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RESEARCH ON CONSULTING — WITH, FOR OR AGAINST PRACTICE?
criteria are clear can future research efforts be attuned to them and the research
coordinated to meet the demands of coaching practitioners.
INCENTIVES AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA
FOR PARTICIPATING IN COACHING RESEARCH
For this reason, an on-going study asks coaching practitioners for their attitudes
(response rate to date 58%, N=50) by means of an online questionnaire. For
this article, we single out two key questions which the coaches could answer
using a comments field:
¢ Inthe opinion of the coaches, what preconditions have to be met in order
for them to participate in a coaching study?
+ What would be exclusion criteria for participation?
So on one hand, coaches were asked what would positively influence them
to participate in coaching research (preconditions, incentives) and on the
other hand, they were invited to give reasons why they would decide not to
participate (exclusion criteria). The answers received were evaluated by means
of content analysis". À category-based system was developed from the answers
wherein the individual answers were allocated to the corresponding category
and the allocation confirmed by means of communicative validation within
the research teams.
In total, 105 statements relating to preconditions for participating and 67
statements relating to exclusion criteria could be identified from the responses.
From both question (incentives and exclusion criteria), an overall view revealed
a similar structure to the answers. Four overarching themes could be detected:
1. Statements by the coaching practitioners relating to the research concept
2. Statements relating to the effort required and potential (financial)
compensation
3. Questions as to what extent the interests of the coaches themselves and of
their clients would be taken into account in the research process
4. Statements about the working relationship between researchers and
practitioners
A comparison of these answers in accordance with the four themes illustrates
similarities and differences in regard to the incentives and exclusion criteria:
13 P. Mayring, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse. Grundlagen und Techniken, 11. ed. vol., Weinheim,
Beltz, 2010.; M. Schreier, Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice, London, Sage, 2012.