TY - JOUR
T1 - Just the Two of Us
T2 - Misalignment of Theory and Methods in Examining Dyadic Phenomena
AU - Krasikova, Dina V.
AU - Lebreton, James Marshall
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Many organizational phenomena such as leader-member exchange, mentoring, coaching, interpersonal conflict and cooperation, negotiation, performance appraisal, and the employment interview involve inherently dyadic relationships and interactions. Even when theories explicitly acknowledge the dyadic nature of such phenomena, it is not uncommon to observe a disconnection or misalignment between the level of theory and method. Our purpose in the current paper is to discuss how organizational scholars might better align these components of their research endeavors. We discuss how recent developments involving the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) and reciprocal one-with-many (OWM) models are applicable to studying dyadic phenomena in organizations. The emphasis is on preanalytic considerations associated with collecting and organizing reciprocal dyadic data, types of research questions that APIM and reciprocalOWMmodels can help answer, and specific analytic techniques involved in testing dyadic hypotheses.
AB - Many organizational phenomena such as leader-member exchange, mentoring, coaching, interpersonal conflict and cooperation, negotiation, performance appraisal, and the employment interview involve inherently dyadic relationships and interactions. Even when theories explicitly acknowledge the dyadic nature of such phenomena, it is not uncommon to observe a disconnection or misalignment between the level of theory and method. Our purpose in the current paper is to discuss how organizational scholars might better align these components of their research endeavors. We discuss how recent developments involving the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) and reciprocal one-with-many (OWM) models are applicable to studying dyadic phenomena in organizations. The emphasis is on preanalytic considerations associated with collecting and organizing reciprocal dyadic data, types of research questions that APIM and reciprocalOWMmodels can help answer, and specific analytic techniques involved in testing dyadic hypotheses.
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U2 - 10.1037/a0027962
DO - 10.1037/a0027962
M3 - Article
C2 - 22486363
AN - SCOPUS:84868671857
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 97
SP - 739
EP - 757
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 4
ER -