Assignment 3: Research Design and Data Collection

Submit your response to the M1:
Assignment 3 Dropbox by Week 1, Day 7. Your response should be at
least three pages in length.

Given the hypothesis high employee
satisfaction is correlated with low employee absenteeism, address the
following in your paper this week:

• Identify the variables in
  this study. What are some extraneous variables that might impact your
  research? How would you control for extraneous variables?
• Which research design would
  you use to study this hypothesis and why?
• What data collection
  techniques would you use to study this hypothesis and why?
• Assuming that you get a
  correlation of r = -.70, what does this tell you about the strength and
  direction of the correlation between satisfaction and absenteeism?
• What are some potential
  problems you might encounter, and what strategies would you use to
  minimize these problems?
• Use APA standards.

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assignments, you are required to cite, at a minimum, the online course
and the textbook for the course.  Additional sources are welcome. Scholarly
sources are preferred and can be found through Argosy University online
library resources.  Please see the Library and Tutoring Services section
under Course Home to use Argosy University online library resources.
 Additional, non-scholarly sources from reputable Web and print sources
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sites as opposed to .com sites. Avoid Wikipedia.