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Member Checking: Can Benefits Be Gained Similar to Group Therapy?

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In this article, the authors suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced, and they can feel a sense of relief that their feelings are validated and that they are not alone.
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Member checking continues to be an important quality control process in qualitative research as during the course of conducting a study, participants receive the opportunity to review their statements for accuracy and, in so doing; they may acquire a therapeutic benefit. The authors of this article suggest that this benefit is similar to some of the components of group therapy, especially in normalizing the phenomenon being experienced. Even if the participants never meet, they can feel a sense of relief that their feelings are validated and that they are not alone.

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Preparing Employees for Entrepreneurship in Retirement: A Case Study

TL;DR: Aikhuomogbe et al. as discussed by the authors explored how 15 civil service employees in Grade Levels 15-17 at the public service attained small-scale business information before retirement and found that 92% of retirees live in poverty because of insufficient preparation for entrepreneurship that could serve as an alternative income in retirement.

Exploration of Leadership Skills for Organizational Strategy Execution

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what best practice solutions automotive manufacturing senior leaders created to help front-line managers execute organizational strategies, including benchmarking, training, communication strategies, organizational change, and integrity.

Strategies Functional Managers Use to Control Cyberloafing Behaviors

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A Qualitative Evaluation of Leader-to-Millennial Relationship Development

TL;DR: A qualitative evaluation of leader-to-employee relationship development was conducted by Williams et al. as mentioned in this paper to explore 20 Millennial participants' experiences with their managers and found that they perceive effective relationship development as a process containing leader empowerment behaviors with collaborative social exchanges.

Strategies for Human Resources Professionals Using Social Networking Websites for Hiring Decisions

TL;DR: The use of social networking websites by employers without adequate strategies can lead to misuse of job applicant's information or discriminatory hiring practices as mentioned in this paper, which can also lead to job applicants being discriminated against.
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Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five traditions.

TL;DR: Creswell as mentioned in this paper explores the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of five qualitative inquiry traditions: biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study.
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Phenomenological Research Methods

TL;DR: A Phenomenological Analysis of Human Science Research Phenomenology and Human Science Inquiry Intentionality, Noema and Noesis Epoche as discussed by the authors, Phenomenologically Reduction, Imaginative Variation and Synthesis Methods and Procedures for Conducting Human science Research Analyses and Examples.
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Verification Strategies for Establishing Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The authors argue that qualitative researchers should reclaim responsibility for reliability and validity by implementing verification strategies integral and self-correcting during the conduct of inquiry itself, which ensures the attainment of rigor using strategies inherent within each qualitative design, and moves the responsibility for incorporating and maintaining reliability and validation from external reviewers' judgements to the investigators themselves.
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The theory and practice of group psychotherapy

TL;DR: Yalom as mentioned in this paper described the course of therapy from both the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint in Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and Every Day gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974).