The observer-participant relationship is an important consideration in the design of observation studies. What kind of relationship would you recommend in each of the following cases? Observations of professional conduct in the classroom by the student author of a course evaluation guide. Observation of retail shoppers by a researcher who is interested in determining customer purchase time by type of goods purchased. Observation of a focus group interview by a client. Effectiveness of individual farmworker organizers in their efforts to organize employees of grape growers.
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Through the use of online tools and search facilities, ordinary users can acquire personal information about others. As a matter of fact, anyone with internet access can use search engines such as Google to find out information about another individual. Sometimes, the person who is the subject of research is completely unaware that the information is publicly available. Does this use of search engines pose a threat to the privacy of ordinary people? Explain your answer.
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5. When attendees need housing, what is a method that is utilized?
A) they arrange their own rooms.
B) use the group rate by booking through a reservations department.
C) the meeting sponsor handles all the housing.
D) any of these.
Answer:
6. There are 3 basic types of meeting planners. Those who work for corporations, associations and individual clients.
True or False
7. A guarantee is a contractual agreement about a banquet event.
True or False
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The agricultural market is often cited as an example of a competitive market.
1) Considering realistic conditions, if you insist that the rice market is not a completely competitive market, Explain and explain why.
2) Suppose that the agricultural market is a fully competitive market free of entry and exit, and that individual farmers are like companies in the general market. Then, why are only elderly people who are relatively incompetent in many ways, such as knowledge, information, and workforce remain on the agricultural field?
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Stress is a constant aspect of the modern work environment. There are various methods for dealing with stressful situations but consider this question: who is responsible for dealing with employee stress, is it the employee or the organization? In your initial discussion post, answer the question of responsibility and provide an argument that supports your answer. In addition, describe two methods for an individual to deal with their own stress and two ways an organization to lower the stress of their employees. Your answer should be more than 200 words
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A 30-year-old male who knowingly suffers from heart disease states on his life insurance application that he is a 27-year-old female in perfect health. How do you think the insurance company will treat a death claim made three years later? Do you feel that this is fair to the insurance company? Explain.
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The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products. What is the population of interest?
A.
all the customers who have ever bought a Blu-ray player made by the company
B.
all the customers who have bought a Blu-ray player made by the company and brought it in for repair over the past 12 months
C.
all the customers who have used a Blu-ray player over the past 12 months
D.
all the customers who have bought a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months
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The list of individuals from which a sample is actually selected is called the sampling frame. Ideally, the sampling frame should list every individual in the population, but in practice this is often difficult. A sampling frame that leaves out part of the population is a common source of undercoverage. In the following questions select all choices that apply; to receive credit for the question you must select all the correct choices and only the correct choices.
Question 1. A pollster wants to select a random sample of households in a particular community. The pollster randomly selects a sample of households in the community from the community telephone directory available in the public library. What households are omitted from this sampling frame?
1Households that connect to the internet with their phone line.
2Households that possess only cellphones Households with a second line for the fax machine.
3Households that have moved into the community since the most recent community telephone directory was printed.
4Households with unlisted numbers. Households with more than one line. Poor households (cannot afford a phone)
5Households without telephones.
Question 2. What types of people do you think are most likely to live in the omitted households selected in question 1?
1These people will probably be underrepresented in the sample. lower income people (cannot afford a phone)
2people who choose not to list their numbers people who choose not to have phones
3people who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill
4jobless people who have moved into the community to look for employment since the most recent community telephone directory was printed
5people who drive hybrid automobiles high income people
Question 3. It is usual in telephone surveys to use random dialing equipment that selects the last four digits of a telephone number at random after being given the land-line exchange (the first three digits; note that cell phone exchanges differ from land-line exchanges). Which of the households you selected in Question 1 above will be included in this sampling frame by random digit dialing?
1Households that possess only cellphones Poor households (cannot afford a phone)
2Households with unlisted numbers
3Households without telephones
4Households with land-line telephones that have moved into the community since the most recent community telephone directory was printed.
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Suppose the Chinese economy recovers more quickly than the US economy from our current global recession. Illustrate and describe how this asymmetric recovery across countries will impact our simultaneous equilibrium model from the perspective of the US. Be sure to highlight the changes in the rate of return on $-denominated assets, the rate of return on yuan (CNY)-denominated assets and the exchange rate ($/CNY).
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