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Quantitative Methods for Business
JOB SATISFACTION IN GERMANY AND FRANCE
Introduction
The extent to which employees are satisfied with their jobs is an important consideration. After all, satisfied employees may be more productive and more committed. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions gathers information on job satisfaction in 5-year intervals and you are asked to analyse data from the two latest surveys, administered in 2010 and 2015. The sample consists of 5,719 German and French employees. The Excel file labelled ‘CW_DATA’ contains one sheet with the data and one sheet with variable definitions.
Instructions
Using the available data (attached in files), address the question below. Take note of the following instructions. Failure to comply with these will require you to resubmit the assignment.
– The answer should be at most 1 page A4, with 1-inch margins all around, portrait page orientation, Times New Roman 12pt and 1.5 line spacing.
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– The 1-page limit includes any appendices.
– Possible tables and figures must appear large enough to be readable and fit within the margins. Ensure that each table or figure is numbered and named, and unambiguously referred to in-text.
– Q1 has already been done by the candidate. The answer is attached with other files, titled as ‘Regression Analysis’. The Writer is expected to do Q2.
– The Data, and the answer to Q1 are both attached, thus please read both of them very properly before starting Q2.
Assignments
Q1. Job satisfaction may be predicted by employee characteristics, characteristics of jobs, and company characteristics.
Using the tool of regression analysis, does the data set imply support for such expectations?
If so, then which employee, job, and company characteristics predict job satisfaction, and what is the nature of any such effects in terms of their sign and magnitude?
Q2. Job satisfaction may be lowest neither for very young nor very old employees, and so the association between age and job satisfaction may be U-shaped.
Do the data imply support for such an expectation? And is such a pattern evident in individual countries and years?
