The top management of a well know manufacturing firm in Kenya engaged a consulting firm to study on factors that is leading to high low productivity in their company. The consulting firm employed descriptive research design and a structured questionnaire in collecting data from a sample of 400 respondents. The questionnaires were prepared before analysis commenced. The findings of the study were that working condition, employee remuneration and leadership stsyle were the major causes of the observed problem.

Required 2. Write down the research objectives in this study (2 marks)

3. Explain the steps the researcher would have followed to arrive at the sample size chosen for the study ( 2 marks)

4. Describe the research design adopted in the study and explain its uses (3 marks)

5. Describe data preparation as applied in the case above. (3 marks)