The police officers have been an important part of the society. This is due to the major role they play in ensuring that the society is safe, from both the lawbreakers and even the people who can cause harm. However, there are many cases that associates the police with high levels of arrogance and negligence, either to the general public or even to their families.
The main objective of this research paper is to determine the relationship between the police arrogance, and the levels of job satisfaction and the job hazards presented.This research sets to investigate the reasons as to why there are many cases of police arrogance and negligence, towards the general public and even their families. The research also aims at analyzing the relationship between the police arrogance levels, with the factors of job satisfaction and the job hazards presented by the tasks they undertake.
Job satisfaction and the level at which a person feels comfortable and even loves doing their duties is a major factor towards a happy life. Many police officers find themselves in the workforce which they do not enjoy doing. The majority of the officers have challenges in handling the various cases and the tedious and stressing tasks presented before them.Many officers are presented by many challenges in their line of duty which makes it very hard for the officers to have a job satisfaction. The levels of salaries and even free and leisure time is minimal, and even sometimes never given (Boke &Nalla, 2009).
In this research, I am going to use the unstructured interviews. The unstructured interview is the one who usually does not restrict the researcher and the respondents on the type of answers and questions to be presented. The unstructured interviews usually have the open-ended questions which enable it to gather as much information as possible (McLeod, 2014).The unstructured interview also is easy to conduct and so the questions might be twisted and even manipulated as per the respondents capabilities.The process is also important because it ensures that there is the generation of enough qualitative information through the use of the open-ended questions.The method is also advantageous because it ensures that there are clarity and confidentiality in the answers offered because of the process of generating the answers.
The Interview Questions
Based on the type of the study I want to conduct, there are various questions which I would ask various police officers so as to determine the relationship between the levels of arrogance and the job satisfaction and the job hazards presented. These are some of the questions I would ask in the interviews:
Do you like your job as a police officer?
Given the chance, would you quit this job as a police officer and do something different?
Are you satisfied with your salary?
Do you get free time for you family and even your own personal time?
What are some of the challenges that you face as a police officer?
Do you get adequate time with your family?
How do the top officials in your department address the challenges you face as a police officer?
Have you ever been presented with a challenging task which made you regret why you joined the police force?
Do your job affect your temperament towards other people, both at home and the general public?
What do reforms you think are the most important to drive the police force towards the customer-service related cases?
The choice of the questions I would be asking would be primary to decide and even derive the relationship between the job satisfaction, and the job hazards, as well as the various police officers, cases of arrogance to the general public and even their families.The choice of the questions would also be based on the availability and the nature of the officer's temperament.
Advantages of Qualitative Data –Gathering Strategy
The qualitative data gathering strategy is presented with various advantages when doing research. The research method ensures that there is deep information presented on the issue being discussed. In many cases, the qualitative data-gathering strategy does not limit the interviews being conducted and so it ensures that the respondent and the interviewer have a wide range of questions to cover and even analyze (Sullivan &Sargeant, 2011).
The strategy also gives the researcher the opportunity to alter the organization of the questions, which ensures that the questions asked are not rigid and can be manipulated to suit the level of conversation. The information gathered is also based on the level of human experience and so, the information is ideal for a greater application in various fields. The study also bases its qualities on the positivity of the study, which tries to avoid complexity and elusiveness in the general study.The study gives a clear guideline which shows the basis of the study and the general study expectations. The data obtained can also be transferred to another set for analysis (James, 2007).
Importance of consent and confidentiality when conducting a survey
There are various advantages of having the consent and the confidentiality when conducting research. The system allows for the recognition of sovereignty of all the research members.The informed consent is very important since it offers prior and clear information on the risks as well as the benefits which are involved in the study, for the participants to make a clear and independent decision on whether to join the study or not (Corti et al., 2000).
The consent ability offers the participants the chance to withdraw their participation and contribution to the case, based on the legality of the research fraternity. The process should offer a continuous flow of information between the researcher and the respondents based on the keeping of their confidentiality, for them to be able to make a healthy voluntary decision on whether to participate in the activity or not.
The issue of confidentiality and privacy f all participants should be ensured, The participants should be given the chance to make their choice on whether to give certain information to someone else, which they consider private without being victimized or threatened. The process should also be able to offer the confidentiality of the information the participants offer to the researcher. This should be ensured through the use of codes to label the information offered by various individuals’ instead of using he person’s name.The success of the whole project should also be ensured through the use of the participants first names, or even a nickname so as to ensure the confidentiality of the people is ensured (National Longitudinal Surveys, 2012).
References
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Corti, L., Day, A., and Backhouse, G., (2000), Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives, Volume 1, No. 3, Art. 7 – December 2000 (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1024/2207)
James, P., (2007), Qualitative Data Collection (http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/15565_Chapter_4.pdf)
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National Longitudinal Surveys, (2012), Confidentiality & Informed Consent, Retrieved from https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy79/intro-to-the-sample/confidentiality-informed-consent
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