Class Activity 1: Answers

State the variable/s and diagram the relationships (if there is any).

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.

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

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

• Answer:

IV DVGood supervision

and trainingProduction level

of workers

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

Answer:

Dependent variable: Advertisement strategy

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 DV

MV

Off-the-job class room training

Productivity of employees

Unwillingness of employees over 60 years of age

to pursue training

No. of accounting problems

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 Int.V DV

MV

Failure to follow accounting principles

Corrective action

Expertise in bookkeeping

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 stocksBuying and selling

of stocks

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.

IVs DV Int. V

Working

conditions

Morale of employees

Supplemental income

Vacation benefits

Pay scales

Reference

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