Semi-Structured Interviews

The researchers have provided a clear reason where they have conducted their study by choosing a single metropolitan hospital in UK and recruited their participants from that area that aimed to acquire perceptions from the participants about dignity in a healthcare setting. At the same time, determine the participants experiences in a changing cultural attitude for older people. (words 58)

“A semi-structured interview is a verbal interchange where one person, the interviewer, attempts to elicit information from another person by asking questions” (Longhurst, 2012, p. 103).

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.

As an Accounting major, I am very interested and have become fond of learning about the varying business aspects within the sports industry. As a result, I decided to conduct my interview with a professional that is associated with the business operations of athletics. The person that I interviewed was Dawn Reynolds, the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Business and Finance here at the University of Miami. After initially getting in contact with Ms. Reynolds a few weeks ago, I was finally able to meet with her briefly and conduct my interview on November 30, 2010, in room 261 in the Hecht Athletics Center. Just to give a bit of background information about Ms. Reynolds, she is from Elmira, New York and now

For college students, perhaps the most difficult decision they will be forced to make is what occupation to pursue. Picking a particular career from the thousands available can seem impossible at times. According to the University of La Verne, 50%-70% of students change their major at least one time during their academic career. Informational interviews are an excellent way of learning about a particular job from someone with first-hand experience.

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.

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.

Indirect observation sources included: informal interviews with A, the client’s primary instructor therapist. As well, a through review of the client’s personal binder was completed. The client information and reporting sections of the binder provided the client’s date of birth, diagnosis, treatment history, and program start date. The behaviour management section identified, in detail, the current behaviour protocols for the client. Additionally, the client’s ABLLS-R book was reviewed and showcased reports detailing current skill levels and abilities, as well as the learning progression of the client. Lastly, binders containing current and mastered programs were also examined to provide information on the client’s pre-requisite skills.

The process of the semi-structured interview was to find participants willing to be interviewed about cheating. Once I found my participants I recorded our conversations whilst asking them questions from my already prepared list of questions. I followed the list as I saw fit, mostly following the questions, but breaking away a little depending on how the conversation flowed and always going back to my original questions. The domain that was studied were college aged students, ages 18-25, who were primarily UConn students. College students are seen as a major demographic for cheating, so by conducting these interviews we are able to see what college students really think about cheating and whether or not they are viewed correctly in society. In this study there were a total of 27 participants. 15 of the participants were female and 12 were male. The ages ranged from 19-25.

For this assignment, I decided to interview a god friend of mine, Anthony Lu, who is eighteen years old. Throughout the discussion, I discovered that he is very much similar to me. For example, we both come from the great state of California. The only difference is that he is from the Northern region of California, while I am from the Southern. Here at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, it is Anthony Lu’s first year and along with majority of the students here, he is studying Aerospace Engineering.

This analysis provides an inductive analysis of a textual interview in order to establish connections between the data and the research objectives of this particular project. Correspondingly, the coding for this qualitative data intended to capture words and short phrases that were salient during the respective interview, which investigated program facilitator’s perspectives on Right to Play’s Promoting Life Skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) initiative. Initially, the analysis was attempted through NVivo. However, due to technical difficulties with the program and the writer’s computer a ‘hand coding’ approach was taken wherein Microsoft Word was employed and the text editor function was utilized in order to create nodes and colour code. The particular nodes create were as follows and the

I enjoyed reading your post. One of the things that you noted was that written forms of communication help ensure effective treatment planning of care. I read an article about the unstructured interview. The article points out the importance of the initial interview and how it is the beginning of the counseling relationship and the cornerstone of the assessment. Another thing that stands out in the article is the different types of clinical interviewing and the accuracy of diagnosing. For example, it discusses the accuracy of diagnosis based on different types of interviews such as unstructured interviews is highly on the counselor’s ability to recognize DSM-IV-TR diagnostic symptoms. Reading the article reminded me of how important

Conducting interviews is fundamental as a case manager. In order to understand more about good interviewing, I decided to watch an interview about an addict mother conducted by Dr. Phil. While watching this interview, I made some notes on attitudes and characteristics that I considered important for good interviewing. The characteristics will be presented in the following paragraphs.

While anthropologists have many prominent skills, one of upmost importance is that of interviewing. With greater attention to interpersonal relationships and communication, anthropologists are in an excellent position to engage in a multitude of interview styles, such as unstructured and semi-structured interviews (Schensul and LeCompte 2013). Unstructured interviewing allows for more flexibility in the number and sequence of questions, as well as for greater freedom in the respondent’s answers. The goal of such interviewing is to elicit open-ended responses that flow more like a conversation; a benefit of this method is the way in which in builds comfort and rapport with participants who may be beneficial later in the study. A key aspect

In order to effectively market products to consumers, marketers must be able to understand how product attributes can contribute to a consumer’s core values. The “micro” approach of a laddering styled interview, allows researchers the ability to understand the level of importance each attribute has to the consumer on a more intimate, individual level. Based on which attributes rank highest, marketing implications such as advertising and market segmentation can be carefully deliberated. This essay will reflect upon an interview with Jefferson Erazo, in which I used the laddering technique to discover how specific attributes of the $900 chain and earrings set he purchased for his wife contributed to his core values.