Exploitation of workers by upper management has a long history in the United States. Research published in the Academy of Management Journal (December 2019) investigated whether employees’ perceptions of an exploitative employee–organization relationship are positively related to their anger and hostility. A sample of 186 workers from a variety of professions (e.g., aircraft mechanic, sales clerk) participated in the study. Using a 7-point Likert scale (where 1 = “strongly disagree” and 7 = “strongly agree”), the researchers measured both the level of perceived exploitation and the level of anger/hostility for each worker. The data (simulated from information provided by the study) are saved in the file. The first 10 observations are listed in the table. Conduct a complete simple linear regression analysis of the data. Do perceptions of an exploitative relationship lead employees to feel anger and hostility toward their organizations?

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Worker 1 SAXLASAWN. Exploit Anger 43324 4 6 1