Survey Key Driver Analysis: Perhaps the Right Question Is, "Are We There Yet?"
INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY-PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Authors: Klein, Cameron; Synovec, Rob; Zhang, Haiyan; Lovato, Chris; Howes, John; Feinzig, Sheri
Abstract
In their focal article, Cucina, Walmsley, Gast, Martin, and Curtin (2017) raise an important and timely issue, but go too far in arguing that practitioners should abandon survey key driver analysis (SKDA) altogether. There are many valuable benefits to using SKDA, and rather than discontinuing the practice entirely, we suggest that a better approach is to focus on ways to make it even more valuable to organizations. It is true that this area is in need of further research, but instead of asking whether we are driving down the right road, perhaps the right question is, "Are we there yet?" We will organize our commentary into three sections. First, we provide a short summary of concerns with the primary study sample and conclusions. Second, we dig into the purported methodological issues with SKDA. Finally, we will summarize the reasons why we believe the focal article overstates the flaws of SKDA, and instead we put forth an argument for the practical utility and benefit of such analyses.
SPIRIT READINGS: SPECTRAL HERMENEUTICS IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH GAST OF GY
PRETERNATURE-CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES ON THE PRETERNATURAL
Authors: Zawacki, Alexander J.
Abstract
The Middle English Gast of Gy is intimately concerned with the hermeneutic process. Irruptions of the preternatural are destabilizing events that threaten Church authority and so demand an interpretive response. The clerics in the poem serve as first -contact exegetes. They fulfill a vital, sacral function as interpreters of texts and phenomena, and as mediators between the mundane and the otherworldly. Hermes, a liminal god with dominion over both ghosts and the act of speech, is here deployed as a lens through which to view these separate duties and bring them together under a coherent conceptual heading. Gy then serves as an effective case study in how Church control is established over a disruptive paranormal event, how clerics in the field work at the discernment of spirits, and how orthodox understandings of the supernatural are formulated and propagated through dialogue and writing.