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ended, and further open-ended questioning was also included thus allowing the discovery of further categories. As
such a number of distinct overall categories were found from interview data analysis:
• Relationships with colleagues - friendships with colleagues helped to improve individual experience in the
workplace.
• Passionate staff - employees were clearly passionate about working for the organisation, and about having
the opportunity to improve it.
• Creative staff - as well as being passionate about working for the organisation, employees had a variety of
ideas as to how it could be improved to save money and improve psychosocial working conditions.
• Successful working - the experience of completing pieces of work often throughout the day.
Table 26 illustrates the areas of the workplace which were found to be 'working well' through the log and
interview phases. It demonstrates those themes which merged from the two data collection phases, headed
'similarities' in the table. Also on the table are the 'differences', i.e. those areas which were working well and yet
found solely in either from the log or interview phases. These differences can potentially be accounted for in two
ways:
1. Individuals who took part in the interview process did not explicitly agree with the comments and results
from the daily logs.
2. The interviews were semi-structured in nature. Therefore, while having a basic interview schedule to work
towards the semi-structured nature means that interesting and potentially important developments can be
explored during the interview process which cannot be done within the log process.