INTERVIEW MEANING AND TYPE MEANING OF INTERVIEW The

• INTERVIEW: MEANING AND TYPE • MEANING OF INTERVIEW. • The word interview comes from the latin and middle French words meaning to “see between” or “see each other”. • Generally an interview means a private meeting between people when questions are asked answered. • The person who asked the questions of an interview is called the interviewer. • The person who answers the questions of an interview is called the interviewee. • • DEFINATION OF INTERVIEW. • According to Thill and Bovee, “an interview is any planned conversation with a specific purpose involving two or more people”.

• • • • TYPES OF INTERVIEW. 1) PERSONAL INTERVIEWS: personal interview includes * selection of employees * promotion of employees * retirement and resignation of the employee. 2)EVALUATION INTERVIEWS. The interviews which takes place annually to review the progress of the interviewee is called the evaluation interview. it naturally occurs between the superior and the subordinate, these kind of meetings are usually held to evaluate the performance of the employee. 3) PERSUASIVE INTERVIEWS. This type of interview is designed to sell someone a product or an idea. usually sales representatives use this method where they persuasive the target customer to buy their product. 4)STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. Structured interviews tend to follow formal procedures; the interviewer follows a predetermined agenda or questions. 5)UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. When the interviewer does not follow the formal rules and procedures it is then called an unstructured interview , the discussion will be free flowing and may rapidly change from one subject to another. .

• • • • 6) COUNCELING INTERVIEWS. This may be held to find out what has been troubling the worker and why someone has not been working. 7) DISCIPLINARY INTERVIEWS. Disciplinary interviews occur when the employee has been accused of breaching the organizations rules and procedure. 8)STRESS INTERVIEWS. It is designed in order to place the interviewee in a stressfull situation in order to observe the interviewees reaction to the situation. 9) PUBLIC INTERVIEWS. In the conversational interview, no predetermined questions are asked, in order to remain as open and adaptable a possible to the interviewees nature and priorities. furing the interviewer goes with the flow. 10) GENERAL INTERVIEW GUIDE APPROACH. The guide approach is intended to ensure that the same general areas of information are collected from each interviewee , this provides more focus that the conventional approach but still allows a degree of freedom and adaptability in getting the information from the interviewee. 11)STANDARDIZED OR OPEN-ENDED INTERVIEW. Here the same open-ended questions are asked to all the interviewees ; this approach facilitates faster interviews. 12) CLOSED OR FIXED- RESPONSE INTERVIEW. It is an interview where all the interviewers ask the same questions and asked to choose answers from among the same set of alternatives. This format is useful for those not practised in interview

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