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Changing the Way Due to His Spouse's Accepting a Promotion, Colin Had Recently

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Changing the Way
Due to his spouse's accepting a promotion, Colin had recently left his private sector job in Adelaide and accepted a new position in public service in Victoria.The change had been quite a shock at first.The organisational cultures were quite different, and each environment offered a different set of challenges.One new challenge Colin accepted was implementing changes into a state government system.Historically, this environment had not seen a lot of changes and now, with the changes in Canberra and the privatisation of many government services, change was necessary.Plus, his department director was also new and had announced that the department would be developing a new strategic plan.Colin had been through many changes recently and would be involved in more in the near future.
-Refer to Changing the Way (Scenario) .The past environment of state government, with very little change where the status quo is considered the equilibrium state, would be consistent with ALL BUT which of the following terms?

Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement suggesting that there is no significant difference or relationship between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistical hypothesis testing that assumes no effect or no difference between phenomena or populations.

Level of Risk

The probability or chance of experiencing harm or loss.

One-sample Z-test

A statistical test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the mean of a sample and a known or hypothesized population mean.