life satisfaction than upward social comparison‚ a second study was proposed to make amendments to the limitations of the first study. Some amendments include increasing the effect of the manipulation on the participants and choosing a different sampling method to better represent the population. The new study hopes to yield better results that are statistically significant pertaining to the effects of social comparison on life satisfaction. Keywords: social comparison‚ life satisfaction
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Case study (DuPont case) Applied Research for international Business Management 1) Marketing research involves the identification‚ collection‚ analysis and dissemination of information. Explain how each of these phases of marketing research applies to DuPont’s problem. 2) One of the objectives of problem identification is formulating the marketing research problem and determining the information that is needed to solve it. First DuPont has to identify the target market which
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to different industries‚ different types of organizations and employees in different situations. The study will also study the impact of gender‚ pay scale and age and examine whether it affects the impact. The sample size will be 15 and stratified random sampling will be used to collect the data. The analysis will be done using 95% confidence levels. This is a true experiment as it meets the conditions of one given that it is being conducted in a controlled environment with independent and dependent
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1.1 Introduction Corporate governance has been the subject of numerous theoretical and empirical studies especially after the fraudulent reporting scandals such as Enron‚ World.com‚ Adelphia‚ and Parmalat.it has come to mean many things. Traditionally and at fundamental level the concept refers to corporate decision making and control‚ particularly the structure of the board and its working procedures‚ Hermes (1994). Jenifer (2002) defines corporate governance as a set of interlocking riles by which
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able to use a verity of sources for the collection of data‚ both primary and secondary 5 1.1 Create a plan for the collection of primary and secondary data for given business problem 5 1.2 Present the survey methodology and sampling frame used 6 1.3 Design a questionnaire for given business problem 7 LO 2. Understand a range of techniques to analyses data effectively for business purpose 8 2.1. Create information for decision
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Ethical considerations: Some participants may not be comfortable with being on record for their qualitative statements‚ or may be recognizable‚ and thus recording qualitative may impede on the participants’ confidentiality Appropriate sampling techniques: * Interviews * Observations * Open-ended surveys Effects of participant expectations and researcher bias in qualitative research: They may impose demand characteristics upon otherwise qualitative data
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Clainos Chidoko‚ et.al.‚ Int. J. Eco. Res.‚ 2011 2(5)‚ 1-13 ISSN: 2229-6158 ECONOMIC CHALLENGES OF SUGAR CANE PRODUCTION IN THE LOWVELD OF ZIMBABWE 1 Clainos Chidoko and 2Ledwin Chimwai Department of Economics‚ 2Department of Banking and Finance Great Zimbabwe University‚ Faculty of Commerce Box 1235‚ Masvingo‚ Zimbabwe 1 Abstract: The study sought to investigate the economic factors affecting the productivity of small scale sugar-cane farmers in the Lowveld of Zimbabwe with particular
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Preparing to Conduct Business Research: Part 3 Team B (Augusta Gose‚ Tammy Brown‚ Tiffany Kenny‚ Rudy Burns‚ Steven Delgado RES/351 November 5‚ 2012 Judith Longmeyer Introduction Approving a health care provider assessment proposal will reduce the amount of charity cost and bad debt that Banner Health and other healthcare organizations incur. Having a provider assessment in place for Banner Health would be beneficial to the hospital and patients due to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment
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Research problem Brain drain or human capital flight is defined in Oxford dictionary as “the movement of highly skilled and qualified people to a country where they can work in better conditions and earn more money.” Since the early 1990s‚ a small number of India’s valuable human resources has been leaving the country in search of “greener pastures” in the region and the world over. During the last four years‚ this brain drain trend has escalated in magnitude to levels that have serious implications
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Statistical Data Analyses Graeme Ferdinand D. Armecin‚ MHSS Outline of Presentation Overview of Research Designs Functions of Statistics Sampling Principles of Analysis and Interpretation (with Computer Package) – Descriptive Statistics – Inferential Statistics Graeme Ferdinand D. Armecin‚ MHSS Statistical Data Analyses Purposes of Research Design Exploratory/Descriptive Research design – Basic or fundamental in the research enterprise – What is going on? –
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