The materials that will be used are a tape recorder, notepad, and pen. Procedure Qualitative interviewing "is based on a set of topics to be discussed rather than based on standardized questions" (Comstock, Gulati & Liguori, 2010)
I have decided not to participate actively because I feel it is not necessary, and I will gain better insight by observing them. My participation will not yield the results I am looking for because I am not among the sample that I am studying (Burkitt, 2011)
I will use Semi-Directed Interview Behavior where there is mixed control because I want to give the participants the chance provide their ideas and information. This flexibility will give the participants a chance to discuss their use of the Smartphone and provide opinions, ideas, and suggestions for improvement (Lopez, 2012)
I will ask them to perform the tasks that they mentioned in the interviews and record my observations. During this process, I will take notes of empirical observations and my personal interpretations (Jargon, 2012)
I have obtained permission from the subjects to conduct this case study. Time constraint will make it impossible to travel a long distance or study a large number of participants (Perner, n
, 2007). Research indicates that in-office counseling on the relation between weight and exercise and overall health are influential in patient follow through with recommendations for interventions (Do, et al
, 2003). Absolute weight remains a problem for obese people as their joints continue to be overtaxed by excessive weight and this contributes to further deterioration of the joint and a decline in functioning (Fontaine, et al
Despite the fact that activity across the day and physical exercise provide some protective benefits to people who are obese, many people are not physically active and do not maintain an exercise regimen. Research on the benefits of an active live has extended to overweight people who have also managed to become fit without a substantive loss in excess weight (McInnis, et al
Because the program is designed specifically for helping new readers learn basic reading skills the experimenter chooses only beginning first-grade students as the population of interest. Thus, as the subject variable is one that cannot be the target of random assignment (you cannot randomly assigned subjects to the first-grade) a nonequivalent control group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design is selected as the preferential design (Cozby & Bates, 2012)
The major threat to the internal validity of study include the fact that different teachers are using the different programs, thus there is the potential for some of the differences in the outcome to be due to the teacher's style of teaching, the particular classroom atmosphere, etc. rather than the reading program (Thompson, Diamond, McWilliam, Snyder, & Snyder, 2005)
This was seen both in explicit mentions of communication ease and of the technologies and processes popular for communication, with all of these cited as benefits. The relationship between modern technologies and communication specifically in mentor, though some research has suggested that the increased ability for connection between mentors and mentees has benefits that make up for the detriments caused by reduced in-person meetings and communications (Mueller, 2004)
) it would be presumptuous to start generalizing these findings or drawing practical implications and guidance from them, however the consistency and the clarity of the responses in this regard is certainly worthy of consideration. The general and specific benefits experienced by mentor and mentee relationships have a great deal of import on motivations to engage in mentoring programs, both in providing examples of benefits to those outside the program and encouraging ongoing participation in other mentoring programs for those directly involved (Ragins, 2009; Banerjee, 2012)
These benefits would be clearly influential in motivating active participation in mentoring programs, however further research would be required in order to more reliably establish the extent of these benefits and the mechanism of their creation or instigation. Knowledge Transfer Knowledge transfer and information sharing is one of the most concrete and straightforward as well as explicit elements of almost any mentor-mentee relationship, and could be considered the foundation and fundamental purpose of such relationships (Swap et al
Khermouch's analysis of ethnography as a potential method in market research provides new opportunities for qualitative research become prevalent in the field of marketing. One of the main advantages of qualitative research is that it allows researchers to probe deeper to determine consumer attitudes, ascertaining the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of consumers to a particular product or service, in particular (Churchill, 1995:196)
, consumers who are patrons of or defectors from a particular product or service). Through this method, the researcher "attempts to understand things that are otherwise foreign" (Littlejohn, 1999:211)
In specific, the employees play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective adoption of the strategies required for the realization of creativity and innovativeness within the organization. Providing the employees with a working environment that takes into consideration their varied needs, promotes innovation as compared to environments that fail to consider their needs (Hu & Chen, 2013)
Self-administered questionnaires will also reduce the time that could otherwise be used conducting interviews with the other organizational stakeholders. The study will use small-scale and medium organizations to acquire understanding of the relationship between the variable being studied (Phoocharoon, 2013)
Similarly, the interviews will be conducted to facilitate the measuring of the actions used by managers to promote the creativity and innovation within their organizations. Among the variables that will be tested by the questionnaires, include the views of the managers on innovation, attitudes, efforts for supporting innovation, and significance in the performance of their organizations (Uzkurt, Kumar, & Ensari, 2013)
' "National healthcare policies are often moulded by a range of non-evidence-based factors including historical, cultural, and ideological influences. Moreover, when national guidelines or healthcare policies encourage clinicians to perform procedures that are not evidence based, the unnecessary work acts as a barrier to the implementation of other well founded knowledge" (Haynes & Haines 1998)
"More than 100 risk factors of pressure ulcers have been identified in the literature. Some physiological (intrinsic) and nonphysiological (extrinsic) risk factors that may place adults at risk for pressure ulcer development include diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, cerebral vascular accident, sepsis, and hypotension" (Lyder & Ayello 2008)