A managerial talent identification process $($MTIP$)$ designed as part of a promotional examination to identify promotion$-$ready

employees in an organisational context requires candidates to complete a complex task before a cutoff time. Recently, the

management of Mahogany Limited, a technology company, resolved to implement the MTIP system to identify the most

suitable employees for promotion to its managerial rank.

To ensure gender representivity, $30$ employees were initially selected to participate in the promotional examination on the

basis of gender stratification from Mahogany$$s non$-$managerial staff complement of $420.$ Table $3\mathrm{.}1$ below, depicts the

gender and the time taken $($in min$4\mathrm{.}1.$ Elaborate on how stratified sampling was used as an instrument of gender representivity in Mahogany$$s MTIP system.

In your discussion, among others, show the calculations employed in the stratification exercise. $(5$ marks$)$

Your discussion should highlight the following:

$5.$ A discussion of stratified sampling with in$-$test citations.

$6.$ An elaboration on its representivity

$7.$ Calculations showing the application of stratified sampling.