research methods

QUESTION THREE (a) For policy purposes, Social Science researchers are always interested in the relationships between or among variables. When two variables are related, a desired policy outcome can be achieved by manipulating one of such variables. Table 1 illustrates one of such research outputs. Table 1: Correlation analysis of motivation and employee performance X: - Employee X- Motivation performance X -Employee Pearson 1.00 0.593 performance Correlation Sig. (2-tailed) .000 N 612 *** Coefficient is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed) 612 Study the results carefully and explain them in terms of i. presence of relationship ii. nature of the relationship iii. direction of the relationship [2 marks [2 marks] [2 marks] iv. v. the strength and significance of association 12 marks] the changes in employee performance that can be attributed to motivation [2 marks]