Week 5 Analyzing and Interpreting Data

The beginning of the raw data into the data filtering and processing systems. For example, if you think the interested in the differences by age, it is probably to start with customers surveys from different age groups.

After compiling all the information, from researching the topic of high turnover rates in a company to find what can be done to correct it in an effective manner. I have found that many areas of a company are affected and to what level of

Just like most of the research, there are two types of data in our project, the primary data, and the secondary data.

. Provide examples of variable that are at the nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio level of measurement. Explain why.

Determine which level of measurement— nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio—is used in the following examples.

Some feel their supervisors don’t understand them and some are just on the way to the next highest paying job. No matter the reason, the loss of staff affects the quality and quantity of service we provide to our clients. Turnover increases critical incidents with our clients by putting them in harm’s way by utilizing staff they may not have been properly trained to deal with the client and their particular needs (Wenger, 2011). Furthermore, turnover causes severe staffing shortages and increases overtime costs for additional staff to cover those vacated positions (Wenger, 2011). As an HR professional, I wanted to focus this research on finding the answers to the questions I had around turnover. My research will include the concepts of recruitment and selection in acquiring human resources as well as compensation and training and development and will be used in formulating the strategic recruitment plan.

Typically there are four different levels of measurements for variables. These are nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. Nominal measurement is a numerical value. An example in the High School Longitudinal Study database used are the year’s math teacher has taught high school math. Ordinal measurement are the features that can be categorized. An example of this would be if you’re ranked the highest education of the parents. An ranking example is reflected below chart

In this paper Team C will discuss a situation within a company that requires research, hypothesis and variable. We will also go over the ethics that need to be taken into account. The situation that is being faced is the employee turnover rate is too high. This is a significant problem because it is causing the company to lose money each time they have to train a new employee. This is a great situation to research and find out what is going on, and figure out how it can be changed. The research for this will figure out why the situation seems to be that there is a high

BIMS, Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. is a corporation specializes in the services of food and housekeeping to corporations and institutions. The general manager, Barbara Tucker, has noticed that over the last four months the turnover rate has shot up to 64%. Not only is the turnover rate higher than usual, but also employees seemed unmotivated to do their job. There are more employees walking around doing nothing and more employees not doing their job well enough, resulting in complaints from the hospital administration in which they are working. Debbie Homer, HR manage, has developed an employee survey instrument to try to identify why employees are leaving and why each employee is no longer motivated.

The four levels of measurements are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. I work on a pediatric hematology/ oncology floor where we have a bed capacity of 18. At times our pediatric census is low and we will have adults transferred to our unit as overflow. We use the nominal measurement to determine how many adult (A) patients we have and pediatric (P) patients we have. We use this measurement to classify the patients and the letters in this case are used to classify the data. It also helps the nurses know what our patient load is should an emergency arise. Ordinal level of measurement is used to determine the charge nurse on our floor. The most senior nurse on the floor working that day is in charge because she/ he have been there the longest. It is a ranking system that is not evenly spaced out but there is clear reasoning behind it. An interval measurement is the difference between two values and we use this measurement at work while taking temperatures on our patients. For example, if the temperature is 39.5 Celsius and 36.5 Celsius they have the same difference as between 39.0 Celsius and 36 Celsius. This measurement shows a scale from a low interval to a high interval. Ratios are also done when we weigh our patients. There is always an absolute zero when working with ratios, meaning that the can be no number that falls below zero. If we have a patient who weighs 15kg and weigh them again and they weigh

2. Use information provided in the case to determine if the turnover is functional or

There are two types of turnover, voluntary turnover happens when the employee makes the decision to leave and involuntary turnover is when employees has no choice in their termination (Schmitz, 2012). Every month or sooner managers experience some of their exceedingly qualified employees leave the company. After realizing that their company is becoming less profitable is when they begin to wonder why and brainstorm on ways to retain them. In Information Technology, “the cost of recruiting new staff is high and the loss of continuity when staff leave can also be very expensive” (Bott, 2005, p. 111). In IT, human resources strive to maintain their highly skilled employees while employees’

Ordinal Scale – enables one also to determine the median, percentile rank, and rank correlation.

Schaefer, J. (n.d.). The Root Causes of Low Employee Morale. Retrieved from American Management Association:

The authors of this article give the misconceptions of employee turnover by systematically breaking down myths that organizations tend to believe cause employees to leave the workplace. The misconceptions are replaced with evidence based strategies that show the underlying factors beyond pay compensation that drive turnover in addition the employee morale. One of the meta-analytical relationships that