Almost 40 Percent of New Managers Fail Within the First

question 20

Multiple Choice

Almost 40 percent of new managers fail within the first 18 months on the job because of:

• A) a lack of organizational support.
• B) a lack of technical training.
• C) a lack of interpersonal skills.
• D) a lack of knowledge of what the job will entail.

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Definitions:

Parametric Techniques

Methods in statistics that assume the sample data comes from a population that follows a probability distribution based on a fixed set of parameters.

Normally Distributed

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable, characterized by a symmetrical bell-shaped curve.

Population Assumptions

Hypotheses regarding the characteristics or distribution of the population from which a sample is drawn in statistical modeling.

Wilcoxon Rank-sum Test

A statistical test that doesn't rely on parameters and is utilized to evaluate whether two separate samples have different population mean ranks.