Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt
Qualitative interviews offer rich and detailed information in understanding people’s experiences. However, qualitative inquiry might be difficult for inexperience researcher to adequately perform the interview. Piloting for interview is an integral aspect and useful in the process of conducting qual...
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| author | Abdul Majid, Mohd Aliff Othman, Mohhidin Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina Yusof, Aziz |
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| description | Qualitative interviews offer rich and detailed information in understanding people’s experiences. However, qualitative inquiry might be difficult for inexperience researcher to adequately perform the interview. Piloting for interview is an integral aspect and useful in the process of conducting qualitative research as it highlights the improvisation to the major study. This article discusses the importance of pilot study, the methods undertaken and the lessons learnt throughout the process. The pilot interview was conducted with two offshore catering employees, as preparation for a dissertation in developing a job satisfaction instrument for offshore catering employees in Malaysia. The useful functions of pilot study are described and in highlighting the advantageous of pilot study, this paper describes the modification made for the major study as a result of the pilot work. These comprise (1) criteria for selecting potential participants, and (2) improving the interview guide, particularly the interview questions. |
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| spelling | upm-565982017-08-03T05:16:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56598/ Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt Abdul Majid, Mohd Aliff Othman, Mohhidin Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina Yusof, Aziz Qualitative interviews offer rich and detailed information in understanding people’s experiences. However, qualitative inquiry might be difficult for inexperience researcher to adequately perform the interview. Piloting for interview is an integral aspect and useful in the process of conducting qualitative research as it highlights the improvisation to the major study. This article discusses the importance of pilot study, the methods undertaken and the lessons learnt throughout the process. The pilot interview was conducted with two offshore catering employees, as preparation for a dissertation in developing a job satisfaction instrument for offshore catering employees in Malaysia. The useful functions of pilot study are described and in highlighting the advantageous of pilot study, this paper describes the modification made for the major study as a result of the pilot work. These comprise (1) criteria for selecting potential participants, and (2) improving the interview guide, particularly the interview questions. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56598/1/Piloting%20for%20interviews%20in%20qualitative%20research%20operationalization%20and%20lessons%20learnt.pdf Abdul Majid, Mohd Aliff and Othman, Mohhidin and Mohamad, Siti Fatimah and Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina and Yusof, Aziz (2017) Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 7 (4). pp. 1073-1080. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/journals/archive_detail/IJARBSS/174 10.6007/IJARBSS/v7-i4/2916 |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Majid, Mohd Aliff Othman, Mohhidin Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina Yusof, Aziz Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title | Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title_full | Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title_fullStr | Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title_short | Piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
| title_sort | piloting for interviews in qualitative research: operationalization and lessons learnt |
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