Multilevel research designs

Jonas W. B. Lang and Paul D. Bliese

Chapter 15 in How to Conduct and Publish High-Quality Research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, 2025, pp 220-243 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Industrial and organizational psychologists are frequently confronted with multi-level research questions. Many organizations have a clearly defined hierarchical structure with lower-level entities like individuals, teams, groups, departments, or branches nested in higher-level units like teams, groups, departments, branches, or companies. A challenge for researchers interested in using data with this structure is that a variety of closely related versions of basic multilevel analyses exists, yet these analyses differ in how they conceptualize the role of the levels and the degree to which predictors and criteria are latent. The aim of this chapter is to (1) provide an overview of basic multilevel approaches; (2) describe how these approaches are related, and (3) convey our experiences dealing with typical challenges in publishing, reviewing, and editing multilevel research. We also provide R code to run analyses on a typical organizational dataset included in a widely available R package so readers can rerun the analyses themselves and compare the results.

Keywords: Multilevel modeling; Data analysis; Research design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035307739
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