For policy purposes, Social Science researchers are always interested in the relationships between or among variables. When two variables are related, a 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 X2 - Motivation performance X4-Employee Pearson 1.00 0.593** * Correlation performance 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 presence of relationship [2 marks] ii. nature of the relationship [2 marks] iii. direction of the relationship [2 marks]