Class Activity 1: Answers

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1. An applied researcher wants to increase the performance of organizational members in a particular bank.

Answer:

Dependent Variable: Performance of organizational members Why?

Because dependent variable is the variable of primary interest to the researcher.

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2. Cross cultural research indicates that managerial values govern the power distance between superiors and subordinates.

Answer: IV DV Managerial
Values

Power distance between superiors and subordinates

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3. A manager believes that good supervision and training would increase the production level of the workers.

Answer: IV

Good DV supervision and training

Production level of workers

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4. A marketing manager wonders why the recent advertisement strategy does not work.

Answer: Dependent variable: Advertisement strategy

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5. A manger finds that off-the-job classroom training has a great impact on the productivity of the employees in her department. However, she also observes that employees over 60 years of age do not seem to derive much benefit and do not improve with such training.

Answer: IV
Off-the-job DV class room training
Unwillingnes s of employees over 60 years of age to pursue

Productivit y of employees

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MV

6 Failure to follow accounting principles cause immense confusion, which in turn creates a number of problems for the organization. Those with vast experience in bookkeeping, however, are able to avert the problems by taking timely corrective action.

Answer: IV DV
Failure to follow accounting principles Correcti ve action

Int.V
No. of accounting problems

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MV

Expertise in bookkeep ing

7. A consultant is of the opinion that much benefit would accrue by buying and selling at the appropriate times in a financial environment where the stocks are volatile.

Answer: IV DV
Volatility of stocks

Buying and selling of stocks

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8. The manager of Haines Company observes that the morale of employees in her company is low. She thinks that if their working conditions are improved, pay scales raised, and the vacation benefits made attractive, the morale will be boosted. She doubts, however , if an increase of pay scales would raise the morale of all employees. Her conjecture is that those that have supplemental incomes will just not be turned on by higher pay, and only those without side incomes will be happy increased pay with resultant boost.

Int. V Vacation
benefits

conditions

IVs Working DV

Morale of employee s

Pay scales Suppleme ntal income

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Reference

Sekaran, Uma. (2006) Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach. 4th Edn. New Delhi, India: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. UK.

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