ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the experiments that are made with different types of diaries. It explores about diaries as a means of studying managers’ jobs. The chapter focuses on some of the similarities in, and differences between, managers’ jobs. The choice of methods seemed to lie between observation or some form of self-recording. The research into the most suitable method of diary-keeping was in three parts. The first consisted of two managers’ seminars, each lasting one afternoon a week for nine weeks, which held at the Northampton College of Advanced Technology. The second was a revised form of diary which was tried out on members of managers’ courses in three different organizations. This diary was again revised and tried out in another managers’ course of one of the same organizations. The third consisted of the final diary form which was printed and used in the main research.
