Taylor: An incredibly relevant and important area of study, especially in today's reality!! As you likely used in your justification, the changing dynamics of higher education continues to drastically challenge student services (student affairs, student success, etc.--which ever title is privileged at specific institutions). As you recognize, the entire area of study is extremely complex. Because individuals needs (think individual interpersonal needs) vary, an interesting approach for further research might include a two-part study: 1) identifying specific employee interpersonal needs, 2) surveying employees before and after supervisors attend CPT training. I also am intrigued also by your idea to examine other divisions within a university setting. For example, (having spent nearly 30 years at a small private college) the stressors student affairs employees experience is considerably different than the stressors business services employees or institutional advancement employees experience. Diving deeper into the question whether the division one works in matters has particular interest to me first, in terms of knowing, and second, whether different strategies appear essential. [This is Mary Gill, Director of M.A. in Org Leadership at Buena Vista University]
Taylor, this is an excellent project and I appreciate Dr. Mary Gill's (PhD graduate of our department) comments about the application to high education. At a time in which people are much better blasting their perspective rather than listening to the perspectives of others, I am especially interested that perspective taking is correlated with communication competence. We are so grateful for the work that you have done with your Capstone professors this semester; you hung in there and finished up your project. Wishing you all the best as you graduating this semester. Congratulations and please keep in touch with us, you are always a CommHusker! Dr. Dawn O. Braithwaite, Department Chair, Communication Studies
Taylor - this is a really great topic that spans across every aspect of life, actually! I have spent over 25 years in corporate management roles across the financial services and tech industries, and this set of concepts is so incredibly important for any person in a supervisory role to understand and get "right" for the betterment of their employees. I noticed that your result for hypothesis 2 referenced job satisfaction, and not stress level of the employee, and I wondered if perhaps that was just a typo? In general, it would be fantastic if you could find a small amount of real estate on your summary poster to dive a bit deeper on H2, providing some data on what external influencers exist that can impact an employee that fall outside of the employee/supervisor communication realm. Just a thought for you. I firmly believe as you move into the next phase of your life, you'll be able to look back on this research you've done and validate your findings over and over! Great work...
I want to echo Lisa's comments about wanting more information about hypothesis 2. I would like to see your interpretation of this finding. Why do you think it is that CPT is not linked to stress levels? Maybe there are other aspects of well-being besides stress that would have been significantly correlated with CPT. It was an interesting study to read. Well done!
Taylor, I love your focus on communicated perspective taking in the workplace and your findings provide support for the importance of teaching and learning specific behaviors (CPT) that offer a clear person-centered communication style in a workplace environment. CPT is a a method of creating space for dialogue that can be transformative--it's one thing to create the space--a difficult task in today's social context--it's another to productively leverage that space as an organization. I would love to see how CPT relates to the establishment of a culture of innovation in an organization.
Hi Taylor, I used to TA for this course in 2013 & 2014 and advised the quantitative and qualitative projects. Bravo with this comprehensive and well-executed project. Completing a human subjects study is difficult, period, but trying to do it in a semester is daunting. And you got IRB approval too!
This study and its poster presentation would go toe-to-toe with any graduate student submission to a conference. In fact, I hope you plan to submit this work to a future conference like the Central States Communication Association. GBR! Sara Baker Bailey c/o 2014
Taylor: An incredibly relevant and important area of study, especially in today's reality!! As you likely used in your justification, the changing dynamics of higher education continues to drastically challenge student services (student affairs, student success, etc.--which ever title is privileged at specific institutions). As you recognize, the entire area of study is extremely complex. Because individuals needs (think individual interpersonal needs) vary, an interesting approach for further research might include a two-part study: 1) identifying specific employee interpersonal needs, 2) surveying employees before and after supervisors attend CPT training. I also am intrigued also by your idea to examine other divisions within a university setting. For example, (having spent nearly 30 years at a small private college) the stressors student affairs employees experience is considerably different than the stressors business services employees or institutional advancement employees experience. Diving deeper into the question whether the division one works in matters has particular interest to me first, in terms of knowing, and second, whether different strategies appear essential. [This is Mary Gill, Director of M.A. in Org Leadership at Buena Vista University]
ReplyDeleteTaylor, this is an excellent project and I appreciate Dr. Mary Gill's (PhD graduate of our department) comments about the application to high education. At a time in which people are much better blasting their perspective rather than listening to the perspectives of others, I am especially interested that perspective taking is correlated with communication competence. We are so grateful for the work that you have done with your Capstone professors this semester; you hung in there and finished up your project. Wishing you all the best as you graduating this semester. Congratulations and please keep in touch with us, you are always a CommHusker! Dr. Dawn O. Braithwaite, Department Chair, Communication Studies
ReplyDeleteTaylor - this is a really great topic that spans across every aspect of life, actually! I have spent over 25 years in corporate management roles across the financial services and tech industries, and this set of concepts is so incredibly important for any person in a supervisory role to understand and get "right" for the betterment of their employees. I noticed that your result for hypothesis 2 referenced job satisfaction, and not stress level of the employee, and I wondered if perhaps that was just a typo? In general, it would be fantastic if you could find a small amount of real estate on your summary poster to dive a bit deeper on H2, providing some data on what external influencers exist that can impact an employee that fall outside of the employee/supervisor communication realm. Just a thought for you. I firmly believe as you move into the next phase of your life, you'll be able to look back on this research you've done and validate your findings over and over! Great work...
ReplyDeleteI want to echo Lisa's comments about wanting more information about hypothesis 2. I would like to see your interpretation of this finding. Why do you think it is that CPT is not linked to stress levels? Maybe there are other aspects of well-being besides stress that would have been significantly correlated with CPT. It was an interesting study to read. Well done!
DeleteTaylor, I love your focus on communicated perspective taking in the workplace and your findings provide support for the importance of teaching and learning specific behaviors (CPT) that offer a clear person-centered communication style in a workplace environment. CPT is a a method of creating space for dialogue that can be transformative--it's one thing to create the space--a difficult task in today's social context--it's another to productively leverage that space as an organization. I would love to see how CPT relates to the establishment of a culture of innovation in an organization.
ReplyDeleteHi Taylor,
ReplyDeleteI used to TA for this course in 2013 & 2014 and advised the quantitative and qualitative projects. Bravo with this comprehensive and well-executed project. Completing a human subjects study is difficult, period, but trying to do it in a semester is daunting. And you got IRB approval too!
This study and its poster presentation would go toe-to-toe with any graduate student submission to a conference. In fact, I hope you plan to submit this work to a future conference like the Central States Communication Association.
GBR!
Sara Baker Bailey
c/o 2014