For policy purposes, Social Science researchers are always interested in the relationships between or among variables. When two variables are related, the desired policy outcome can be achieved by manipulating one of such variables. Table 1 illustrates one of such research outputs. Table 1: Correlation analysis of motivation and employee performance X4 - Employee performance X2 - Motivation X4-Employee performance Pearson Correlation 1.00 0.593*** Sig. (2-tailed) . .000 N 612 612 *** Coefficient is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed) Study the results carefully and explain them in terms of i. presence of relationship ii. nature of the relationship iii. the direction of the relationship