Semi-Structured Interview

What factors contribute to their conflict resolution styles? Do you know of anyone who handles relationship conflicts effectively? If so, describe their conflict

There are two types of collecting data for research, which are qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research is used to gain a thorough explanation about a phenomena, and ‘is normally recognisable via the use of methods that include, at least, in-depth interview and group-moderation techniques’ (Bailey 2013)

Recent advancements in technology offer the organizations of today and the future boundless opportunities for improvements in service delivery. Although experts agree that the alignment of technology and the overall business strategy is both necessary and imperative, no clear path to optimum alignment exists. Christopher Nuckles, a IT Director I interviewed demonstrated full awareness of this fact. he and the company’s CIO, Matt Carey, and the executive IT leaders and displayed optimism the “interconnected retail strategy” they have for the company will ensure that Home Depot remains the product authority for home improvement. As part of the technical team that developed, enhanced, or supported several of the technological systems at Home Depot, Nuckles believes that the key to a successful technological future is innovation. Nuckles recognizes that the biggest hurdle for the Home Depot technology is the emerging e-commerce and he adds that Home Depot is ready for the boom. He explains that plans are underway to optimize the Home Depot mobile application entirely and make it available on all platforms so that the company remains relevant as technology keeps advancing.

There was a strength in the study from the use of qualitative methodology and thematic analysis to code the interviews of the participants.

In order to meet the study objectives, in addition to the case study, a semi-structured interview was conducted using non-random sampling. As respondents of the interview had to have particular characteristics such as ability to value property and knowledge about the property market, estate agents were contacted. A total of 7 interviews were conducted with estate agents in the West Hampstead/Kilburn area. The interviews lasted approximately 10 minutes. The participants were as follows:

I interviewed a psychologist for my second field research. Sharon Epel has been a licensed psychotherapist for 12 years and has been a family and marriage counsellor in her own private practice. She has done extensive work with schools and has been a therapist to a variety of temperaments and personalities. I wanted to understand how she helps people, and what she notices about them in her sessions. I tried to create an informative interview that would benefit me by giving me a look into how people’s brains influence their emotions. I hoped that this interview would give me a solid understanding of introverts and extraverts and their differences.

Resources might include recording equipment, such as cameras and recorders, if necessary. At times, note taking is important. Having the appropriate materials available, including books, papers and pens.

When is the last time you were able to do something you really enjoy? A month ago (Shopping)

Our participant, whom we shall call by the pseudonym Masami, is a 42-year-old female part-time English teacher at a public junior high school. The school is located in a lower-middle-class area in the suburb Tokyo. She was educated in one of the prestigious universities in Japan, where she received a B.A. in English in 1996 and M.A. in English Teaching in 1998. When she was writing her M.A. thesis, she became pregnant, and immediately after she completed her Masters, she got married and started a family. After 12 years of being a homemaker and a mother, at the age of 36, she began working as a part-time teacher.

When it comes to exploring the research question of how self-identity and self-perception affect your socio-economic status as an African American woman, affective method was chosen to look into how subjective qualities of human experience affect the core motives for human action, reaction, and interaction (Saldana p. 105). Value coding for the first cycle coding was selected because it allowed me to compare and contrast, consistent and emerging patterns of values among each participant. The theoretical framework of Black Feminism also guided the researcher to choosing value coding to see how the paradigms of race, class, and gender affected identity, values and behaviors. The nature of the research question in seeking what self-values followed

After interviewing my Grandfather, I realized that our physical, social, and cognitive skills do change over time. He stated that as the years progressed he lacked the ability to complete simple tasks. When an adult begins to lack the ability to remember things and complete everyday tasks then it is an example of how aging can have an effect on people. My interviewee also stated in the interview that he gets tired more easily, so physically he does not have the same capacity that he did at a younger age. Socially he has changed into a basically listener instead of a speaker. As he got older he mentioned he lost interest in speaking as much as he was accustomed to, and began listening more to what others had to say. He represents a perfect example of how later adulthood can make your social, cognitive, and physical skills decrease.

The data collection was done in two phases. Focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews were organized. In the first phase two focus groups that involved nine of the healthcare providers were conducted in November and December of 2009. The researchers incorporated this phase to pinpoint the most important topics to observe during the main stage of the research study. The second phase integrated the individual semi-structured interviews that ranged from February to September of 2010 and consisted of the remaining 25 healthcare providers that cared for patients with cachexia. That study stated that all of the interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed into the exact same words of the individual to be analyzed. The researchers

Structured interviews are very similar to questionnaires. The interviewer is given strict instructions and often training on how to ask the questions. Each time they interview a different respondent, they conduct it in a very standardised manner. For example, the same questions are asked, word for word, in the same order, and tone of voice.

Thematic content analysis was used in order to be able to draw conclusions from the qualitative data from the interviews and document review (DeSantis & Noel Ugarriza, 2000). Qualitative content analysis is defined as: “a research method for the subjective interpretation of the content of text data through the systematic classification process of coding and identifying themes or patterns” (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005, p.1278). This means that the data input is evaluated to search for patterns that extend across the data and coded into categories in order to develop data interpretations (Vaismoradi, Turunen, & Bondas, 2013). For this purpose ATLAS.ti was used to analyse the qualitative data findings. Codes were first prepared in accordance with the theoretical framework (for this framework see Appendix B) (Braun & Clarke, 2006). ATLAS.ti was used for assigning open codes as well as to create coding memos. Codes and themes were analysed and related to theory formulation (see Appendix C for the code book that was used in ATLAS.ti) (for a review and practical guide to using qualitative data analysis see Hwang, 2008). For each code, an output was created. This output consists of a file in which all the quotations of a certain code to be put one after the other, these are the passages that are encoded from all the transcripts. This output file then gives a quick

There are numerous reasons why an individual decided to become an entrepreneur. Naturally, one of the purposes of founding a business is to generate income for the entrepreneur (Hoffman & Casnocha, 2012). However, it is also understood there is more to gauging the success of a venture than purely just the profitability, or bottom line (Hoffman & Casnocha, 2012). In a concept noted as The Four Bottom Lines, success is gauged on more humanistic criteria (Katz & Green, 2013). The four bottom lines are referred to as The firm, Community, Family, and Yourself (Katz & Green, 2013). The thought behind The four bottom lines concept is to measure an entrepreneur’s satisfaction through the