Longitudinal Modelling in Organizational Research: A Tutorial of Two Analytical Approaches

Collecting and analysing longitudinal data has continuously been recommended in organizational research to help researchers gain better understandings about the phenomenon of change, which often relates to certain research questions such as how one variable itself changes over time, how the change of one variable influences the change of another variable, and so forth. Over the past decades, researchers from different disciplines have developed various modelling techniques for analysing longitudinal data, which provided us with great flexibility in choosing the appropriate analytical approaches. In this workshop, the presenter will review two commonly used longitudinal modelling approaches in organizational research, the multi-level modelling (MLM) approach and the latent growth modelling (LGM) approach, and present a step-by-step demonstration on how to use these two approaches to analyse a sample longitudinal dataset. In the first part of the workshop, through a quick review of several examples from existing publications, the presenter will explain…