An unexpectedly busy weekend and a very full week. It is Sunday night and I have been working on data analysis all day!! Granted, I did take a few breaks to make dinner, get groceries and spend an hour at the coffee shop reading the paper. I have put in a good 7 hours today, on top of a 5 hour library stint on Saturday, and about 5 hours during the week. The good news is that I have completed a solid high level analysis of the mean results and the overall findings mirror the literature. The women in my study are exhibiting more transformational leadership than their male counterparts and achieving more overall ROI than their male counterparts.
It took a long time to get to the findings. I completely underestimated the complexity of the data because there are multiple raters for each leader, but the number varies. This made my EXCEL analysis more time-consuming that it needed to be. Thank goodness that I was able to ask my partner a few questions at key moments. His advice definitely saved me some times and I now understand the value of MACROS and Pivot Tables. I didn’t use them today but I will need to learn these functions for my thesis. Also need to explore SPSS as an option.
I am zonked so I am going to keep this post short. Overall, I spent a good part of the week on administration associated with the 360 survey and then setting up the logistics for the interviews. I will be doing two interviews tomorrow and should get the transcripts on Tuesday.
My pace is accelerated because I have committed to sending a draft of this paper to my supervisor tomorrow. This means that I will be doing another stint tomorrow after work. I need to do three things. First, clean the paper up a bit. Second, add the findings/observations from the interviews. Third, write up the “implications for my thesis” section. I am hoping that 3 hours will suffice.
As a final note, it may sound nerdy but I really enjoyed the day. It is a very cool feeling to analyze your own research data!!