dentify a problem from your current your former workplace that requires some research to solve/address. Develop a hypothesis for the problem. Identify what type of hypothesis you are using (see readings) and identify the independent and dependent variables you would use to further investigate the problem.

Embry MBAA522 All Modules Discussions and Assignments Entire Course

Embry MBAA522 Module 1.5

1.5 – Discussion: Stock Reports

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There are many databases available through the library and unless you use them you will not become familiar with what is available. Often you will find access to information you did not know was available while you are looking for information.

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Within the databases available is one that provides stock reports for individual firms. View the example stock report Preview the documentView in a new window(the firm used as the example cannot be used as your firm). Select a firm in the aviation/ aerospace industry and post the stock report on the discussion board. Provide a three to four sentence summary of the recommendation made on the stock (i.e. Buy/Sell/Hold and the major reasons why). After your short summary (in the same post), post the current stock price and the 12 month target stock price. This is a first come first served discussion meaning if someone posts about their selected firm first they get to post it and you will need to select a new firm.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your response. Please read these instructions for information on accessing the discussion rubric. (Links to an external site.)

Class discussions are an integral part of your learning in this course. You are both encouraged and expected to participate in online discussions. Regular and meaningful contributions are part of your final course grade. Please refer to the Canvas discussion student manual to assist in Discussion Board use.

Embry MBAA522 Module 2.4 Discussion

2.4 – Discussion: Workplace Problems

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Identify a problem from your current your former workplace that requires some research to solve/address. Develop a hypothesis for the problem. Identify what type of hypothesis you are using (see readings) and identify the independent and dependent variables you would use to further investigate the problem. Post a brief description of the problem, including the above information early in the module week so that other students have a chance to respond to your hypothesis and identification of variables that could be used to further investigate the problem.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback.

Embry MBAA522 Module 3.4 Discussion

3.4 – Discussion: Ethics

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For this discussion answer the following questions taken from the Ethics in Business Research chapter of your Business Research Methods textbook:

What are the most prudent decisions Avionics Inc. can make about its responsibilities to itself and others?
What are the implications of those decisions even if there is no violation of law or regulation?

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback

Embry MBAA522 Module 4.4 Discussion

4.4 – Discussion: Research Question

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Using resources available through the Hunt Library locate a primary source and secondary source dealing with the same research topic. Provide the citation (in APA format) and write a brief summary for each source. The summary should include the primary research question, a description of how the author(s) obtained data used in the research, and the main conclusion of each research project. Identify at least one research question that could extend this stream of research. In addition, critically evaluate the process used to collect data for the study. What improvements could be made in the data collection process (if any)? Be sure to provide enough of the background/research problem that allows your classmates to read your summary and comment.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback.

Embry MBAA522 Module 6.2 Discussion

6.2 – Discussion: Qualitative Technique

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Identify a problem you have at work. Pick a qualitative technique to perform research on the issue. Describe why you selected that particular technique and how you will use the selected technique to investigate the issue.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback.

Embry MBAA522 Module 7.4 Discussion

7.4 – Discussion: Observation Study

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Identify a phenomena at work that would be a good candidate for an observation study. State what you selected and why this phenomena would be suitable for an observation study. Make sure you apply concepts from the readings in determining why this is a candidate for an observation study. In addition, discuss the varieties of information that might be retrieved. Select at least two content areas of study and operationally define the observation acts that should be measured.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback.

Embry MBAA522 Module 8.4 Discussion

8.4 – Discussion: Experimental Design

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Choose one of the following and discuss what type of experimental design you would use. Provide some detail how you would design the study.

A test of three methods of compensation of factory workers. The methods are hourly wage, incentive pay, and weekly salary. The dependent variable is direct labor cost per unit of output.
A study of the effects of various levels of advertising effort and price reduction on the sale of specific branded grocery products by a retail grocery chain
A study to determine whether it is true that the use of fast paces music played over a store’s public address system will speed the shopping rate of customers without an adverse effect on the amount spent per customer.

Review the Discussion Board Rubric before submitting your initial post. After posting your original response, respond to two of your peers with meaningful feedback.

Embry MBAA522 Module 1.4 Assignment

Quantitative research involves the analysis of data. Often there are databases available or government data available for free on the internet. There are also proprietary databases that can provide data as well. For this assignment, you will collect data and begin the analysis of the data. NOTE: save the data collected because you will continue to perform additional analysis of the data as the term progresses. Hint: for collecting data, try the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics website. You will have to do some searching to find the data. Look around the reference website, the data are there.

For the first module, you need to collect cumulative data for all U.S. major carriers for the time period of January 2006 through December 2012. The data you collect should include monthly load factors, monthly revenue passenger miles, and monthly available seat miles (Domestic flights only).

Once you have collected the data, clean the data as necessary (i.e. sometimes monthly data will include a total for each year in the data set). If you keep the annual total in the data set it could skew some of your results. Also, remember the question asks for domestic data only. For the period in question calculate the following summary statistics for each data item collected:

Mean

Median

Mode

Standard Deviation

Variance

Minimum and maximum

In addition to data for all U.S. carriers collect the same data of a single U.S. airline, clean the data, and calculate the same summary statistics for the particular airline you selected.

Create a scatter plot for all of the US airline data with revenue passenger miles on the y-axis and load factor on the x-axis. Do the same for the individual airline you have selected. Make sure your scatter plot includes a title of the plot, labels the x and y-axis with appropriate titles, and uses appropriate scales for each axis (refer to your textbooks for examples).

After completing the above items, prepare a brief (three to four paragraph) discussion of the summary statistics, perceived relation between load factor and revenue passenger miles (if any), how your selected airline appears to be performing relative to the industry, and any other information you can glean from the data collected. Your write-up should also include a brief discussion identifying where the data was obtained from. Ensure sources are cited and formatted in accordance with current APA format.

This assignment is intended to get you to start thinking about what your data may or may not be telling you. Certainly, this early in the term we have not discussed the tools necessary to draw strong inferences. However, there are items which may appear to be apparent that can be discussed.

Be sure to include summary tables of summary statistics, the scatterplots, and the excel spreadsheet with the data in addition to the brief write-up. When you submit your assignment, use the following naming convention:

Lastname.Firstname.Course.Activity.fileextension. For example, I would have two documents to turn in: Mau.Ron.MBAA522.1.4.docx. and Mau.Ron.MBAA522.1.4.xlsx.

Review the Data Assignment RubricPreview the documentView in a new window before submitting your completed assignment. Read through the rubric carefully and note that spread sheets must include the formulas where applicable. Within a cell with a result, the formula should be visible if the cell is selected. Formulas are not necessary in summary tables, which should just include the results.

Embry MBAA522 Module 2.3 Assignment

A sample of shoppers was selected and asked questions regarding consumer behavior. One of the questions asked was “Do you enjoy shopping for clothing?” Information regarding the responses is below:

Total Responses: 500

Males: 136 responded “yes” and 104 responded “no”

Females: 224 responded “yes” and 36 responded “no”

Construct a contingency table summarizing the above results and answer the following questions:

What is the probability a shopper likes to shop for clothing?

Given a shopper is male, what is the probability the shopper likes to shop for clothing?

Given a shopper is male, what is the probability the shopper does not like to shop for clothing?

Given a shopper is female, what is the probability a shopper does not like to shop for clothing?

Include the excel spreadsheet with the data and in a word document your answers to the questions above. When you submit your assignment, use the following naming convention:

Lastname.Firstname.Course.Activity.fileextension. For example, I would have two documents to turn in: Mau.Ron.MBAA522.2.3.docx. and Mau.Ron.MBAA522.2.3.xlsx.

Review the Data Assignment Rubric Preview the documentView in a new windowbefore submitting your completed assignment.

Embry MBAA522 Module 3.5 Assignment

Using the Hunt Library, locate an academic journal article that discusses discrete random variables or continuous random variables. In a Word document, provide the step by step process you used to locate the article and cite the article in current APA format. For example, to find a certain book, the step by step process would be:

Went to the Hunt Library Website

Clicked on Find Books

Under Search Book type in “Beautiful Mind” and search

Call Number is: QA29.N25 N37 2001 located on 2nd floor main shelves

Submit your completed assignment. Use the following convention when naming files: Lastname.Firstname.Course.Activity.fileextension.

Embry MBAA522 Module 4.3 Data Assignment

You will need to watch all of the videos in this module before beginning this assignment. The information presented and the examples given will help you complete this activity.

In Module 1, you completed an Airline Data Assignment. For this activity, collect the same data for a different U.S. carrier, clean the data, and calculate the following items:

Mean
Median
Mode
Standard Deviation
Variance
Minimum and maximum
For both airlines, (recall you already collected data on one airline in Module 1 and an additional airline as part of this assignment),

Construct 95 percent confidence intervals (alpha would equal what in this case?) for
monthly load factors,
monthly revenue passenger miles, and
monthly available seat miles (Domestic flights only)
there will be six confidence intervals established.
Develop the appropriate null and alternate hypotheses and test if the
monthly load factors,
monthly revenue passenger miles, and
monthly available seat miles
are equal for the two airlines (use alpha of 0.05). 3 sets of independent t tests.
Test if the mean for each airline is equal to the mean for the industry for
monthly load factors,
monthly revenue passenger miles, and
monthly revenue miles: 6 sets of single sample t tests.
After completing the above items, prepare a brief (probably be three to four pages) write-up of the analysis completed above. Items to include in your write-up include

How a given airline is performing relative to industry and
Whether the results are consistent with expectations..
Cite sources and format your document in accordance with the current edition of the APA Manual..
Be sure to include summary tables of summary statistics and a table summarizing the test results. Refer to the readings from Module 1 and the APA manual for formatting issues. Turn in two files for this assignment. One should include the write-up and the other the data and analysis.

Embry MBAA522 Module 6.3 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research Assignment

In Qualitative Data Analysis, Miles and Huberman (1994)* quoted Fred Kerlinger as saying, “There’s no such thing as qualitative research. Everything is either 1 or 0” (p. 40), but also quoted D. T. Campbell as saying, “all research ultimately has qualitative grounding” (p. 40). It is important, however, to understand that qualitative and quantitative research are valued in the research world and are often used together under a single research project.

Prepare a short essay (approximately 1,000 words) written in current APA format comparing and contrasting quantitative and qualitative research. Be sure to include the advantages and disadvantages of each and share which method you prefer.

Embry MBAA522 Module 7.3 Data Assignment

Use this data set xlsx) to perform a regression analysis, note that a multiple regression analysis will be completed in activity 8.3. Be sure to plot the data and plot and include various graphs that would help determine if the data is normally distributed (which is an assumption of ordinary least squared regression). Write-up a short summary in current APA format of the results. Be sure to include the resulting model (equation) for the relationship determined by the regression analysis and an interpretation of the model. At the 0.05 significance level is there evidence of a relation between assessed value and heated area of house?

Assessed Value Heating Area Age
184400 2000 3.42
177400 1710 11.50
175700 1450 8.33
185900 1760 0.00
179100 1930 7.42
170400 1200 32.00
175800 1550 16.00
185900 1930 2.00
178500 1590 1.75
179200 1500 2.75
186700 1900 0.00
179300 1390 0.00
174500 1540 12.58
183800 1890 2.75
176800 1590 7.17

Embry MBAA522 Module 7.5 Regression Assignment

In Modules 1 and 4 you used some data you collected on two airlines, along with some data on the airline industry. Use the same data to perform a regression using load factor as the independent variable and revenue passenger miles as the dependent variable for one of your airlines. Summarize your results and include a description of what you would anticipate the relation between the two variables to be and what the actual results indicate. Are the results statistically significant? Be sure to include a table summarizing your results and a scatterplot of your data that include

Embry MBAA522 Module 8.3 Data Assignment

Usethis data set (xlsx) to perform a multiple regression analysis. Write-up a short summary in current APA format of the results. Be sure to include the resulting model (equation) for the relationship determined by the regression analysis. Your summary should also include a discussion regarding the statistical significance of each of the independent variables and explanation of the results. Do not forget to include other results we have discussed in previous module that may be helpful in your write-up.

Assessed Value Heating Area Age
184400 2000 3.42
177400 1710 11.50
175700 1450 8.33
185900 1760 0.00
179100 1930 7.42
170400 1200 32.00
175800 1550 16.00
185900 1930 2.00
178500 1590 1.75
179200 1500 2.75
186700 1900 0.00
179300 1390 0.00
174500 1540 12.58
183800 1890 2.75
176800 1590 7.17

Embry MBAA522 Module 9.3 Data Assignment

For this data assignment, complete the following:

Use the contingency table you constructed in Module 2 to determine if there is evidence of a significant difference between proportions of males and females who enjoy shopping for clothing at the 0.01 level of significance. Determine the p-value in (a) and interpret its meaning.