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THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE

Faculty of Management Sciences
Lahore Business School
Fall 2020 – Final Term
Subjective

Instructor’s Name: Dr. Albert John Paper: Research Workshop

Program / Date: MPhil 12/01/2021 Subject Code: RM03527

Time Allowed: 90 minutes Total Marks: 40

Reviewed By: ---------------------- Approved By: ---------------------

Instructions for Candidates

i. Attempt all questions.
ii. Any question not attempted will be marked as incorrect.
iii. All questions do not carry equal marks.
iv. Subjective paper must be returned to examiner at the completion of this section.

Question 1: Paraphrase the following sentences into your own words.

(1) I am not afraid of what might happen if I quit my job without having another one lined up.
(2) It would be very hard for me to leave my organization right now, even if I wanted to.
(3) Too much in my life would be disrupted if I decided I wanted to leave my organization now.
(03 Marks)
Question 2: Create the reference in APA 7th style using the below information:

i. Study title: Be Bad But (Still) Look Good: Can Controversial Industries Enhance Corporate
Reputation Through CSR Initiatives?
ii. Author Names: Claudio Aqueveque, Pablo Rodrigo, Ignacio J. Duran
iii. Journal: Business ethics: a European review
iv. Year: 2018
v. Pages: 1-16
(05 Marks)

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Question 3: Read the given hypotheses carefully and develop the study model indicating the
independent, dependent, mediating and moderating variables.
(1) Employees’ perceptions of an inconsistent CSR strategy are positively associated with their
perceptions of the employer’s corporate hypocrisy.
(2) Employees’ perceptions of an inconsistent CSR strategy are positively associated with emotional
exhaustion, mediated by employees’ perceptions of the employer’s corporate hypocrisy.
(3) Employees’ perceptions of an inconsistent CSR strategy are positively associated with intention to
quit, mediated by (a) employees’ perceptions of the employer’s corporate hypocrisy and (b)
employees’ degree of emotional exhaustion.
(05 Marks)
Question 4: The production department within Honda Private Limited has a high turnover rate; workers
of this unit have a shorter average tenure than those of other units in the company. Skilled employees are
resigning from their job and the workforce is now consisted of a high portion of new workers. Ms Amina
has no idea why this is happening. She is keen to about this problem.
Indicate how she should proceed; that is, determine the following, giving reasons:
(1) Type of research question (exploratory, descriptive, or causal).
(2) The extent of researcher interference.
(3) The study setting.
(4) The research strategy.
(5) The time horizon for the study.
(6) The unit of analysis.
(12 Marks)
Question 5: A researcher is investigating to understand the relationship of organizational identification
and turnover intentions. Organizational identification refers to the employees’ personal definition of self
against their organizational membership. Organizational identification is measured by six items scale by
the scale of Mael and Ashforth (1992) on the Likert scale of 5 [1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree].
Turnover intentions are the employees’ intention of voluntary withdrawal from the organization and
measured by the 4-item scale developed by Walsh et al. (1985) on the five-point Likert scale from strongly
disagree to strongly agree.
You are required to design a neat and attractive questionnaire including the introduction and instructions
for the respondents.
Organizational Identification Scale
a. When someone criticizes the company, it feels like a personal insult.

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b. I am very interested in what others think about the company.

c. When I talk about the company, I usually say ‘we’ rather than ‘they’.
d. This company’s successes are my successes.
e. When someone praises the company, it feels like a personal compliment.
f. If a story in the media criticized the company, I would feel embarrassed.
Turnover Intentions Scale
a. I am thinking about quitting my job.
b. I am starting to ask my friends/contacts about other job possibilities.
c. I intend to leave this company within the next six months.
d. I often look to see if positions in other firms are open.
(15 Marks)

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