International Business Research Skills - CW3 [Qualitative Research Report]

International Business
Research Skills - CW3
[Qualitative Research Report]

Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.....................................................................................................................................................3
Option 1 - Qualitative Research Tasks........................................................................................................3
a) You are required to watch the following video which is a poor example of how to conduct an
interview....................................................................................................................................................3
b) You should also watch this video......................................................................................................6
C. Please provide a detailed evaluation of participant observation...........................................................9
References....................................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
The research skills can be referred to as an ability which involves searching for, extracting,
evaluating, locating, organizing or may be using the information which is relevant to the specific
topic. In international business context, these skills plays an essential role as it involves
searching as well as selecting the quantitative and qualitative data and then analyzing and
interpreting it so that that data can be transformed in the useful information in order to conduct
the research on the specific business issue (Abood, & Alalwany, 2021). The research skills are
very much necessary for the workplace as it includes or may be allows the organizations and
individuals to make identification of the problems which may be hindering the performance at
workplace and learning some new ways in which the things can be evolved and adapted in order
to meet the workplace demands. This report will include three task, of which first includes
mistakes in the interview sessions and second part is the example of the good interview session.
Main Body
Option 1 - Qualitative Research Tasks
In this task, interviewer named Alison Jones who took the interview session with Shae
Bloomer and she is nurse by profession. During this interview session, interviewer did many
mistakes and the explanation about the mistakes which are done by the interviewer are discussed
below-
a) You are required to watch the following video which is a poor example of how to
conduct an interview
After watched the video, there were certain mistakes which many done by the interviewer are
given below -
• How the interviewer introduced the research topic to the interviewee.

Interviewer was over expressive and also very talkative and the way she introducted the topic is
not correct ethically. Interviewer adopted the unstructured approach which affected the
motivation of the interviewee.
Interviewer did not followed proper discipline and also Standardized, that was not planned well
in advance interviews in which prospects are asked a predetermined series of questions are
significantly not trustworthy than secret negotiations. This informal interview results in far more
detailed analyses of prospects, resulting in better selections in the end. The whole process of
interview was not well managed which created so many problems for the interviewee. During
the interview session, initially was uncomfortable the way interviewer given the explanation
about the topic of the interview (de Tommaso, Rodrigues & Pinsky, 2021).
• The speed at which the interviewer talked.
Interview was very much talkative and also asked the question in high speed which created so
many problems for the interviewee. At initial level, interviewee felt hesitated and also she face
problem to answer the questions because interviewer not paying more attention in her
conversation. The speed of the interview is high and over expressive so that is also considered as
the biggest mistake of that particular interview.
• Interviewer behavior during the interview, including:
In context of interviewer behaviour, there are certain things considered which are containing as
the main mistake of that particular interview that are discuss below -
o Her general behavior - the body language of the interviewer was not correct, she was over
expressive and also used more hand and eyes expressions that was looks like informal and
inappropriate.
o Her body language - the body language of the interview was not proper and interview of so
many questions at the same time. That particular interview session was not done in a proper
manner because interviewer behaved improperly and her body language was informal.