Advantages Of Semi-Structured Interview

Teijlingen (2014), assert that semi structured interviews “consists of predetermined questions where every participant gets the same key question asked. However, on the other hand there is flexibility in how the questions are asked and what follow up or probing to use” (p.20). Similarly, Clifford, French and Valentine (2010), describes semi structured interview “as a verbal interchange where one person, the interviewer attempts to elicit information from another person by asking questions” (p.103)

Interviews are a part of our day to day lives, with interviews being conducted in every other social interaction. According to Maccoby and Maccoby (as cited in Brinkmann, 2013, p. 2-3) , an interview is ‘a face to face verbal exchange, in which one person, the interviewer attempts to elicit information or expression of opinion or belief from another person or persons’. However, there is a difference between interviews conducted in the normal social settings and interviews conducted for qualitative

Then turn to interviews. Interviews are classed as a qualitative research method and remain one of the most utilised research methods in industrial and HRM research. Whipp (1998, p.55) notes that “The interview is the primary means of accessing the experiences and subjective views of actors”. The main advantage of the interviews is that the rich data can be obtained from an interview. According to White (1989) the research into solicitor’s perceptions of ACAS was relatively easy to set up and forty

quantitative and mixed methods. This study will utilise a qualitative approach to obtain dual diagnosis service users perspective on minimising violent and aggressive behaviour. I will use focus groups to collect data from the patients and interview staff using semi structured questionnaires. This will permit me to examine the perspectives and experiences of dual diagnosis service users and staff as argued by Newell and Burnard (2006). Qualitative research places emphasis on the importance and understanding

full-service European airlines. The inductive research building component will focus on the implementation of an inductive and theory-building set of semi-structured interviews designed to develop a more robust understanding of the strategic processes that European full-service airlines use to secure positive brand equity and competitive advantage. This research will be coded and areas of similarity and difference analysed. The research will then develop a series of deductive research hypotheses

method, every sample elements are selected only on the basic of chance through a random process and removes bias from the selection procedure. Therefore, it should result in representative samples (Bachman & Schutt, 2017). Although there are distinct advantages to using a simple random sample in study, it is also important to keep in mind that there are some disadvantages as well. Especially for large studies, it can be costly and time-consuming. For example, the time needed to gather the list of a specific

INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH QUESTION Hidden Homelessness, a study by Sheffield Hallam University for Crisis, surveyed more than 400 rough sleepers revealing more than 1/5th of those interviewed had committed an imprisonable offence in order to get off the streets for the night (THE GUARDIAN 2010). Niven and Stewart 's 2005 research indicates 30% of people released from prison are homeless and offenders who are homeless prior to custody had one-year reconviction of 79% compared with 47% for those

Section 1: Methodological Considerations Question 1 One advantage of a semi structured interview is that in the case of participants who tend to answer questions briefly, the interviewer can ask more open ended questions and cater the structure of the interview for the participant. The interviewer has a choice of which order to ask the questions in and how to ask them. For instance, in the transcript for the interview, the interviewer is being provided with one sentence yes/no replies in the beginning

4.2 Interviews 4.2.1 The Essential Features of Interviews Interviews are an approach to collect data from participants (Denscombe, 2014). Interviews have two types: standardised (structured) and non-standardised (semi-structured and unstructured). Standardised interviews refer to that according to the requirements of a certain position, interviewees should follow fixed principles to response the closed questions in questionnaires. Also, standardised interviewing means an interview that structured

total population of 84 employees. A census study was used. 3.2 Data collection Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from the respondents. A questionnaire comprising of both structured and semi-structured items was adopted for the study. 3.4.1 Interview Schedules The study will use interview schedules will to obtain data from the County