Design Sensitivity and Estimability of Cross-Level Burnout Analytics for Software Teams: A Reproducible Simulation Study
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摘要
Decision-support systems that relate team climate to employee strain increasingly specify cross-level models in which a team-level managerial attribute conditions an employee-level pathway. It is not known whether such models can be estimated at the team levels that software organisations have, and there have been reported failures to estimate the model, which are blamed on the model design. This paper outlines a reference architecture with privacy constraints for such analytics and sets the operating characteristics of its estimand via simulation. 1,000 replications were generated per cell, using a deterministic generator, and each construct was measured using ordinal items, thus introducing measurement error as the instrument design suggests, in seven team counts and three effect conditions. Three results follow. With few clusters, the cluster-robust interaction test is anti-conservative, in that it rejects at 0.107 with 30 teams and 0.067 with 60 teams, when the nominal value is 0.05. While the employee-level mediation paths are > 0.99 power at 60 teams, power for a small interaction is 0.325 at 60 teams and 0.810 at 250 teams. The reported singular-matrix failures for mixed-effects fits of this model are not necessarily due to the non-identifiability of the model, but rather to the specific solver. A confirmatory cohort of 250 development teams (100 disjoint held-out teams) reproduces the predicted behavior end to end. The archive is accompanied by all quantities being regenerated.
关键词
Decision support systems,Design of experiments,Hierarchical models,Psychological safety,Reproducibility,Simulation,Software engineering management,Statistical power
稿件作者
Muthukumaran M
G.T.N. Arts College
Shahin A
Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women
Menaka M
Madras Christian College
Zeenath Zarina N
Madras Christian College
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