Brenton Wiernik, a doctoral student in industrial and organisational psychology at the University of Minnesota, USA, visited the Department of Human Resource Management in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences from 16 June to 3 July 2015. Brenton is working with the Department on a number of projects, including the Green Project, which focuses on green behaviour in the workplace.
During his visit he presented a comprehensive three-day meta-analysis workshop to various members of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Meta-analysis may be described as an objective and quantitative methodology for synthesising previous studies and research on a particular topic into an overall finding. Meta-analysis thus allows one to compare or combine results across a set of similar studies. It is a powerful tool to pool multiple studies together and make sound conclusive statements about the relationships investigated by several authors.
Individuals who attended the workshop gained confidence in and valuable knowledge of how to conduct a meta-analysis. The workshop provided the attendees with a sound basic introduction to meta-analysis, with useful sources to build on this discipline in future. Attendees received a thorough explanation of the statistics employed in meta-analysis, a skill many of them will now be able to explore. Even though time might have been limited during the workshop, many of the attendees now have a thorough framework of how meta-analysis is conducted.
Delegates from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences who attended the meta-analysis workshop.
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