Title
Trusted Advisor Relationships of Executive Women in the corporate world, the Phenomenological Approach and Beyond
Location
1052
Format Type
Event
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2018
End Date
January 2018
Abstract
Trusted Advisor Relationships of Executive Women in the corporate world, the Phenomenological Approach and Beyond
Since the 1980’s the value and benefits of mentoring to individuals and to the corporate world have become increasingly recognized. The trusted advisor has emerged as the latest prototype in the evolution of the coaching/mentoring pantheon. Following the Moustakas phenomenological model, nine corporate female executives were screened, selected and interviewed regarding the experience of having had a trusted advisor. Study results were achieved through completing the step by step analytical process advocated by Moustakas. It was during the phenomenological reduction stage of analysis that the continued reduction of the data became an unexpectedly challenging issue, increasingly confusing to the researcher. Part of this confusion came from recognizing that in keeping with the Moustakas model, considerable extremely interesting information collected incidentally from the women's interviews, but not concurrent with the original research question, became less relevant and was not included in the resulting final determination of the essence of the phenomena.
The next step then was to take the information from the Moustakas model analysis a step beyond pure phenomenological results and to incorporate those results into an expanded, more generic qualitative approach. Starting with what was learned phenomenologically, several additional themes emerged. This paper focuses on the experience of the primary investigator in completing the commitment to the original phenomenological model and the lessons learned in the process of the further exploration and incorporation of the additional elements discovered into an expanded approach.
Trusted Advisor Relationships of Executive Women in the corporate world, the Phenomenological Approach and Beyond
1052
Trusted Advisor Relationships of Executive Women in the corporate world, the Phenomenological Approach and Beyond
Since the 1980’s the value and benefits of mentoring to individuals and to the corporate world have become increasingly recognized. The trusted advisor has emerged as the latest prototype in the evolution of the coaching/mentoring pantheon. Following the Moustakas phenomenological model, nine corporate female executives were screened, selected and interviewed regarding the experience of having had a trusted advisor. Study results were achieved through completing the step by step analytical process advocated by Moustakas. It was during the phenomenological reduction stage of analysis that the continued reduction of the data became an unexpectedly challenging issue, increasingly confusing to the researcher. Part of this confusion came from recognizing that in keeping with the Moustakas model, considerable extremely interesting information collected incidentally from the women's interviews, but not concurrent with the original research question, became less relevant and was not included in the resulting final determination of the essence of the phenomena.
The next step then was to take the information from the Moustakas model analysis a step beyond pure phenomenological results and to incorporate those results into an expanded, more generic qualitative approach. Starting with what was learned phenomenologically, several additional themes emerged. This paper focuses on the experience of the primary investigator in completing the commitment to the original phenomenological model and the lessons learned in the process of the further exploration and incorporation of the additional elements discovered into an expanded approach.
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