BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absenteeism, Job Performance, British Association For Immediate Care
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Research: finding out about the world through objective and systematic information gathering. Evidence-based management: translating principles based on the scientific research (vs. personal preferences and unsystematic experience) into organizational practices that solve problems. Question: all research in ob begins with basic question about work/organization. Literature review: go to the jour(cid:374)als a(cid:374)d fi(cid:374)d out (cid:449)hat"s (cid:271)ee(cid:374) do(cid:374)e (cid:271)efore. Hypothesis: simple restatement of the research question in such a way that it can be tested formal statement of expected relationship between 2 variables. Variables: measures that can take on 2 or more values (ex: temperature, pay, fairness) Hypothesis = (cid:862)the less fair people perceive their pa(cid:455) to (cid:271)e, the (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455) the(cid:455)"ll resig(cid:374). (cid:863) a (cid:448)aria(cid:271)le (perceived fairness) can be many values & is linked to a variable of 2 values: staying or leaving. Independent: predictor/cause of variation on a dependent variable, factor manipulated/measured. Dependent: outcome, result; will vary as a result of changes in the independent variable.
