Question

13. Generational Differences in Workplace Attitudes. In 2015, Addison Group (a pro-vider of professional staffing services) and Kelton (a global insights firm) surveyed the work preferences and attitudes of 1,006 working adults spread over three generations: baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials (Society for Human Resource Manage-ment website, https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages /millennials-raises-promotions-generations.aspx). In one question, individuals were asked if they would leave their current job to make more money at another job. The file Millenials contains the sample data, which are also summarized in the following table.

Leave Job for More Money?
Baby Boomer

Yes 129
No 207
Generation X

yes 152
no 183
Millennial

yes 164
no 171

Conduct a test of independence to determine whether interest in leaving a current job for more money is independent of employee generation. What is the p-value? Using a .05 level of significance, what is your conclusion

Answer 1

Using Minitab software, (Stat -> Tables -> Chi Square Test for Association), we get the following output :

Now,

The value of chi square statistic = 7.851

and P-value = 0.02

Since P-value < 0.05, so we reject H₀ at 5% level of significance and we can conclude that there is significant relationship between interest in leaving a current job for more money and employee generation.