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rst section of the book makes an exhaustive review on the basics of qualitative research, evaluation, and assessment of methods. The second section is helpful because it contains sixteen articles that illustrate the various qualitative research types, including the interpretive research, which is the perspective chosen by the proposed biographical research on servant leadership.

Roberts, B. (2002) Biographical Research. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Roberts' book investigates the various theoretical and methodological developments of biographical research. He addresses the use of biographical research in several fields and in different qualitative traditions such as in ethnography, biography, narrative analysis, sociology, and oral history. Provided in his book are examples and illustrations from his previous work and other relevant studies. Roberts's book will be helpful to this proposed biographical research on servant leadership because it tackles important topics such as data collection, data interpretation, the do's and don'ts when it comes to interviews, narrative construction, and audience concerns.

Rubin, H. & Rubin, I. (2005). Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Rubin and Rubin (2005) advocate using the semi-structured interview in their book Qualitative Interviewing. According to the authors, this interview method offers flexibility and freedom to the researcher by allowing him to probe the interviewee with follow-up questions or clarifications and derive richer and more meaningful insight on the studied phenomenon. This is not made possible when a structured interview is used. Semi-structured interviews, also referred to as 'responsive interviewing' is the chosen method of data collection for this proposed study on servant leadership. This book informs the research on interview techniques such as how to design questions that will ensure follow-up, clarificatory, and probing questions.

测量与分析——Measurements and Analysis

Golafshani, N. (2003). Understanding reliability and validity in qualitative research. The Qualitative Report, 8 (4), 597-607.

This article provides an excellent discussion on the concept of reliability and validity when it pertains to qualitative research. Golafshani introduces how these concepts have been exhaustively established in quantitative studies but not in qualitative studies. He makes a 'redefinition' of reliability and validity in terms of the quantitative approach and discusses in particular the triangulation strategy which will strengthen the integrity of a qualitative research project. This article is helpful to the purpose of this study because it aids in justifying the use of the triangulation as a method of establishing reliability for this interpretive biography.

Krippendorf, K. (2004). Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This book allows for a comprehensive discussion of the content analysis, its theories and applications. Krippendorf's book provides this researcher with sufficient information to carry out content analysis, which is the proposed mode of analysis for this interpretive biographical research on servant leadership. The book starts with a historical, logical, and conceptual overview on content analysis as used in quali