16. German Manufacturing To study the effect of worker participation in managerial decision making, 100 workers were interviewed in each of two separate German manufacturing plants. One plant had active worker participation in managerial decision making; the other did not. Each selected worker was asked whether he or she generally approved of the managerial decisions made within the firm. The results of the interviews are shown in the table:

a. Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicate that approval or disapproval of management’s decisions depends on whether workers participate in decision making? Test by using the X2 test statistic.
Use a 5.05.

b. Do these data support the hypothesis that workers in a firm with participative decision making more generally approve of the firm’s managerial decisions than those employed by firms without participative decision making? Test by using the z-test presented in Section 9.5. This problem requires a one-tailed test. Why?

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Generally Approve Do Not Approve Participation 73 222 27 No Participation 51 49