In: Statistics and Probability
In a survey of 848 human resource professionals concerning challenges they faced in the workplace, 319
said that employee retention/turnover was an important challenge and 195 said that employee satisfaction was an important challenge. Complete parts (a) through (c) below.
a. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of human resource professionals who believe that employee retention/turnover was an important challenge.
The 95% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion is
_< π<_
(Round to four decimal places as needed.)
b. Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of human resource professionals who believe that employee satisfaction was an important challenge.
The 95% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion is
_≤π≤_
(Round to four decimal places as needed.)
c. How would a human resource professional use the results of (a) and (b)?
The proportion of survey respondents that said employee retention/turnover was an important challenge was
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equal to
greater than
less than
the proportion of survey respondents that said employee satisfaction was an important challenge, and the two confidence intervals
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overlap,
do not overlap,
so a human resource professional
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would want to prioritize turnover/retention
could reasonably pioritize either issue
would want to prioritize satisfaction
Would want to prioritize satisfaction
For a two tail 95% confidence interval, the critical Z value is z* = 1.96. Hence, the confidence interval is computed as
For a two tail 95% confidence interval, the critical Z value is z* = 1.96. Hence, the confidence interval is computed as
The proportion of survey respondents that said employee retention/turnover was an important challenge was
greater than
the proportion of survey respondents that said employee satisfaction was an important challenge, and the two confidence intervals
do not overlap,
so a human resource professional
would want to prioritize turnover/retention