CAT 1: Business Research Methods/Research Methods in Project Management ( 40 marks). The manager of Deep West Company observes that the morale of employees in her company is low. She thinks that if their working conditions are improved, pay scales raised, and the vacation benefits made attractive, the morale will be boosted. She doubts, however, if an increase in pay scales would raise the morale of all employees. Her conjecture is that those that have supplemental incomes will just not be "turned on" by higher pay, and only those without side incomes will be happy with increased pay with a resultant boost in morale. Deep west company has branches in all the 47 counties in Kenya with a total workforce of 5000 employees. the manager has contracted you to carry out a scientific investigation to enable her make an informed decision.

a. list and lable the variables in this situation 6mks

b. explain the relationships among the variables and illustreate them by means of diagrams 4mks

c. what might be the problem statement or problem definition for the situation 4mks

d. provide a suitable research topic for this research investigation 2 mks

e. enumarate 2 null hypothesis commensurate with this study and subsequently highlight the importance of hypotheses in this research 10mks

f. describe the sampling procedure that is most appropriate for this study 4mks

g. what scale of measurement is applicable for this study? give reasons 4mks

h. siting specific examples, discuss moderating variables in research 6mks