Studying flow in knowledge work by Prof.Ryan Quinn |
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Flow is a subjective experience. As such the study of flow present two challenges.First, it is not currently possible to measure subjective experiences directly. We can not truly know another person’s subjective experiences. The second challenge that the subjective nature of flow presents to my research is the impossibility of testing a causal model with data that I collected on flow elements concurrently. Because I collected data on all of the elements of people’s flow experiences at the same time, I cannot make any strong claims about causality.
Ryan Quinn is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior Olin School of Business Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO
63130-4899Washington
However I can use survey data(1) to establish that people do experience the flow elements in their work(acknowledging the imperfect measurement discussed above(2) to rule out as unlikely any relationships that are proposed in the literature and are not supported by my anlysis and(3) tp provide support for the plausability of teh proposed relationships taht are supported by this research. These three objectives, as well as desribing flow in knowledge work parctices are the goals of my empirical work
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