Kanonische diskriminant-analyse, ofwel : de toepassing van de multivariate procedures voor analyse op het meso-niveau

Samenvatting

Two examples are offered of the use of canonical discriminant analysis (cda) in organizational research. The first is a scaling problem. If the items of the likert-type scale refer partly to actual observations of their own situation of a group ('experiences') and partly to a more generalized evaluation, relatively independent of their group-membership, the cda procedure untangles both types of items, and reveals the specificity of group styles and cultures. The 2nd case deals with a general problem of comparative organizational analysis. The problem is how to deal with survey data that are to be related to institutional data, to test hypotheses on the mesolevel. With the help of cda it becomes possible to construct organizational measures derived from groups of individual r's, without falling into the atomistic aggregative methods trap. In many cases cda is a more meaningful instrument in organizational research than the more popular factor analyses. 1 table, appendix. AA