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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Many big organizations measures KPI and economic benefits but not behaviors. The Performance Culture Model measures all the three, in order to survive Organization needs to apply changes, to achieve different organizational culture and different results must sustain changing behaviors
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Have you thought about numbers and quantitive approach to measure it?

I was telling Sante this morning, that my academic research for PhD, 8 years ago, which I never had the chance to do, It was about how to convert qualitative activities to quantitive numbers in order to calculate the return on investment from investing in activities.

Behaviour could be an ideal example of qualitative aspect which can be translated to numbers and quantitive.
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
However, the Qualitative approach to measurement:

What actually constitutes an appropriate measure?

Three criteria to start with when it comes to behaviour measurement
1. Objectivity
2. Reliability
3. Validity

So, The behaviour change objective and the following options related to the objective:
Unreliable & invalid, Unreliable & valid, reliable & Invalid and reliable & Valid.

If you have identified measures that fulfil objectivity, reliability and validity criteria at the same time, you are on the right track to generate outcomes that will push beyond the frontiers of our existing knowledge.

Moving Quantitive; in a simple method, you can give a score and weight for the three criteria and then you will end up with a nice chart, it will be very similar to Quantitive risk but three dimensions.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
May 11, 2018 9:46 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Kevin, Thanks for taking time to reply to this, actually you've many open questions which require a white paper on performance culture, however to be quick here human behavior is guided by three kinds of considerations:
beliefs about the likely consequences of the behavior (behavioral beliefs), beliefs about the normative expectations of others (normative beliefs), and beliefs about the presence of factors that may facilitate or impede performance of the behavior (control beliefs). In their respective aggregates, behavioral beliefs produce a favorable or unfavorable
attitude toward the behavior; normative beliefs result in perceived social pressure or subjective norm; and control beliefs give rise to
perceived behavioral control.

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ecstatic = 1, Happy = 2, Content = 3.......Very Mad = 8, Extremely Mad = 9, Homicidal = 10. Something like that? ;-)
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May 11, 2018 9:55 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Sante, you almost there

It depends on what questionnaire you design with many questions then number start from 1 to 7 like in the example of Icek Ajzen
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Sonali Malu Maharashtra, India
I have seen organizations have questions about attitude, respect, politeness, involved in conflicts? etc. in review cycle.
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May 11, 2018 9:57 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Sonali, very true few organizations they apply a nice performance culture maturity model.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Interesting. I have actually seen the opposite, where the ignorance of negative behaviors was left alone, allowed to flourish, and even rewarded. As a result, the environment was toxic, maturity was stifled, and the organization lost some good people.

Even with the yearly reviews, quantifiable behavior is seemingly not measured. I am aware of some organizations that interview a set of coworkers for what I'd assume is a mix of work ethics and insight to 'daily-life'.
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May 11, 2018 9:59 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Andrew, yes it depends on overall culture of the organization, it is true this topic needs more research
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Riyadh -

I've never quantitatively measured behaviors but the impact of behaviors can be measured through tools like team or stakeholder satisfaction surveys.

Kiron
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May 11, 2018 10:04 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron,
In MBOS system we use performance valuation which contains many questions about attitude--overall numbers and % will form to evaluate the final result.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
We do but as Kiron said, I never too done it quantitatively.
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May 11, 2018 10:06 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Rami,

It is little tricky with numbers
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
May 11, 2018 3:53 AM
Replying to Kevin Drake
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However, the Qualitative approach to measurement:

What actually constitutes an appropriate measure?

Three criteria to start with when it comes to behaviour measurement
1. Objectivity
2. Reliability
3. Validity

So, The behaviour change objective and the following options related to the objective:
Unreliable & invalid, Unreliable & valid, reliable & Invalid and reliable & Valid.

If you have identified measures that fulfil objectivity, reliability and validity criteria at the same time, you are on the right track to generate outcomes that will push beyond the frontiers of our existing knowledge.

Moving Quantitive; in a simple method, you can give a score and weight for the three criteria and then you will end up with a nice chart, it will be very similar to Quantitive risk but three dimensions.
Kevin, Thanks for taking time to reply to this, actually you've many open questions which require a white paper on performance culture, however to be quick here human behavior is guided by three kinds of considerations:
beliefs about the likely consequences of the behavior (behavioral beliefs), beliefs about the normative expectations of others (normative beliefs), and beliefs about the presence of factors that may facilitate or impede performance of the behavior (control beliefs). In their respective aggregates, behavioral beliefs produce a favorable or unfavorable
attitude toward the behavior; normative beliefs result in perceived social pressure or subjective norm; and control beliefs give rise to
perceived behavioral control.

.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
May 11, 2018 4:53 AM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Ecstatic = 1, Happy = 2, Content = 3.......Very Mad = 8, Extremely Mad = 9, Homicidal = 10. Something like that? ;-)
Sante, you almost there

It depends on what questionnaire you design with many questions then number start from 1 to 7 like in the example of Icek Ajzen
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
May 11, 2018 5:13 AM
Replying to Sonali Malu
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I have seen organizations have questions about attitude, respect, politeness, involved in conflicts? etc. in review cycle.
Sonali, very true few organizations they apply a nice performance culture maturity model.
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