Class Activity 1: Answers

State the variable/s and diagram the

relationships (if there is any).
1. An applied researcher wants to increase the
performance of organizational members in a
particular bank.

Answer:
• Dependent Variable: Performance of
organizational members

• Why?
Because dependent variable is the variable of
primary interest to the researcher.
2. Cross cultural research indicates that managerial
values govern the power distance between superiors
and subordinates.

• Answer:

IV DV
Power distance
Managerial between superiors
Values and subordinates
3. A manager believes that good supervision and
training would increase the production level of the
workers.

• Answer:

IV DV
Good supervision Production level
and training of workers
4. A marketing manager wonders why the recent
advertisement strategy does not work.

Answer:

Dependent variable: Advertisement strategy

5. A manger finds that off-the-job classroom training has a
great impact on the productivity of the employees in her
department. However, she also observes that employees
over 60 years of age do not seem to derive much benefit
and do not improve with such training.

Answer:
IV DV
Off-the-job class Productivity of
room training employees

Unwillingness of
MV employees over
60 years of age
to pursue
training
 .
6 Failure to follow accounting principles cause immense confusion,
which in turn creates a number of problems for the organization. Those
with vast experience in bookkeeping, however, are able to avert the
problems by taking timely corrective action.

Answer:
IV Int.V DV

Failure to follow Corrective No. of accounting

accounting principles action problems

MV Expertise in
bookkeeping
7. A consultant is of the opinion that much benefit would
accrue by buying and selling at the appropriate times in a
financial environment where the stocks are volatile.

Answer:
IV DV

Buying and selling

Volatility of stocks of stocks
8. The manager of Haines Company observes that the morale of employees in
her company is low. She thinks that if their working conditions are improved,
pay scales raised, and the vacation benefits made attractive, the morale will be
boosted. She doubts, however , if an increase of pay scales would raise the
morale of all employees. Her conjecture is that those that have supplemental
incomes will just not be “turned on” by higher pay, and only those without side
incomes will be happy increased pay with resultant boost.

IVs DV
Working
Int.conditions
V
Vacation benefits
Morale of
employees
Pay scales

Supplemental
income
 Reference
• Sekaran, Uma. (2006) Research Methods for
Business: A Skill Building Approach. 4th Edn.
New Delhi, India: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. UK.