A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization

This paper is about an experience of conducting a first interview of an executive in a Malaysian public research and development organization. The purpose of this phenomenological interview is to explore the executive’s experience on his decision to stay with the organization from the Human Resource...

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Main Authors: Taib, Anita, Suandi, Turiman, Krauss, Steven Eric, Ismail, Ismi Arif
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/1/35-24.pdf
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author Taib, Anita
Suandi, Turiman
Krauss, Steven Eric
Ismail, Ismi Arif
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description This paper is about an experience of conducting a first interview of an executive in a Malaysian public research and development organization. The purpose of this phenomenological interview is to explore the executive’s experience on his decision to stay with the organization from the Human Resource Development perspective. It is a first hand experience from the interviewee’s own language. The findings may provide better understanding why people stay in their current position especially in a public research and development organization by using phenomenological case study approach. A descriptive steps taken in conducting a phenomenological interview and problems throughout the interview is discussed and will be a guide to improve in the future interviews with other future relevant respondents of this study. The researcher ends with practical suggestions from her experience in conducting future interviews. The findings show pattern of codes and categories in accordance to the research questions through the researcher’s analytic lens. These findings are summarized in a matrix form to show how it fits in the theory used and will be used to develop a code book and thus developing the themes that will lead towards the development of theory.
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spelling upm-587782018-02-05T07:56:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/ A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization Taib, Anita Suandi, Turiman Krauss, Steven Eric Ismail, Ismi Arif This paper is about an experience of conducting a first interview of an executive in a Malaysian public research and development organization. The purpose of this phenomenological interview is to explore the executive’s experience on his decision to stay with the organization from the Human Resource Development perspective. It is a first hand experience from the interviewee’s own language. The findings may provide better understanding why people stay in their current position especially in a public research and development organization by using phenomenological case study approach. A descriptive steps taken in conducting a phenomenological interview and problems throughout the interview is discussed and will be a guide to improve in the future interviews with other future relevant respondents of this study. The researcher ends with practical suggestions from her experience in conducting future interviews. The findings show pattern of codes and categories in accordance to the research questions through the researcher’s analytic lens. These findings are summarized in a matrix form to show how it fits in the theory used and will be used to develop a code book and thus developing the themes that will lead towards the development of theory. Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2017 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/1/35-24.pdf Taib, Anita and Suandi, Turiman and Krauss, Steven Eric and Ismail, Ismi Arif (2017) A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization. In: Graduate Research in Education Seminar (GREduc) 2017, 16 Dec. 2017, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia. (pp. 163-170).
spellingShingle Taib, Anita
Suandi, Turiman
Krauss, Steven Eric
Ismail, Ismi Arif
A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title_full A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title_fullStr A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title_full_unstemmed A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title_short A preliminary exploration of executive retention in a Malaysian public research and development organization
title_sort preliminary exploration of executive retention in a malaysian public research and development organization
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58778/1/35-24.pdf