Case Study of ZYX Incorporated

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Case Study of ZYX Incorporated Executive Summary In order to measure the variables in this study to determine which variables have an impact on ZYX’s employees’ job satisfaction different measures will be used on different variables depending on how the data was collected. The variables are the employees’ position in the company, their income level, their level of education, new commute time, gender, job satisfaction, stress level, interest in their job. A nominal study will be preformed on variables that are mutually exclusive and can be classified into specific categories. The variables that will be measured qualitatively on a nominal scale are gender. Gender will be categorized as male or female. An ordinal scale will be used to measure variables, which are also mutually exclusive and can be categorized but the magnitude of each category varies. An ordinal scale will be used to rank the variable of position; position will be separated into five categories of administrative, blue collar, managerial, professional or for those that do not fit into any of those a category of other. Income will be measured on an ordinal scale with the categories of under $25,000, between $25,000 and $35,000, between $36,000 and $45,000, between $46,000 and $55,000, between $56,000 and $65,000 and over $65,000. Commute time will also use an ordinal scale, with the categories being under 30 minutes, between 30 minutes and one hour, between one hour 10 minutes and two hours, between two hours 10 minutes and three hours. Lastly, for ordinal measurement will be the level of education the categories for this variable will be high school diploma, associates degree, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and doctorate. Job satisfaction and stress will both be measured on a ratio scale because they will have absolute zeros for those that have no job satisfaction and those that feel no

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