This activity is important because as a manager, you will want to implement policies and practices that have positive impact. Correlations tell you how often changes in one variable lead to changes in another variable. With this knowledge, you can be more effective in choosing methods to increase job performance and organizational commitment.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of correlations by matching described relationships to different strengths of r values.

Match each correlation strength to the corresponding description of organizational research results.

None $($r $=\mathrm{.}00)$ Strong $($r $=\mathrm{.}50)$ Perfect $($r $=1\mathrm{.}00)$ Moderate $($r $=\mathrm{.}30)$

Match each of the options above to the items below.

James says that higher pay will always lead to higher job performance. You are skeptical because you know perfect relationships are not realistic in OB given the many influences on people$$s behaviours.

$3$

You find that there is a strong relationship between training on new machines and accuracy of work. If you increase training, accuracy will increase, although not every time because the relationship is not perfect.

No answer

A consultant advises you that more employee absences will lead to a moderately higher level of negative work behaviours. Many OB studies have moderately strong results and inform us of important relationships.

$4$

Although you thought more employee meetings would result in higher job satisfaction, this did not happen. There was actually no relationship whatsoever between these two variables.