Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project

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interviewees (two or more), and how you will gain access to your participants and (b) a brief rationale for why you have chosen this topic and detailed information identifying why the interviewees are appropriate. Also preparing an interview by completing the Interview Guide Template, which models similar activities that you will have to complete if you are doing a qualitative research. this must included Primary Business Research Phenomenon, Research Question, Primary Research Goal(s),Initial Probe Questions, Targeted Interview Questions, Targeted Follow-up Questions, Wrap-up Question. The next step would be to code the transcriptions and identify themes. This will require completing the Transcript and Coding Template for both interviews. this includes the following: the research questions for these interviews, A list of the codes developed from the interview transcripts, A description of thinking or working process, explaining how it was developed with the codes, including any evolution of the coding system, In-text coding for the interviews (This means identify chunks of data [codes]. Then create a list of themes and their descriptions developed from the codes. Keeping the interview transcripts intact, and show where the codes have been applied to the text.) Finally a write up of 5- to 7-page synthesis in which it detail the process and results for the small-scale qualitative research project. With the synthesis, which is complete using the Small-Scale Qualitative Project Write-Up Template. this will included: Background of the Problem, Research Problem, Interview Questions, Data Collection (Interview Transcripts), Data Analysis (Coding and Theme Analysis, Presentation of Findings, Conclusion, References (in APA format)

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Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Interview Guide Template What one or two major concepts, ideas, phenomena (potentially related to the effective practice of management, leadership, or other organizational phenomena/problem) would you like to learn about from this interview? That is, what is the primary research phenomenon/problem that you are studying? Reminder: This Assignment is built on the assumption that you will conduct a 15- to 20minute interview with each interviewee you identified, so you need to focus, focus, and focus, as 20 minutes will pass extremely quickly! PRIMARY BUSINESS RESEARCH PHENOMENON UNDER STUDY AND OVERARCHING RESEARCH QUESTION: [Insert primary research topic and question here.] PRIMARY RESEARCH GOALS YOU WOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE (LEARN) FROM THE INTERVIEW [Insert primary research goal(s) here.... Example: The purpose of this interview is to explore....] © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 1 of 3 Begin your interview by establishing a context and by exploring credentials and backgrounds of your interviewee as they relate to the topic under study. This should take less than 5 minutes. INITIAL PROBE QUESTIONS: (Context, credentials/background, interest and knowledge of topics) [Insert initial probe questions here.] A second set of questions should focus more specifically on the topic at hand and should relate back to your primary learning objectives and research questions/phenomenon. These questions can and should relate to “what, who, and how.” This should take up to 10 minutes. TARGETED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS - (link these to what you intend to learn about the topic) [Insert targeted concept questions here.] © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 2 of 3 As you interview, you may find that opportunities arise for follow-up questions. At this point, it is very useful to explore “why” types of questions as well. Try to prepare and anticipate such follow-up questions, but use this template during the interview to take notes as you think of interesting follow-up questions. TARGETED FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS [Insert targeted follow-up questions here.] Finally, as time permits, try for a wrap-up question. TARGETED WRAP-UP QUESTIONS [Insert wrap-up question here.] Remember, you are targeting a 20-minute interview with each interviewee, and if you get more than 20 minutes of information, you’ll only transcribe 20 minutes. Now, go to the interviews, have fun, observe both verbal and non-verbal cues, be alert and flexible, and work with what your interviewees are providing. Don’t ask leading questions, and be sure to record the interviews and take notes. © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 3 of 3 Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Write-Up by Name Doctor of Business Administration Prospectus – Name of DBA Specialization Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration XXXXX University Student ID: A0000000 Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Write-Up Background of the Problem Type text here. Address the background of the problem here. It will be helpful to review the DBA Doctoral Study Rubric to access specific details regarding this component. Research Problem Type text here. Present the research problem here. You should use the information presented in the completed DDBA 8303 Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Interview Guide Template. Interview Questions Type text here. Present the interview questions here. These questions were provided in the DDBA 8303 Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Interview Guide Template. Data Collection (Interview Transcripts) Type text here. Remember, only use 20 minutes of transcripts if your interview goes over 20 minutes. Use APA headings for each interviewee (see examples below). Interviewee 1 Type text here. Type transcription from Interview #1 here. Remember, only use 20 minutes of transcripts if your interview goes over 20 minutes. Use APA headings for each interviewee (as shown here). Interviewee 2 Type text here. Type transcription from Interview #2 here. Remember, only use 20 minutes of transcripts if your interview goes over 20 minutes. Use APA headings for each interviewee (as shown here) Data Analysis (Coding and Theme Analysis)1 Table X depicts the coding and theme analysis. Question/ Response # Q/1 R/1 Interviewee Response/Codes2 As you already know, this interview is part of a larger study to discover whether there is any connection between how well people do in college and the kinds of memories they have of their high school experiences. Would you start by telling me some of your most outstanding memories of your high school? Well, it’s been two years—a long two years! But I can’t forget certain things. I probably won’t as long as I live. For example, I entered the ninth grade a year younger than average, so I got bullied around quite a bit by the other boys. . .got my nose bloodied in gym when I was paired with a guy with about six inches longer reach than I had. Theme 1. 2. 3. Physically smaller and younger … subjected me to bullying. Lifelong damaging effects. Theme 3, etc. Presentation of Findings Theme 1 Title Here Type text here. Here you would discuss the first theme. Theme 2 Title Here Type text here. Here you would discuss the second theme. Conclusion 1 The table used in the Week 5 Assignment can be inserted here. Add additional rows as needed. 2 It is helpful to use colored text (red and blue in this case) to identify codes and associated themes. References Type references here in correct APA format. . Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Overview Introduction The primary Assignments for this course (done over multiple weeks) involve the completion of a small-scale qualitative research project, which is intended to walk you through some of the conceptual challenges you will face when doing qualitative research and to help you build skills in doing such research. This series of Assignments focuses on you conducting interviews with at least two individuals and then transcribing the interviews and coding the interview transcriptions into a qualitative research format. The purpose of this handout is to provide supplemental information to help you successfully complete this series of Assignments. Elements of Your Study Selecting Your Small-Scale Project Subject , you should identify at least two potential interviewees and the topic for your smallscale qualitative research study. Ideally, you would seek to identify individuals who may be related to a general topic that you intend to examine for your Doctoral Study (that is, choose a “purposive sample”). However, given the short timeframe in which you are to choose a topic and identify your interviewees, you may have to rely on what is termed “convenience sampling.” That is, you could choose a topic and people that will allow you to run through the processes of conducting a good qualitative research interview and write-up, but that have nothing to do with your Doctoral Study—or even business. In other words, you would choose a topic and people that you can access conveniently in order to complete the project in a timely manner. What is important is that you structure the interviews to talk about an issue of substance and that you choose a topic that you can then analyze and write up. The closer you can get to conducting interviews about a topic related to business, or related directly to your Doctoral Study, the better, but that is not a formal requirement for this series of Assignments. Once you have chosen your topic and interviewees, post (a) a two-paragraph summary of the process by which you selected your business problem, your interviewees (two or more), and how you will gain access to your participants and (b) a brief rationale for why you have chosen this topic and detailed information identifying why the interviewees are appropriate. © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 1 of 4 The Interview Guide , you will prepare for your interview by completing the Interview Guide Template, which models similar activities that you will have to complete if you are doing a qualitative research design for your DBA Doctoral Study. You will submit your completed Interview Guide Template, which will include the following components: • Primary Business Research Phenomenon • Research Question (Level 2) • Primary Research Goal(s) • Initial Probe Questions • Targeted Interview Questions (Level 1) • Targeted Follow-up Questions • Wrap-up Question Conducting the Interviews you will begin planning the interview process and preparing for your interviews. You will review the Required Media on planning and conducting interviews in preparation for conducting your interviews and submitting your interview transcriptions next week. Remember, your interviews should last 15–20 minutes and must be audio-recorded, since this is the standard for good practice in qualitative research interviews. As a reminder, there is no submission due this week, but you should work to complete your interviews and transcriptions for next week. Conducting the Interviews (if you have not already done so), you should conduct the actual interviews. Seek to conduct the interviews in a location that is comfortable and quiet for both you and your interviewees. Bring your prepared Interview Guide Template and a dependable recording device that can accommodate 20 minutes of interview material. Note: This does NOT have to be a tape recorder; you could use a computer, iPhone or other smartphone that has a recording application, or other recording device. You are required to record the interviews, as that is a baseline practice for effective qualitative research. You should also take notes, however, that would allow you to reconstruct the interviews should your recording fail. This means that you should write down, within quotations, key phrases and important segments so you can reconstruct if need be. You will submit your completed interview transcriptions, which each should include no more than 20 minutes of transcribed material. © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 2 of 4 Coding of the Interview and Theme Analysis you will use your completed transcription document, and you will code your transcriptions and identify themes. You will complete and submit the Transcript and Coding Template for both interviews, to include the following components: • • • • Your research questions for these interviews A list of the codes you developed from your interview transcripts A description of your thinking or working process, explaining how you developed your codes, including any evolution of your coding system In-text coding for your interviews (This means that you are to select and identify chunks of data [codes]. Then create a list of themes and their descriptions developed from the codes. Keep your interview transcripts intact, and show where you have applied the codes to the text.) Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Write-Up Finally, in Week 6, you will write up and submit a 5- to 7-page synthesis in which you detail the process and results for your small-scale qualitative research project. Your synthesis, which you will complete using the Small-Scale Qualitative Project Write-Up Template, should include the following components: • • • • • • • • Background of the Problem Research Problem Interview Questions Data Collection (Interview Transcripts) Data Analysis (Coding and Theme Analysis) Presentation of Findings Conclusion References (in APA format) Conclusion At the completion of this series of Assignments, you will have a small working model of the process that one undertakes during a qualitative research project! Remember, you worked on just a 20-minute sequence, based on two interviews. When you begin to work on your actual Doctoral Study using qualitative methods (should you use a qualitative or mixed design), the research design will be much more complicated, and you will spend considerable amounts of time preparing for multiple interviews, collecting data from various sources, analyzing and coding large segments of data, and writing up the final results. © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 3 of 4 Qualitative research is extremely rewarding, but it requires considerable planning and time to execute properly. You now have experience with some of the basic techniques required for successful qualitative research! © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 4 of 4 Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project Transcript and Coding Template1 Research Question: Type research question here. Question/Response Interviewee Response/Codes2 Theme # Q/1 As you already know, this interview is part of a larger study to 1. Physically discover whether there is any connection between how well smaller and people do in college and the kinds of memories they have of younger … their high school experiences. Would you start by telling me subjected me some of your most outstanding memories of your high school? to bullying. 2. Lifelong R/1 Well, it’s been two years—a long two years! But I can’t damaging forget certain things. I probably won’t as long as I live. For effects. example, I entered the ninth grade a year younger than average, so I got bullied around quite a bit by the other boys. 3. Theme 3, etc. . .got my nose bloodied in gym when I was paired with a guy with about six inches longer reach than I had. 1 The Transcript and Coding Template is intended as a guide/template to use for the Week 5 Assignment. Please adjust accordingly. Important: You must fill out this template for each interviewee. 2 It is helpful to use colored text (red and blue in this case) to identify codes and associated themes. © 2017 Laureate Education, Inc. Page 1 of 1
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Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project
Transcript and Coding Template1
Research Question: Type research question here.
Interviewee Response/Codes2

Question/R
esponse #
Q/1

Q/1
R/1
R/2
Q/2
R/1

R/2

Q/3

It is my understanding that you work within the creative
industry. What exactly do you do within this industry?
Yes, I certainly do. I am a painter by profession. I have been,
for 5 years now.
You got that right! I bake, both as a career and a hobby. I do
my baking from my house.
How would you describe the creative industry in general?
A lot of people have always considered careers in creativity as
poor men’s professions. However, the industry has shown a
lot of growth given encouragement of nurturing talents.
I would consider it to be shifting from the traditional to the
modern mindset given that people are embracing creativity
and innovation now.
What is the relationship between leadership and, creativity
and innovation?

Theme

1. Creative
professions
– painting &
baking.
2. Professions
running for a
long period –
5 years.
3. Despised
careers due
to a
traditional
mindset –
“Poor men’s
professions”.
4. Mindset shift
– embracing
and
encouragem

1

The Transcript and Coding Template is intended as a guide/template to use for the Week 5 Assignment. Please adjust accordingly.
Important: You must fill out this template for each interviewee.
2
It is helpful to use colored text (red and blue in this case) to identify codes and associated themes.
© 2017 Laureate Education, Inc.

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ent.
R/1

R/2

This relationship shared between these two aspects is a
symbiotic one. Both aspects gain from each other and neither
can do without the other.
Creativity and innovation largely depends on leadership. In
the last few years, leaders have been slowly embracing
creativity and innovation at the workplace after realizing the
benefits.

Q/4

What is the effect of leadership on creativity and innovation?

R/1

Leadership can be viewed as a gateway to the realization of
the potential of creativity and innovation on an individual and
the organization as a whole. Organizational leaders make it
possible for employees to find new and better ways of
realizing organizational goals, and helping them get to realize
the amount of potential they have.
I believe leaders have the ability to help their employees be
motivated to nurture their creative and innovative aspects. At
the same time, they allow them to play a key role in the
organization especially when it comes to finding new ways of
dealing with issues or challenges in the organization.
How would you describe the creative industry based on the
employer you work for?
My employer is one of those people who are keen on
following up on any improvements in the industry. That being
said, he is one person whose curiosity has borne fruit and he
has, therefore, made it possible for the employees to grow
their talents. He has also made it possible for them to put
forward their creative and innovative ideas for use within the
company. He has provided a lot of support to the employees.
This being said, the creative industry is great and growing
fast.

R/2

Q/5
R/1

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5. Symbiotic
relationship

dependence
on each
other, benefit
realization

6. Gateway to
potential
realization
through
nurturing
7. Source of
creative
ways of
dealing with
issues.

8. Conformatio
n to changes
in the
industry

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R/2

Q/6
R/1

R/2

Q/7
R/1

R/2

Q/8

R/1
R/2

Challenging, is the best way to describe the creative industry
on the basis of my boss. When I joined the company, he was
and has been one of those employers who hold on to the
traditional way of life. He made it difficult for the employees to
make use of their talents. A few years down the line, however,
the changes in the industry have somehow forced him to
adjust to the new changes, therefore, increasing our flexibility.
Why do you think it is important for leadership to make room
for creativity and innovation in businesses?
As I said earlier, these two aspects go hand in hand and one
cannot exist without the other. Creativity and innovation
encourage growth of an organization which then reflects
positively on the leadership of the organization.
Leadership makes it possible for talents to be nurtured and
developed. Employees are able to see a future in what they
do.
Why do you think some leaders are adamant in encouraging
creative and innovative ideas in their employees?
They are basically afraid of change and they believe that
holding on to what they know is better than venturing into
unknown waters.
They have been succeeding through the old school way of
doing things. Changing them would mean a whole new
structure and way of doing things. They feel that they might
lose themselves in the process of embracing change.
As we finalize, what strides do you think will have been made
by organizations in 10...


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