Instructions

Background

In a firm with $500$ employees, the CEO is interested in knowing what level of commitment the company$$s employees have to the firm. The CEO suspects approximately $250$ full$-$time employees are more committed $($e$.$g$.,$ emotional attachment to the firm$)$ than the nearly $250$ contracted personnel. The CEO has a hypothesis that company employees are more committed and, therefore, would like to propose hiring employees versus contractors or converting the contractors to full$-$time employees. Alternatively, if you fail to reject the null hypothesis, then the use of contractors can be expanded. Either way, the CEO$$s company will get better commitment from employees or cost savings and workforce flexibility from contractors. The CEO asked the human resources director to survey all employees using an established measurement scale that taps into organizational commitment. The dataset represents the average scores of each worker on this scale. Test the null hypothesis that there is not a statistically significant difference between the two groups of workers using the independent samples t$-$test in both Excel and SPSS$.$

Instructions

In your write$-$up of this study, please briefly describe the purpose of the study, describe the use of the t$-$test to explore this hypothesis, and report the findings in detail. Last, please explain the results in narrative form. In other words, tell the story of the study beyond simply calculating the t$-$value.

Additional Resources

Use the accompanying datasets BUS$-7106$ Data Set Lesson $2$ Assignment Excel file and BUS$-7106$ Data Set Lesson $2$ Assignment SPSS file to address the following assignment.

Grading

Length: $3-5$ pages

References: At least $3$ resources $($remember that analysis software count as source materials$)$