Tuesday, 10 July 2018

How to refine a management-concerns diagram: an illustration

How to refine a management-concerns diagram in the Agile Literature Review Approach (ALRA): an illustration

[The core-focus of the research project is on staff turnover and team leadership.]


Diagram 1: A management-concerns diagram [level 0] before refinement


After refinement, Diagram 1 becomes Diagram 2.


Diagram 2: A management-concerns diagram [level 0] after refinement




The arrows with +/- signs are features of cognitive mapping; they are adopted here in the refined management-concerns diagram.

Lastly, the core-focus of management concerns is identified in Diagram 2 on "Increase staff turnover" and "Team leadership quality"; this is shown in Diagram 3 as follows:

Diagram 3A management-concerns diagram [level 0] after refinement, with the core management concerns to be responded to identified


Specifically, one can say that the core focus is on the two inter-related management concerns on the problematic status of staff turnover and team leadership quality at company under examination.
Class discussion:
Question 1: What refinements have been made on Diagram 1?
Question 2: Is Diagram 3 more useful to provide justification for a dissertation project to study staff turnover and team leadership of the company under review? Why and how?

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