BU288 Chapter Notes -Internal Validity, External Validity, Hawthorne Effect
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Research is a way of finding out about the world through objective and systematic information gathering. Evidence based management translating principles based on the best scientific evidence into organizational practices. The use of evidence based management is more likely to result in the attainment of organizational goals including those affecting employees, stockholders, and the public in general. Hypothesis a formal statement of eh expected relationship between the two variables. Variables measures that can take on two or more values ex. Here, a variable with two values, bonus versus no bonus, is related to one that can take on many values, days of absenteeism. Independent variable the variable that predicts or is the cause of variation in a dependent variable. Dependent variable the variable that is expected to vary as a result of changes to the independent variable. Pay fairness is the independent variable and resigning is the dependent variable.
