The theoretical frameworks of turnover intention and public service motivation supported the research. The study was completed using a phenomenological design to elicit the lived experience of 21 retired and active police officers using face-to-face and telephonic interviews. This qualitative study investigated turnover intention and its influence on the public service motivation of U.S. I also discuss issues of trustworthiness and how matters of objectivity and reliability can be addressed within the naturalistic paradigm. Herein, I share the sources of information that I did find and the methods that I used to address these challenges. Some authors even confirmed my own experience that few published studies described processes such as coding and methods to evaluate interrater reliability. While my text books explained the general philosophies of the interpretive tradition and its theoretical groundings, I found few published studies where authors actually explained the details pertaining to exactly how they arrived at their findings. One of the first challenges I encountered was the dearth of information regarding the details of qualitative data analysis. I focused on the challenges that I experienced as a first-time qualitative researcher during the course of my dissertation, in the hope that how I addressed those difficulties will better prepare other investigators planning endeavors into this area of research. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of some of the principles of data analysis used in qualitative research such as coding, interrater reliability, and thematic analysis.
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