MSO4735: Management Decision Making - Living Wage - Data Analysis - Report Writing Assessment Answer

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Management Decision Making Living Wage Assessment Answer

Assignment Task: MSO4735 Data Analysis Report Writing Assessment The Living Wage is a voluntary scheme in the UK whereby companies agree to pay employees a minimum hourly rate set by the Living Wage Foundation, an independent organisation. A number of advantages to adopting the living wage are claimed by the Living Wage Foundation including improved retention of employees, and reducing the level of absenteeism. It is also claimed that managers of companies where the living wage has been adopted feel there is an improvement in quality of applicants, an increased rate of retention of employees, and an “increased consumer awareness of their organisation’s commitment to be an ethical employer”. The Living Wage Foundation proposes two levels of wage: London and non-London. (Be aware the Living Wage is not the same as the government’s National Living Wage) Brief You have been asked to investigate the claims above by analysing the data provided in order to recommend whether or not your company, based in London, should adopt the Living Wage. You have two sets of data that you will need to analyse for this assignment.
  1. The first dataset includes the responses of managers in a selection of sectors across the UK to a questionnaire, which is included at the end of these instructions
  2. The second dataset includes data on retention and absenteeism of employees in a number of companies based in London only.
The purpose of this study is to discuss the validity of the claims made by the Living Wage Foundation and, in particular, to consider the appropriateness of adopting the Living Wage in your London based company. Assignment The assignment assesses how well you have understood the techniques taught in class and whether or not you are able to apply these techniques to a given situation. You are expected to write a report, around 6-8 typed A4 pages, detailing your analysis and its interpretation in light of the discussion above. The deadline for the report is Wednesday 24th of April (week 26). I will provide feedback on your report if you submit it to me before Wednesday 17th of April. The analysis should include the following although you may also study other relationships as appropriate.

Data File A – Questionnaire.sav

In this dataset there are six variables, they are answers to the questions on the questionnaire at the end of these instructions. You should include:
  • A brief description of the sample characteristics: the size of the company and whether or not they were based in London. You can assume for the purposes of this assignment that the sample was chosen to be representative of the population.
  • For each of the questions 3 to 6 you should analyse and interpret the responses with particular emphasis on the differences of opinions from managers of London based companies and managers from non-London based companies. You need to discuss clearly the differences between the responses using fully justified techniques.

Data File B – LWDATA.SAV

This dataset has nine variables, detailed below:
  • SIZE: The number of employees in the company
  • TURNOVER: The turnover of the company in the previous tax year
  • LONDON: A qualitative variable that takes the value 0 if the company is not based in London and 1 if the company is based in London
  • LW: A qualitative variable that takes the value 0 if the company has not volunteered to pay its employees the Living Wage and 1 if the company is paying its employees the Living Wage.
  • ECEMPLOYEES: The number of early career employees in the company, i.e. those that have been with the company for less than one year
  • CEMPLOYEES: The number of non-early-career employees in the company, i.e. those that have been with the company for longer than one year
  • PECEMPLOYEES: The percentage of the employees in the company that are early career, i.e. that have been with the company for less than one year
  • PCEMPLOYEES: The percentage of the employees in the company that are non-early-career, i.e. that have been with the company for more than one year
  • ABSENT: The average number of days per employee in the company that are taken off due to illness or other absenteeism
In your file you will be given the data for SIZE, TURNOVER, LONDON, ECEMPLOYEES, and ABSENT. The others will need to be calculated by you using the TRANSFORM option. To analyse this data you will need to:
  1. Calculate the data for the missing variables (above)
  2. Perform a multiple regression analysis on the variables PECEMPLOYEES and PCEMPLOYEES with a choice of independent variables to determine whether the adoption of the Living Wage has an impact on the number of new employees and career employees.
  3. Perform a multiple regression analysis on the variable ABSENT with a choice of independent variables in order to determine whether the adoption of the Living Wage has an impact of absenteeism.
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