration of how
the grid technique work..........use the "CAR + HORSE + TRAIN" example. You do
the first demonstration, and provide one construct.........then get them to
generate 2-3 constructs of their own to give them a feel of the grid technique
6. Once they feel comfortable with it, I now show them the element cards (that
are the focus of your study) 3 at a time (triads)........and ask them to focus
their responses based on "...in terms of ..............." (eg: ".......in terms
of how well or how not well they do their job")

It's an amazing technique when done right; and the amount of rich data you can
get out of it is definately worth the effort.

Good luck Samta,
kindly,
robert


> to every body...
>
> i m an HR MBA student,currently doing my summer training in India. my
> project is competeny mapping...where i ve to develop competencies
> required for my organisatiion. it would involve conducting
> questionaires with the employees to understand what skills are
> important for there jobs. could u please suggest me if Repertory grid
> interview tecnique shall help me with my project and if yes how, and
> where can i read more about this technique.
>
> thanks
>
> samta
>
>
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