Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) provides commentary and insight about the trends and challenges facing the HR profession in its HR Outlook Report. The report represents the results of an online survey conducted in 2016 with HR professionals at all levels of seniority, with responsibilities in the United Kingdom who are employed by an organization. CIPD was interested in examining differences between respondents in the private sector and those in the public sector. One area of focus was on HR professionals’ response to future organization priorities. The findings are summarized here.

What is the probability that a randomly chosen HR professional

a. is in the private sector?

b. is in the private sector or indicates that talent management is a future priority in his/her organization?

c. does not indicate that cost management is a future priority in his/ her organization” and is in the public sector?

d. does not indicate that cost management is a future priority in his/ her organization” or is in the public sector?

e. Suppose the randomly chosen HR professional does indicate that cost management is a future priority in his/her organization. What is the probability that the HR professional is in the public sector?

f. Are “cost management is a priority” and “sector” independent? 

g. Is “talent management is a priority” independent of “sector”?

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COST MANAGEMENT IS A PRIORITY SECTOR Yes No Total Private 128 219 347 72 Public 117 189 Total 245 291 536 TALENT MANAGEMENT IS A PRIORITY SECTOR Yes No Total Private 156 191 347 Public 66 123 189 Total 222 314 536