The Research Centre for Business Sciences of the University of Beira Interior (NECE-UBI) promotes the training session “Necessary Condition Analysis”, lectured in English by the founder of the method, Professor Jan Dul. This training session will take place throughout three days, between the 17th and 19th of January, 2023, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Beira Interior (FCSH-UBI),
Necessary Condition Analysis:
Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA; Dul 2016, 2020, 2021) is an emerging method that is well-received in the academic community and is now used in many business and management research fields. NCA understands cause-effect relations as “necessary but not sufficient” and not as additive and average logic that is used in regression analysis.
NCA can be used as a stand-alone tool or in combination with regression-based approaches (e.g., multiple regression analysis, structural equation modelling) or Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). By adding a different logic and data analysis approach, NCA adds both rigour and relevance to theory and data analysis and provides new possibilities for impactful publications.
NCA Training Session:
The three-day training session includes four parts:
- Lectures:
- NCA introduction: Why NCA was developed, how the data analysis is different from what we normally do and how NCA can contribute to theory and practice;
- Publishing a study with NCA: How to publish a study in which NCA is used as the only method or as part of a multimethod research (for example, with multiple regression, structural equation modelling, qualitative comparative analysis);
- Other NCA topics: Remaining issues from the previous days and of common interest.
- Workshop NCA: Interactive workshop where questions about different aspects of NCA can be approached. For example, questions related to the formulation of necessity theory and hypotheses, the requirements for the data, and how the data analysis is exactly done. Furthermore, a demonstration of the NCA software that can be used to analyse the data.
- Individual and small group meetings: Individual researchers or a small number of individual researchers can discuss specific projects with Professor Jan Dul that potentially can benefit from NCA.
- Informal gathering (in between and after the formal sessions): Discussion of NCA-related and other academic topics in general.
Lecturer
Jan Dul is a professor of Technology and Human Factors at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. He has backgrounds in technical, medical and social sciences and has written more than 200 publications. His recent research focuses on work environments for human performance and empirical research methodology. Jan Dul is the founder of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA). He is a regular speaker at academic and professional events worldwide and has shared his insights with over 50 companies. Some of his recent awards are the “2013 Liberty Mutual Award”, the “International Ergonomics Association Distinguished Service Award” (2015), and the “Hal W. Hendrick Distinguished International Colleague Award” (2015).
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Participation:
Participating in the training session or the small group meetings requires attending the general introduction lecture/seminar or being otherwise familiar with NCA.
For the data analysis meeting, is it required that the dataset and the R package are available on the researcher’s computer.
Material needed:
- Laptop
- Software: The R Package (installation instructions will be sent after the registration).
The R package and the NCA software for R are freely available.
The participants do NOT need to have experience with R.
Language: English
Dates and time allocation:
17/01/2023 – 19/01/2023 (3 days)
- Lectures and interactive workshop: 10 hours
- Personalised counselling (individual and small group meetings): 10 hours
Registration:
Link: https://ubi.up.events/activities/view/training-sessions-necessary-condition-analysis
Deadline: 02/01/2023
Fees:
- Basic price: 100,00€;
- NECE students: 20,00€;
- Other students: 30,00€;
- NECE researchers: 50,00€.
More information: nece.gestao@ubi.pt
Notes:
*The registration platform provides, after payment, the invoice with the data entered by the participant. The participant must carefully check these data, especially the VAT number to be included. No new invoices will be issued due to incorrect data completion;
**No changes or cancellations will be accepted after the completed registration and payment;
***In case of non-attendance, the registration fee will not be refunded, nor will credits be generated for other events;
****In the case of students, proof of enrolment/registration will be requested at a later date;
*****After the registration deadline, additional information will be sent to participants.