title: Are We All in the Same Boat? The Role of Perceptual Distance in Organizational Health Interventions.
abstract: The study investigates how agreement between leaders' and their team's perceptions influence intervention outcomes in a leadership-training intervention aimed at improving organizational learning. Agreement, i.e. perceptual distance was calculated for the organizational learning dimensions at baseline. Changes in the dimensions from pre-intervention to post-intervention were evaluated using polynomial regression analysis with response surface analysis. The general pattern of the results indicated that the organizational learning improved when leaders and their teams agreed on the level of organizational learning prior to the intervention. The improvement was greatest when the leader's and the team's perceptions at baseline were aligned and high rather than aligned and low. The least beneficial scenario was when the leader's perceptions were higher than the team's perceptions. These results give insights into the importance of comparing leaders' and their team's perceptions in intervention research. Polynomial regression analyses with response surface methodology allow three-dimensional examination of relationship between two predictor variables and an outcome. This contributes with knowledge on how combination of predictor variables may affect outcome and allows studies of potential non-linearity relating to the outcome. Future studies could use these methods in process evaluation of interventions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors: Procome research group; Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Henna.hasson@ki.se.|Centre for Epidemiology and Community Medicine (CES), Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden. Henna.hasson@ki.se.
authors: Henna
authors: H
authors: Hasson
authors: Procome research group; Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.|Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Ulrica
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4771-8349
authors: U
authors: von Thiele Schwarz
authors: Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
authors: Karina
authors: K
authors: Nielsen
authors: Procome research group; Medical Management Centre, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.|Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
authors: Susanne
authors: S
authors: Tafvelin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D012938:Social Perception
keywords: leader-team agreement; leadership training; organizational learning; shared perceptions