Work flexibility and incentives (Management)

Example Coding for Topic One: Work flexibility and incentives (Management)

Written by Rachele Wilson

Note: This is an example of thematic analysis used on one response to one question in an interview. You will need to go through the entire interview for each participant, multiple times, to discover all of the themes, subthemes and categories, revising and defining the themes each time.

Coding legend:  Keep track of the colours you use to indicate different themes

• (Theme) Job satisfaction
  • (sub-theme) workplace environment  Indicate the structure of the themes
    • (category) office space
    • (category) parking space
• (Theme) Job satisfaction
  • (sub-theme) opportunities
    • (category) training workshops

Q1. Are you happy in your job?

P2 – I love my job. All the people are so nice to talk to and super friendly. I get my own office which is great, some people have to sit in what we call the chicken coop! It’s this room they have where it’s open plan and there are like six people crammed into this tiny workspace I couldn’t do it cause the noise would be too much. Can you imagine trying to have a phone call in there? I mean you couldn’t really do it. But yeah I have my own office which is great. Sometimes I wonder if they resent us cause we’re in the same department [HR consulting] and on the same pay level but then they got put in this new office and the older staff don’t seem too happy about it. Oh I also have a car park which is great and I love what I do cause I get to work on the training side of things. So I help design and implement training workshops for other companies which is heaps of fun. I really enjoy running them, you get to go out of the office and into another workplace and meet new people it’s so great.

Summary table (for results section of the report)

Table 1 Summary of themes, sub-themes and categories identified from interview data.