(Solved): Craig manages a team of accountants. While trying to improve his team's job satisfaction, Craig rea ...

Craig manages a team of accountants. While trying to improve his team's job satisfaction, Craig reads a published experimental study, which found that when team leaders in a retail store started their day with motivational chants, their cashiers reported a 24 percent increase in job satisfaction. Before Craig applies this strategy to his team, which additional study would be the most helpful for him to consider? a. A study that conducts an 'environmental scan' of how many companies in his industry use motivational chants or similar team activities b. A study that examines whether or not the effect of motivational chants on job satisfaction can be considered causal c. A study that examines the effect of motivational chants or similar team activities on the job satisfaction of accountants (or other knowledge workers) d. A study that conducts a content analysis on the themes that most motivational chants and other team activities focus on Business researchers use contrived, highly-controlled settings created for a research purpose and invite participants into that artificial, lab setting when they are most concerned about quickly establishing the external validity of their findings. Select one: True Ms. Kensington hires an organizational consultant to confidentially survey her employees about their likelihood of leaving her organization. However, Ms. Kensington knows that her employees' feelings may change over time, so she asks the consultant to administer the survey once every few weeks to make sure that the results represent how employees feel consistently over time. What type of reliability evidence is Ms. Kensington assessing? a. Internal consistency b. Spdit-half c. Parallel forms d. Test-retest Amanita wants to research the experiences of employees who engage in 'microdosing' with psychedelic substances. She doesn't need a large sample of participants, and only intends to conduct a non-generalizable exploratory study. However, she is aware that it may be difficult to find participants who have these experiences. Which of the following sampling approaches would be the most appropriate for Amanita's study? a. Convenience sampling b. Snowball sampling c. Area sampling d. Stratified random sampling Field experiments are generally a better design choice than laboratory experiments for researchers who are highly concerned about controlling extraneous factors in their studies. Select one: True False