Applied Managerial Decision Making
MGMT600-1301B-03
Phase 3 individual project
Rocklyn Kee
Colorado Technical University Online
Professor Donald Pratl
March 11, 2013
There are 500 employees in the sales force of Company W that are spread out over Southeast, Northeast, West, and Central regions. The company has recently incorporated a new software program in and attempt to monitor how many sales are generated by each employee. It is expected that each month each region should sell the same aamount of products. It has been noted that over the last three months however that this expectation has only been reached by half of the employees in each region. Before a decision can be made on possible theories as to why this is, some
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There will be no formulated statements from non-parametric analysis in regard to the information that is presented by the researcher. The ANOVA, (analysis of variation) is a commomlly used method of non-parametric. The researcher does an analysis with the ANOVA to see if there is a differentation among groups, and if the mean of them are the same. With a null hypothesis the ANOVA will determine if the information that has been presented has the same means, while with the alternative hypothesis it will determine if the information has defferent means. CTU Online, (2013)
There is a one way method and a two way method for an ANOVA analysis that can be used by the researcher. There is only one factor for the researcher to test for equality of the presented information in the one way method, and the two way mwthod allows for distinguishing if there may be another factor. * Chi-Square Distribution Use
Two types of information can typically be generarted when variables have no pattern, categorical or numerical. Researchers’ employ using the chi-square distribution in order to unmask the distinctions and to see if they are independent. Categorical variables are specific variables with no fixed numerical value, and numerical type variables are numerical. In this
What is an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)? Describe when a researcher would use this test. Compare and contrast the use of a t test versus an ANOVA.
After reading this book, I realized that I already use a lot of the things that Focazio focuses on. I decided I would use this assignment to reveal what I do when I’m not being a fulltime student. Since I can remember, I was raised to be a super hero. I was raised in a life where magic wasn’t a myth and extraordinary powers were a common everyday thing. I decided to go through things in the book I liked a lot and relate them to things I’ve learned from becoming the hero that I am today. I’ll begin with Focazio’s first of the three keys to unlock the problem of job dissatisfaction. You have to have fun to become successful. Being a superhero isn’t all the hype it’s made up to be. There is a lot of hard work that goes into training
The chi-square tests were developed by Karl Pearson— the "Pearson Correlation" There are two chi-square procedures discussed in this class. Both of them have two names. The first is called the goodness-of-fit chi-square test, or alternatively the 1 × k (said "one by kay") chi-square. Tanner, D. E., & Youssef–Morgan, C. M. (2013). A chi-square goodness of fit test allows us to test whether hypothesized proportions differ from the observed proportions for a categorical variable. In other words, the chi-square test tells us whether there is a large difference between expected and collected numbers. After testing to see if there is a large difference will tells us if there is something causing a significant change. If it is a large difference we will reject the null hypothesis. Moreover, if the scores are too close they are the same. To use the number we find, we refer to the degrees of freedom, usually labeled as df for short, and is defined for the chi-square as the number of categories minus 1. Due to the nature of the chi-square test, you will always use the number of categories minus 1 to find the degrees of freedom. The reason this is done is because there is an assumption that your sample data is biased, and this helps shift your scores to allow for
Analysis of variance is a statistical method used to test differences between two or more means. ANOVA is used to test general rather than specific differences among means. An ANOVA conducted on a design in which there is only one factor is called a one-way ANOVA. The One-Way ANOVA is considered an omnibus test because it indicates whether or not there are any significant differences in the means between any of the groups. However, it does not indicate which mean are different. The One-way ANOVA compares the means of the samples or groups to make inferences about the population means. The one-way ANOVA, two kinds of variables: independent and dependent. Also, the one-way ANOVA is used to determine whether there are any statistically
Researchers or research teams who elect a quantitative study are going to determine the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable within a population (Babbie, E.R., 2010). There are two types of quantitative study designs: descriptive and experimental. A descriptive design typically measures the subject once and establishes the association between the independent and dependent variables (Mujis, D, 2010). An experimental design measures the subject before and after a treatment and establishes causality between the variables (Brians, C.L. et al, 2011).
One Way ANOVA is used to check if there is any significant various among the means of 3 or more unlinked groups. It fundamentally tests
Management is the process of getting tasks done through the use of people. Through management decisions, our team will have one of the leading coffee shops within the BizCafe simulation. Within the management aspect of the company, we must first look at human capital, which are the skills, values, and overall output of an employee and the price at which these facets are worth. The managers of The Grind must delegate tasks through the serving staff of our company. The servers are the face of The Grind, meaning that it will be the servers who will interact to build strong customer relations with the guests of The Grind. However, there should be an efficient number of servers working on the clock at any given time throughout the day; The Grind should strive to always be properly staffed. If the shop is understaffed, customers will experience longer wait times, rushed customer interactions, and an overall subordinate experience; however, if the shop is overstaffed, each individual employee is most likely to give less production, and more importantly, our shop’s payroll will be out of proportion, meaning we will be spending too much money on labor. Wages also effect overall production from the employees. If we pay our servers too little, compared to the competition, we are likely to see less production, unhappy employees, and a large turnover rate. On the other hand, if we pay our servers too much, we risk blowing our weekly labor cap if our sales do not exceed the
1The purpose of this paper is to perform a chi-square analysis after watching the assigned video. Data taken from a given table will be entered on the SPSS data set with intend to obtain an output. The cross-tabulation table will be highlighted in the output document. Then the highlighted output will be submitted to the instructor.
C. The chi-square statistic is based on (r-1)(c-1) degrees of freedom where r a nd c denote,
SALES BUDGET: Budgeted unit sales Selling price per unit Total Sales April 65,000 10 650,000 May 100,000 10 1,000,000 June 50,000 10 500,000
Frumherj is a car inspection company in Iceland. They are one of the largest in the country, but they want to continue to grow and to outpace their competitors. However, there are some inefficiencies in their process that must be addressed before they can meet their goals. One of their first problems is maintaining an even flow in their process environment. Due to the nature of the inspections and the cold weather in Iceland, they are much more busy in the summer that they are in the winter. This makes it difficult to keep the right amount of employees. There is little they can do to avoid this problem, but rather they should examine their historical data to determine how many employees they will need in order to meet expected
Chapter 14 introduced us to the analysis of variance (ANOVA). According to the textbook, analysis of variance is a great procedure that is utilized to compare two or more populations of interval data. This comparison is in order to determine if there is a difference between them. ANOVA allows researchers to determine if the results of the test are noteworthy and of significance. ANOVA allows statistic practitioners to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis or accept the alternate hypothesis.
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The instrument used is questionnaire and chi-square is used to test the relationship between the variables, which has proven that there is a
In today’s competitive landscape, organizations must utilize every resource to its fullest in order to achieve profitability. Peter F. Drucker, who is known as “the founding father of the discipline of management”, informs us that employees are assets, which should be treated as a company’s most valuable resource. The key players involved in utilizing this valuable resource are the managers of a company. Managers have a vital role in a company and the effort they put forth into their tasks and responsibilities will directly affect the success of a company. In Drucker’s book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (Revised Edition), he explains the role of a company’s management team and the secrets to becoming a great manager.