This study investigated impression management tactic use during structured interviews containing both experience-based and situational questions. Specifically, the authors examined whether applicants' use of impression management tactics depended on question type. Results from 119 structured interviews indicated that almost all of the applicants used some form of impression management. Signific...

The H. C. Andersen system revives a famous character and makes it carry out natural interactive conversation for edutainment. We compare results of the structured user interviews from two subsequent user tests of the system.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the perception of lime factory workers regarding work-related health-disease process. Data were collected from ten workers through non-structured observation and semi-structured interviews conducted in lime factories in the state of Ceará, Northeastern Brazil, in December 2005. Lime workers did not perceive themselves as being at risk for serious healt...

LEADERSHIP IS VIEWED as a complex phenomenon involving leaders, followers, situations and the variables that impact on them (Yura, Ozimek and Walsh 1981). A grasp of proficient leadership skills and concepts enables leaders to understand and control events more effectively in the work place. The area of leadership is well researched, but literature related to the elderly care home sector is sca...

Today it is clear that both modernizing and smartening tax system cause to increase tax revenues and moves the country's economy towards transparency and tax justice. This article aims at presenting a paradigmatic model of the organizational architecture of tax affairs based on the information technology governance in the state tax organization by using data method, a qualitative research metho...

This paper provides insight into the work of nurse practitioners in three Australian states. Using a case study approach, the aim of the study is to give an account of some of the types of cases/patients who consult with the nurse practitioners in the states visited and to offer insight into one of the policy changes required to support the introduction of the nurse practitioner role. A snowbal...

OBJECTIVES To examine perceptions of childhood illnesses, and the role of immunisation in preventing them, among caretakers of young children in Mhlakulo, a rural community in Transkei, Eastern Cape, and to suggest reasons for the low uptake of immunisations in that area. DESIGN In-depth qualitative research using semi-structured questionnaires, focus groups, and free listing. METHODS Detai...

Psychiatric case-identification in general populations allows us to study both individuals with functional psychiatric disorders and the populations from which they come. The individual level of analysis permits disorders to be related to factors of potential aetiological significance and the study of attributes of the disorders that need to be assessed in non-referred populations (an initially...