PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Participant Observation, Convergent Validity, Observational Techniques
16 Jan 2012
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Readings: january 9, 2012 y objective and systematic y evidence based management - involves translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. Helps managers make decisions based on the best available scientific evidence from social science and organizational research rather that personal preference and unsystematic experience. The basics of organizational behaviour research y hypothesis - formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables y variables - measures that can take on two or more values. Like contingency variable in that they indicate when an independent variable is most likely related to a dependent variable. y mediating - variable that intervenes or explains the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable. 3 basic research techniques - observational, correlation and experimentation. Sampling y external validity - extent to which results of a study generalize to other samples and settings y random sampling - research participants are randomly chosen from a population of interest.
