BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter Appendix: Hawthorne Effect, Internal Validity, Observational Techniques
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Begins with a question about work or organizations. Hypothesis: a formal statement of the expected relationship between two variables. Variables: measure that can take two or more values. Steps: design your study, collect your data, analyze data and report findings. Independent variable: a predictor or cause of variation in a dependent variable. Dependent variable: is a variable that will vary as a result of changes in the independent variable. Moderating variable: a variable that affects the nature of the relationship between an independent and dependent variable such that the relationship depends on the level of the moderating variable. Mediating variable: a variable that intervenes or explains the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable. Reliability: an index of consistency of a research subjects responses. Validity: an index of the extent to which a measure truly reflects what it"s supposed to measure. Convergent validity: when there is a strong relationship between different measures of the same variable.
