oa Gedrag & Organisatie door de jaren heen: een methodologische rondleiding

Gedrag & Organisatie through the years: What methodological tools do researchers in I/O psychology employ?

Toon Taris, Jan de Jonge & Jan Fekke Ybema, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 18, February 2005, nr. 1, pp. 47-57

The present study examines to what extent methodological innovations disseminate to researchers in I/O psychology. First we examined which issues are discussed in the methodological chapters of a variety of introductory and advanced textbooks in the field of I/O psychology. Based on this inventory, we content-analyzed 67 empirical articles that appeared in the Dutch journal Gedrag & Organisatie, in 1990/1991 and 2002/2003. The results show that methodological innovations with regard to the measurement of concepts and design of studies are largely absent. However, researchers seem more open to innovations with regard to analysis of their data. It is concluded that it is desirable that I/O researchers become (re)acquainted with relevant methodological developments.