Rooke, J D (1997) Developing a more empirical approach to culture, attitude and motivation in construction management research: a critique and a proposal. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(2), pp. 45-55. ISSN 1358-9180
Abstract
The problem of achieving adequate empirical accounts of culture, motivation and attitudes in construction management research is addressed. The usual association of adequacy with objectivity, causality and quantification is criticized and it is suggested that the concept of Verstehen provides an alternative guide to study. Within this conception, explanations are not primarily causal in form, but concerned with the investigation and explication of meaning. Criteria developed within the discipline of ethnomethodology (EM) and founded in the logic of Verstehen are offered as alternative standards of rigorous analysis. These consist in a requirement to remain faithful to the empirical phenomenon under study and to eschew speculation and ad hoc abstraction.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | culture, ethnomethodology, motivation, research method, paradigm |
| Index terms: | meaning, paradigm, critique, ethnomethodology, quantification, motivation, investigation, proposal, management research |
| Subjects: | project planning, sociology, evaluation and assessment methods, research design and methodology, data collection methods, psychology, measurement and scaling, research methods, education and knowledge transfer |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Project Management, Human Resources |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 CTA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here