Research Project Goodies
Summary Results | Incentives | Free software | Communicatin Workflow DataSummary Results
You get personal access to your survey results and the ability to compare your responses with your company average.
You get both overview and detail analysis of survey responses:
Incentives
By finishing stage 1, you get within 24 hours you will have a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate as a reward for completing the survey.
In stage 2, you get a $100
Amazon gift certificate just for permission to observe the mail
server (and you don’t have to do anything!). Next, you will automatically
be registrered in a drawing of survey participants that remain in the study
through the 2nd stage. A randomly selected winner in each firm will receive
$1,000 with odds of winning roughly
between 1/20 and 1/60. The $1000 is only available to people who stay in for
stage 2.
Free Software
Stage 2 software is a great utility to evaluate communication patterns in your workflow. This software helps you visualize your contact network. It shows, for example, how many people try to reach you, how much traffic they generate, and where they're located. It will also animate these changes over time.
A brief overview of software features and functionality..
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Communication Workflow Data
After stage 2, we will provide valuable analysis about how you and your company communicate work related information. All information is kept secure and private to each participant as reviewed by the Human Subjects Board at the University of Michigan.
The university Human Subjects board has reviewed this research for ethical conduct, risk, and invasion of privacy and found that it presents little or no danger beyond that already present in the workplace.
Datapoints you will get (your responses, company average)
- total e-mail received:
- total e-mail sent:
- percent responded to:
- percent recipients responded to:
- avg delay in response:
- avg delay in recipient response:
- centrality within a network:
- percent internal communication:
- percent external communication:
- average number of different contacts:
- stability of network contacts:
- tendency to batch or continuous response:
- distance from high information nodes:
More...
If there is any additional feedback you would like to see, please do request
it. We cannot promise that all such requests will be honored but we will
make a sincere effort to provide as many as possible.
Remember...
No one else at your company will have access to your profile. Any feedback
is strictly for your benefit. For research purposes, we're only interested
in the aggregate data patterns.
