Assignment 3: Raw Data Representation and Interpretation
By Wednesday, June 18, 2014, post your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
Problem Situation: The CEO of your company has asked you, the human resource manager, to conduct a study to determine whether or not male managers and female managers perceive leadership styles differently and, if differences are found, to develop a training program that will benefit gender differences in leadership. To this end you selected, randomly, 10 male managers and 10 female managers to participate in your study. To each manager a leadership style survey questionnaire was administered. The questionnaire chosen was the Blake & Mouton Managerial Grid as it assesses leadership behavior. The numeric raw data results of the 18 question study are as follows:
Raw Numeric Questionnaire Data |
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Question |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Male |
4 |
4.6 |
3.2 |
3.9 |
4.2 |
3.7 |
4.1 |
4.5 |
3.5 |
Female |
4.2 |
4.1 |
4.2 |
4.6 |
3.9 |
4.1 |
4.7 |
4.1 |
4.2 |
Raw Numeric Questionnaire Data |
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Question |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
Male |
4 |
3.9 |
4 |
3 |
4.5 |
4.9 |
3 |
3.3 |
3 |
Female |
4 |
4.2 |
4.1 |
4 |
4.5 |
4.3 |
3.9 |
4 |
3.7 |
Complete the following in a single MS Word or Excel document: