Assessing organizational significance demands that we do more than mechanically transfer f-tests and coefficient estimates from a statistical package output into our papers. It requires that we first calculate effect sizes, and then take into account the nature of the phenomena that we study and the context of the samples tiiat we examine in order to assess their importance. It requires judgment, interpretation, deliberation and care. A benefit of assessing organizational significance is that it requires that we 'take' our empirical estimates back to the phenomena that we study. Given the nature of what we study, we cannot divorce our statistical analyses from the context that generates them. Tightening this linkage will hopefully have the desired impact that we can better talk to each other and to managers about the relevance of our research.
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