QUESTION THREE (a)

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

X4Employee performance

Pearson Correlation

Sig. (2-tailed)

N

X4 Employee performance 1.00

.

612

X2 Motivation

0.593***

.000 612

*** Coefficient is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

Study the results carefully and explain them in terms of

1. presence of relationship

2. nature of the relationship

3. direction of the relationship

DC: ACD01-F004

4. the strength and significance of association

5. the changes in employee performance that can be attributed to motivation