Full Question:
Edwin is the HR manager at a customer care unit with approximately 1,000 employees. He wants to statistically analyze the service data to make the recruitment process more effective by identifying desirable and undesirable qualities of employees. Edwin observes a high positive correlation between the employees' ability to adapt and the turnaround time. However, he decides to avoid using this criterion when recruiting employees. Which of the following, if true, would MOST strengthen this decision to avoid the criterion
A) The statistical significance of the correlation was found to be sixty percent.
B) Another trait, honesty, had a higher correlation coefficient than employees' ability to adapt.
C) The sample size used by Edwin was significantly larger than what was required.
D) Multiple regressions were observed among the variables used for the analysis.
Answer:
The correct answer here is A)
Explanation:
The key to decision making using statistical research is <em>Statistical Significance. </em>This means that a statistically significant observation is probably true. In this case, the statistical significance of his findings is 60%.
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Answer:
1. Apart from helping to know the average cost of a product, analyzing fixed and variable cost will help to derive the break even point.
2. Profit will go down
Explanation:
1. The size of the selling price and the variable cost determine contribution per unit of a product. Contribution per unit is Price minus variable cost. This shows the contribution of sales revenue towards covering the fixed cost of a product.
2. Relevant range is the estimated or budgeted activity level which defines a business volume of production or operation, it is both maximum and minimum threshold within which the entity must operate to expect certain level of cost and revenue.
Sometimes fixed costs are fixed within a relevant range of activities and outside such range, fixed cost may become variable, which will all things being equal impact negatively on the price.
Also, within relevant range volume discount may be achieved and outside such range, this may be forfeited which, will also reduce profit all things being equal.
Answer:
The correct word for the blank space is: direct.
Explanation:
Foreign Direct Investment is a type of cross-border investment to create a lasting interest that a resident company based in one country could have in a company operating in another. Lasting interest implies a substantial degree of interest in the company's management as well as establishing a long-term relationship between the direct investor and the direct investment business.
Answer:
B)Emotion-focused cognitive coping
Explanation:
Emotion-focused coping can be regarded as type of stress management that brings about reduction in negative emotional responses that comes with stress. Some of techniques of emotion focused coping is Distracting one's self from off the issue.
