Your Department Has Absenteeism Standards, a Way to Measure Absenteeism

question 78

Multiple Choice

Your department has absenteeism standards, a way to measure absenteeism, and, based on your investigation, you have concluded that your department has an excessive absenteeism rate. What should your next step be?

• A) Set new absenteeism standards.
• B) Develop new measures of absenteeism.
• C) Terminate three employees for excessive absenteeism.
• D) All of these would be good examples of taking corrective action.
• E) None of these

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

An assertion that there is no significant difference or relationship between specified populations, groups, or variables.

FA

A statistical method, factor analysis, used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables.

Reject

In statistical analysis, the act of not accepting a hypothesis based on the evidence from data.

H0

Symbol for the null hypothesis, indicating the hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and any observed effect is due to chance.