MGT1005 Research Methods and Statistics

I have looked over your scenarios from MGT1000 and MGT1003. Here are some possible hypotheses I came up with that you might want to consider using/modifying:

1. Most people believe that an employee with a medical condition should be terminated if a reasonable accommodation cannot be made without undue hardship to the company.

2. Most people believe that an employee diagnosed with PTSD should be accommodated in the workplace as long as s/he can perform the essential job responsibilities.

3. Most people believe that using an employer’s proprietary information and property for personal use should be terminated.

4. Most people believe that if an employee used their company’s proprietary information and property for personal use s/he should be retrained in the company’s code of ethics and given a second chance.

5. Most people believe that teams fail due to poor communication on the part of the leader.

6. Most people believe that employees over 40 should receive appropriate ongoing job related training to keep their skills up to date so they can continue to be a valuable asset to the company.

7. Most people believe that a company romance with a supervisor that ends badly can prevent the employee from being promoted.

8. Most people believe that a company romance that ends badly can lead to allegations of a hostile work environment.

9. Most people believe that a company romance that ends badly can lead to allegations of a sexual harassment.

10. Most people believe that when an employee is accused of sexual harassment he or she should not be fired if there is no evidence to back it up.

11. Most people believe body tattoos are not protected under the Civil Rights Act for religious discrimination.

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MGT1005 Research Methods and Statistics Project: Conducting Primary Research

Project Assignment — is due on ___________ . Late submissions are subject to the maximum grade of a “C” and possibly other penalties.

Directions to Students: By now you have explored a scenario that posed a problem in at least one of your management courses (MGT1000 Values and Ethics in the Business Environment or MGT1003 Supervisory Management). In this project, you will conduct primary research to support or refute evidence that you found during your exploration of the issues surrounding your scenario. No other coursework may be used for this project. You will now apply the processes of conducting primary research that you have learned in this class. Your investigation should follow the format that is outlined below. Before starting this project, your instructor must review your work from the written project in MGT1000 or MGT1003. You should provide your instructor with a folder containing the following documents during the second week of class: 1. A copy of the scoring rubric from your MGT100/MGT1003 project; 2.Your revised MGT1000/MGT1003 project based on the scoring rubric. 3. Your original BBA Tracking Sheet signed by your MGT1000/MGT1003 instructor. 4. A copy of your scenario from MGT1000/MGT1003. Please make sure you keep a copy of all documents submitted to your instructor. Also, you should make sure you keep all of your drafts and research from your MGT1000/MGT1003 in a safe place as you will need this in MGT1006. Please take a moment to review the scoring rubric for this project to ensure you understand the criteria for how your project will be graded.

IMPORTANT: You will not be permitted to take the MGT1006 capstone course that you need in order to graduate unless this project receives a passing grade and you receive a passing grade on other course requirements. Please see your instructor immediately if you do not have either your MGT1000 or MGT1003 project.

Research Project Assignment Receiving F Grade

Your Research Project Assignment will be scored by a rubric. If your Research Project Assignment does not receive a passing score, you will receive a failing grade for the class. However, your instructor may recommend you for intersession assistance if he/she determines that you have grasped the essential concepts of the course, as demonstrated by adequate progress in other assessments performed in the course. The cost of this intersession assistance is $135 for two tutoring sessions. In order to qualify for this assistance, you will need to sign a contract that explains the requirements in detail along with a submittal date that is prior to the beginning of the following term. The maximum grade that you can receive if you go through the tutoring sessions and submit a passing project is a “C” grade. A Failing Research Project Assignment that has been revised will not be accepted unless the student has demonstrated fulfillment of the contract.

Part I: The Issue: You must have the following information in this section:

1. In your own words, summarize the scenario and identify the problems within the scenario. Provide some background information.

2. Justify why it is an important issue for managers and supervisors to be knowledgeable about and the consequences of failing to handle the issue timely and appropriately.

3. Restate your conclusion from your secondary research.

Part II: Research Purpose: What is the purpose of the research you will be conducting? Are you further exploring evidence you found as a result of conducting your secondary research? Are you discovering information about what other groups think concerning your project? Are you hoping to support the information that you found? Research can be done for a variety of reasons and purposes. Use creativity in thinking about how you can support or refute your secondary research.

Part III: Hypothesis and Survey Design: State your hypothesis. What do you think you will find as the result of your research?

Design your research experiment: From understanding the various ways that you can conduct research select one or more methods. In this project, you must develop a survey, but you can also select and use additional research methods. Identify the population that you have selected for research and specific characteristics of this population. Explain in detail the process of creating your survey – For example: how was your sample frame selected, what did you have to do to create the online survey, explain how you collected and organized your data, what types of questions did you use, what are the advantages/disadvantages of the question type you chose, etc. You must use all of the required statistical terminologies as outlined in the Additional Required Information section below. See the Survey Design section below on help with composing your survey questions

Part IV: Summary of Data — Charts and Graphs: Summarize your data in charts and graphs for each survey question asked. Describe your findings using statistical methods such as frequency distributions, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and identify four links between collected data. You must calculate the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and five-number summary for at least one question. The calculations and formulas must be attached to your report and referred to in your paper as Exhibit A. Reminder: In order to use the mean and standard deviation your response categories must be numerical, not categorical. To fulfill this requirement, a good question to use is “What is your age?” You must use all of the required statistical terminologies as outlined in the Additional Required Information section below.

Interpret your data: What do the measures indicate? What did you learn from the data? Were there any trends or relationships you observed? For example: Analyze your population’s demographic characteristics. Your discussion should explain whether or not your population is accurately represented in your data. Show how your standard deviation, five-number summary, mean, and median calculations apply to the age demographic. Hint: Apply the 68—95—99.7 Rule (Chapter 13 in your textbook) for normal distributions to your data.

Part V: Conclusion: Summarize what you have found; does the information you collected support what you expected to find. How did you consider the opinion of others? Does your hypothesis support or refute your point of view? Do you think that your findings are accurate or could there be bias involved or other problems that could influence both the accuracy and reliability of the data? For example, in reviewing your survey, were your response variables to questions designed thoroughly enough to cover a broad range of potential preferences of individuals.

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Survey Design

General Information:

1. Your survey must contain a minimum of five (5) demographic questions and five (5) categorical questions (scenario/topic related questions).

2. There must be a minimum of four (4) possible responses for each multiple-choice question. If you use “All of the above” or “None of the above” you must have four (4) other responses for your participants to choose from. You are limited to one (1) yes/no response question OR one (1) true/false response question.

3. If you are using an online survey website that allows you to create questions where the respondent can choose multiple response answers, you need to ensure that your question allows for this. You should also ensure that ALL of your survey questions are required to be answered.

4. You must proofread your survey to ensure that your introduction, questions, and response variables are grammatically correct, and have no spelling, capitalization, or punctuation errors.

Survey Questions:

1. You need to be creative in developing your survey questions to ensure that they are designed to give you data to help support your hypothesis.

2. Make sure your survey questions match your research objectives. When developing your questions, ask yourself these two questions: How does this question relate to my scenario? How does this question relate to the decision I made in my secondary research project?

3. Try to develop an ability to think like your potential respondents. If you can effectively consider how your research participants will interpret and react to each question on your survey, then your resulting data is likely to provide useful information.

4. Use language that is understandable to the type of respondents whom you are targeting. Consider the age of your respondents, their educational level, and any other relevant cultural characteristics of your respondents when deciding how to phrase your questions.

5. Avoid biased questions. This type of question may contain biased terminology or are worded in such a way that they are slanted to a particular answer. Your questions should be neutral so that the respondent can think their own thoughts about the question.

6. Feel free to use open-ended questions (a person can answer any way they want). Keep in mind that this type of question can be hard and time-consuming to analyze. However, you may get some good ideas from the responses that can help make your project more interesting.

7. Organize your survey questions in a logical sequence. For example, put all of your demographic questions first; then, put your topic questions in order from a general topic question to a more specific topic question sequence.

Survey Question Answers:

1. Make sure you have the most common answers available.

2. Try to avoid neutral answers (such as "don't care" or “don’t know”) because people may choose them so they don't have to think about the answer.

3. It can be helpful to have an “other” category in case none of the choices are satisfactory for the person answering the question.

4. Make sure each question is set up so you will be able to present the answers the way you want. Example: Having 5-6 response categories makes a nice display for a bar graph or pie chart; having more than six response categories can make for unsightly, confusing graphs, especially pie charts.

Survey Responses:

1. You must have a minimum of twenty-five (25) responses to your survey.

2. You must prepare a graph exhibiting the results for each question in your survey.

Additional Required Information

Your project MUST contain the following statistical terminology:

Please note that you may also use these statistical terms in other sections of your project; however, they MUST be in the sections noted above.

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Hi,

My name is “CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR NAME”. As part of my MGT1005, Research Methods and Statistics course, I am required to conduct primary research on my assigned topic, which is “CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR TOPIC”. I have developed a short survey to collect data on my topic, which I hope will help me support my hypothesis. I would sincerely appreciate your help in the data collection process by completing my survey. It should take you no longer than 5 minutes to complete. Your responses will be kept confidential. Thank you for your time, consideration and honesty.

Very truly yours,

“CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR NAME”

Demographic Questions: You must have a minimum of 5 demographic questions in your survey; however, you can have a maximum of 7 demographic questions if you think it will benefit your survey outcome. Do not edit the demographic questions at all!!! (You MUST have the gender, age, and education demographic questions. In addition, choose 3 other demographic questions that will have an impact on your hypothesis – I would suggest that you use the first 5 demographic questions below!!!)

What is your gender?

Male

Female

How old are you?

What is your highest level of education?

Grammar School

Junior High School

High School or GED

Trade School

Associate’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Doctorate Degree

Are you employed?

Yes – Full Time – Wage Earner

Yes – Full Time – Homemaker

Yes – Part Time – Year-round

Yes – Seasonal Job

No – Full or Part-Time Student

No – Unemployed

No – Retired

What position do you have in your company’s organizational chart? (If you are not currently employed at the moment, please use your last place of employment as a point of reference when answering the question. If you have never been employed, please choose “Not Applicable” as your answer.)

Self-employed (Own your own business)

Professional/Technical (Accountant, Attorney, Broker, Software/Web Design, etc.)

Upper Management (Executive, President, Vice President, CEO, CFO, Treasurer, Director, etc.)

Middle Manager (Department Heads: Accounting, Human Resources, IT, etc.)

Supervisor (Payroll, Office Facilities, Accounts Payable or Receivable, etc.)

Staff (Secretary, Clerk, Mailroom, Sales Rep, Cashier, Teller, Stock Clerk, Receptionist, etc.)

Tradesman/Machine Operator/Laborer

Other

Not Applicable

Which of the following best describes you?

White/Caucasion

Black/African American

Hispanic Origin

Asian or Pacific Islander

Native American/Alaskan Native

Other

What religious faith do you practice?

Christian (Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Pentecostal, Episcopalian, Methodist, etc.)

Judaism

Buddhism

Hindu

Muslim

Agnostic (Doubtful or uncertain about the existence of God)

Atheist (One who does not believe in the existence of God)

Other

None

What is your United States residency status?

Citizen (born in the U.S.)

Naturalized Citizen (became a citizen but was born in another country)

Green Card

Work Permit

Visa

Illegal alien

Other

What is your marital status?

Single – never been married

Single – with children

Single – separated/divorced

Single – widow/widower

Married – no children

Married – with children

What sector do you work in? (If you are not currently employed at the moment, please use your last place of employment as a point of reference when answering the question. If you have never been employed, please choose “Not Applicable” as your answer.)

Government (Federal, State, City, local offices or Military)

Private Business (Example: healthcare, banking, sales, food service, fashion industries, wholesale/retail, communications, etc.)

Not for Profit (Charitable organizations, museum, library, religious entity, etc.)

Education

Not Applicable

Approximately how many employees, including yourself, work in your organization across all locations? (If you are not currently employed at the moment, please use your last place of employment as a point of reference when answering the question. If you have never been employed, please choose “Not Applicable” as your answer.)

1

2 to 4

5 to 9

10 to 19

20 to 99

100 to 499

500+

Not Applicable

What is your total household income, including all earners in your household?

Below $20,000

$21,000 – $30,999

$31,000 – $40,999

$41,000 – $50,999

$51,000 – $60,999

$61,000 – $70,999

$71,000 and above

INSERT 5 TOPIC QUESTIONS THAT WILL HELP YOU SUPPORT YOUR HYPOTHESIS AND CONCLUSION IN YOUR SECONDARY RESEARCH PROJECT.

Keep in mind that when you are asking questions about what happens on the job you need to take into account individuals who are not employed at the moment. At the end of such a question, you should put in ( ) the following : (If you are not currently employed at the moment, please use your last place of employment as a point of reference when answering the question. If you have never been employed, please choose “Not Applicable” as your answer.) Make sure that Not Applicable is one of the answers the respondent can choose from. See examples above in demographic questions.

YOUR LAST QUESTION: State your hypothesis

Strongly agree

Agree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

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Should a person with a disability who fails to perform the essential functions of the job be fired?

What would be your action as a manager if a highly skilled employee with a disability refuses reasonable accommodation?

Have you ever experienced an injury on the job?

What would be your action as a manager if a highly skilled employee with a disability refuses reasonable accommodation?

How long would you give an employee to agree to mandatory safety training before terminating them?

Most people believe that any employee who refuses to take mandatory safety training should be fired for posing a potential danger to the public.

Having to comply with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) rules and regulations makes it harder for companies to run their business?

Most people believe that the Occupational Safety & Health Administration rules and regulations regarding protective clothing are mandatory, and they overrule the company's dress code policy as well as ADA rules and regulations.

Is it ethical to enforce a dress code that would compromise one's religion?

What law covers religious discrimination?

Have you ever been discriminated against in the workplace because of the way you dress?

What is reasonable accommodation?

Most people believe that religious attire is not a reason to terminate or relocate an employee

What is whistleblowing?

What motivates a whistleblower?

Who is a whistleblower?

Which government body protects the whistleblower?

Most people believe that whistleblowing will eliminate fraud in the workplace

What do you consider stealing from the company?

What would you do if you witnessed an employee stealing from the company?

What should be the penalty/punishment for stealing from the company?

Most people believe that using their company's database for personal gain is not unethical.

Most people will believe that employees who violate the company code of conduct should be terminated

What is a company code of ethics used for?

Accepting modest gifts for doing your job well is wrong.

What type of gift would be appropriate for an employee to accept in the workplace?

What employee action might be a violation of a company’s code of ethics?

Have you ever witness sexual harassment in the workplace?

Do you think people always report sexual harassment in the workplace?

Do you think wearing revealing clothing gives someone the right to be disrespectful?

Most people believe that women are more often victims of sexual harassment than men.

From the list below choose the action(s) that best describes stealing from a company.

Would you report a co-worker if you caught them punching in/out for a friend?

From the list below, what should be the penalty/punishment for punching in/out for a fellow co-worker?

Most people believe that having a coworker clocking someone else's timecard is stealing from the company.

Can an Employer Ask an Applicant Health Related Questions During an Interview?

Companies Must Provide Accommodations For a Disabled Person.

Must a candidate disclose a disability to an employer?

Companies must provide accommodations for a disabled person

Is HIV/AIDS considered a disability?

Most people believe an employer should hire a disabled person if they qualify for the job they apply for

Do you think alcoholism is a disability under the ADA?

Have you ever consumed alcohol on the job?

Most people believe that workers suffering from alcoholism should be accommodated under the ADA

Most people believe that Sexual Harassment is hard to prove

Have you ever been sexually harassed?

Working in teams gets the task/project done faster and expands the knowledge within the team.

Working in diverse groups can benefit both the company and the individual.

From the list below what is the BEST advantages of working in a team.

From the list below what is the BIGGEST Disadvantages of working in a team

Most people believe poor communication is the main reason why teams fail.

If a company has a job opening for a specific position, all qualified individuals are allowed to apply

When can a company ask an employee to take a medical exam?

Would you hire a well-qualified employee regardless of their disability?

Most people believe that employees with a disability should be accommodated in the workplace

If you have ever experienced any form of sexual harassment please indicate the option that most closely relates to you?

I have not experienced any sexual harassment

Stalking – online or physically

Unwanted touching

What is the definition of workplace sexual harassment?

Nonconsensual physical contact at the workplace.

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that affect’s an individual’s employment, interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

If you ever did fall victim to sexual harassment within the workplace, who would you contact first?

Most people believe that if there is evidence of sexual harassment that an employee should be terminated?

Would you share your password with your co-worker to give them confidential company information?

Most people believe that it is unethical for an employee to grant a fellow co-worker access to a company’s confidential database; and, the co-worker that uses the data for personal gain has created a conflict of interest

Would you falsify financial data if you were afraid of losing your job because the company’s profits were failing?

FALSIFYING A COMPANY FINANCIAL DATA IS

WHAT LAW COVERS FALSIFYING COMPANY FINANCIAL DATA?

What is the maximum punishment for falsifying a company's financial documents

MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT AN EMPLOYEE WHO FALSIFIES COMPANY FINACIAL DATA SHOULD BE TERMINATED.

Sharing confidential company information is

All employees should have access to confidential information

If a co-worker asked, I would give them my password so they could access confidential company information to use for their personal benefit

Customer's personal information should be kept

Most people believe an employee who gives access to confidential company data to another employee to use for personal gain should be fired

Most people believe that a disabled candidate should be hired if they meet all the essential job qualifications with an accommodation

Who is a "qualified individual with a disability"?

When can an employer ask a job applicant if they have a disability?

Can an employer withdraw an offer from an applicant with a disability?

Can an employer change the essential job specifications for an applicant with a disability?

Most people believe that a disabled candidate should be hired if they meet all the essential job qualifications with an accommodation.

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Adonis Duran

Plaza College

MGT1003 Section 8 – Supervisory Management

Professor Aicha Cesar

Spring 2022

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