Appendix: Empirically Oriented Structures

As a result of the Workshop with Everbright Bank, Suzhou, China (2002) the following Mindmaps resulted.

The following matrix is a form of the OP matrix given in Table 6.4 and formulated with a numbering system in Table 7.2, and which has been formulated into a set of queries that relate to bank fitness measuring instruments.

The measuring instrument chosen was a highly structured questionnaire OP. The Questionnaire (OPQ) was chosen for reasons: (i) it covers a broad range of desirable OP; (ii) it is relatively established so that it is possible to refer comparatively to outcomes.

The results of the study would provide information on the applicability of the survey questionnaire to the staff of SOCBs in China, and help the researcher to decide whether the same methods might be used for the second step of the secondary study. It would also help to decide which parts of the questionnaires would be used for future investigation and which parts of the content were non-applicable and would be left out. It was also hoped that the preliminary study would bring to light some culture-specific features of the change problems in China, and thus provide ideas for further research.