Wonderment 13-21

  1.  I wonder how to analyze organizational culture as it relates to bias. There are tools to measure bias, but they aren’t generally shared with others and are for personal use. So how do you measure bias in a culture as a whole?
  2.  I wonder how to measure perceptions of non-physician faculty at a medical school regarding their sense of value? It seems that any questions one would ask would lead the survey participant in some way. 
  3. I wonder if interventions work on reducing gender discrimination. Gains have happened but are they because of interventional changes or wholesale cultural changes.
  4.   I wonder how emotional intelligence is best learned.
  5.  I wonder why toxic administrators aren’t recognized and removed more frequently.
  6. I wonder if a change in one key leadership role is enough to change an entire institutional culture. How many/what does it take?
  7.  I wonder how anxiety and depression interact in the formation of a scholarly (or professional) identity?
  8.  I wonder if a lack of available legal representation able to act against educational institutions contributes to the high level of discrimination found in academia. There are very few lawyers who handle employment law from the employee side and fewer still who are willing to take on a university.
  9. I wonder if I’ll ever “get” qualitative research. Every time I think I kind of have a hold of it and an idea of how I would use it, I read something else and my grasp on it slips away again.

Location: Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Comments

  1. NateWoodSeptember 16, 2021 at 3:40 PM

    Hi Becky. I chuckled a bit when I got to your question about whether you will ever "get" qualitative research, because I had already noticed the number of times the word "measure" (or a closely related concept) appeared in your other wonderments. Why do you think measurement is so prominent in the questions you are asking? Perhaps a counter-example might spur some thoughts along these lines, so here is a question to ponder: how do you know you love your children? You clearly do. And I suspect you can confidently say that you do (I also suspect they can confidently say that you love them). But I am guessing you probably do not have an instrument you use to measure it. So how do you (and they) know?

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