Reference no: EM132262096

The task The assignment requires you to conduct a qualitative interview, to analyse the data from this interview, and to write a report based on this. The precise tasks that you need to do to complete the assignment are set out below.

Stage One You are required to conduct a qualitative interview with an employee on ONE of the following topics:

My topic : Working in the service sector – an employee’s experience of working with customers and ‘performing’ for customers and the stresses and rewards of this.

The assignment should be produced in an essay format and should provide: 1. An account of the analysis that you have conducted on the interview data. This account include: a. A short introduction that covers the topic and the specific issue (e.g. maternity leave, long working hours etc..) of the interview and an overview of the interview schedule. Here you should say what influenced your choice of interview questions (approx.: 200 words). b. The rationale for your choice of interview (semi-structured/unstructured) and your analytic strategy (e.g. the reasons and justifications for why you chose thematic analysis or template analysis) and the suitability to your chosen issue. You may need to reference relevant research methods books. (Approx.: 200 words) c. How you conducted the data analysis. You need to make your description of the analysis process as clear and as transparent as possible, so if you are using template analysis you should include information on, for example, how you constructed the template, how you performed the coding process, the final template and why this changed from the initial template. (Approx.: 300 words) d. The findings of your analysis. These include the themes that flow from the interview (and the transcript) and tabulated using an order of choice. (Approx.: 200 words) e. A reflection on the process of interviewing and analysis. You may want to focus on issues such as the insights your analysis has provided into the research topic, the difficulties you encountered in conducting the interviews, the difficulty you encountered in conducting your analysis, the quality of your results, the limitations of using interviews to study your research topic and the limitations of the analytical approach taken as well as any ethical issues that arose in the research. This should be approximately 500 words of the total word count. 2. An appendix that includes: a. A copy of the original transcript including the interview questions. b. The audio file of your interview recording to supplement your transcript uploaded to weblearn. c. Evidence of analysis (e.g. a copy of a template or a copy of a transcript with annotation of the codes and themes). You could return the same file in a).