Consider that the benefit plan at your organization is designed to meet the preferences of both the employer and the employee. Identify what you believe are the preferences and personal factors of the employees with regard to benefits, and explain why these would be important to the employees. This should be in the form of a hypothesis statement of what is important to employees in their benefit plan at the subject organization.

To evaluate your selected hypothesis, identify both an experimental group of employees as well as a control group of employees who are separate from the experimental group. The control group may be from a different organization or derived from separate findings in the literature in general. Reflect your understanding of the purpose of a "control group" in such hypothesis testing.