While Reviewing Staffing Plans for a New Pilot Plant, Colin

question 50

Multiple Choice

While reviewing staffing plans for a new pilot plant, Colin Posein, VP of Operations at Balzac Chemicals, Inc., designed an experiment to test the effects of "supervisor's style" and "training method" on the productivity of operators.The treatment levels were: (1) authoritarian, and participatory for supervisor's style, and (2) technical manuals, training films, and multimedia for training method.Three qualified applicants were randomly selected and assigned to each of the six cells.Colin's experimental design is ___.

• A)random block design
• B)normalized block design
• C)completely randomized design
• D)factorial design
• E)fractional design

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