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RESEARCH METHODS (STA630)

ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
Due date: June 7, 2021
Total marks: 10
Topic: “Identification of Variables & Hypotheses Development”
OBJECTIVE OF THE ACTIVITY
To familiarize the students with the basics of variable identification and hypotheses
development.
LEARNING OUTCOME
After attempting this assignment, students will be able to correctly identify variables and
to develop hypotheses.

PREMISE AND REQUIREMENT:

The global economy has changed a lot with the unprecedented advent of COVID-
19. It has altered every person’s circumstances socially, psychologically, economically
and environmentally. People, societies, economies, countries and the whole world is
experiencing the indefinite fear, quarantine, and the lockdown shock. A thorough
research is needed on how pandemic has changed the lives and find better ways to
improve individual and organizational performance during this catastrophic g l o b a l
event i.e., COVID-19. The organizations need to be proactive now, which require them
to respond to the internal and external strategic shifts, to get the most out of the
opportunities. It further calls them to enhance employees’ KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, and
Abilities) to accomplish certain objectives.

As COVID-19 is fast-moving up the pace of indispensable change. Organizations

have been naturally put into situation where they have to modernize, for example,
working remotely. Since, performance is considered as a benchmark to get job done, and
a pertinent mechanism for performance standards to motivate employees and achieve
organizational sustainability.

Hence, a researcher designed his research to investigate the impact of remote

working on employees’ performance in telecom industry of Pakistan. The results were
astonishing as performance of employees at same designation level was different from
each other. He found that some employees have high motivation during remote working
whereas; others have low motivation during remote work. Hence, he also decided to
investigate the role of employee motivation to improve performance in remote working.
After data analysis, he will provide various recommendations to the policymakers to take
decisions accordingly.

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REQUIREMENT:
Being a student of Research Methodology, you are required to answer the following
questions:
1. Identify independent, dependent, and moderating variable. (Marks=2+2+2)

Solution

INDEPENDENT VARIABLES DEPENDENT MODERATING VARIABLES

VARIABLES
 COVID-19 Pandemic  Global economy Knowledge, Skills, Abilities,
 Catastrophic Global Event  Person’s Motivation, Research, [Reasons
circumstances of high motivation of some
 People employees will also become
 Societies moderating variables]
 Economies
 World
 Fear
 Quarantine
 Lockdown shocks
 Organizational
performance
 Work performance of
employee’s
 Remote working

2. Develop two hypotheses by using the selected variables. (Marks=2+2)

Answer:

1. Some Employee’s in national organization have high level of motivation than other
Employee’s.
2. Covid-19 has Caused fear, Lockdown shocks and quarantine

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:
 Students are advised to study the whole text carefully.
 Try not to include any irrelevant material in the solution.
 Try to come up with precise and original answers.
 Any act of plagiarism like copy paste from internet will result in ZERO marks.
 Assignments reaching after the due date would not be considered.

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 Make sure to upload the solution file before the due date on VULMS.
 Any submission made via email after the due date will not be accepted.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
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 It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word format.
 Use black font color only.
RULES FOR MARKING:
Please note that your assignment will be graded as Zero (0), if:
 It is submitted after the due date.
 The file you uploaded does not open or is corrupt.
 It is in any format other than MS-Word or Open Office; e.g. Excel, PowerPoint,
PDF etc.
 It is cheated or copied from other students, internet, books, journals etc.

IMPORTANT
24 hours extra/grace period after the due date is usually available to overcome uploading
difficulties. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and above
mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any inconvenience.

Good Luck!

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