For Exercises 3.17 and 3.18 see page 130; for 3.19 and 3.20, see pages 131–132; for 3.21 and 3.22, see page 134; for 3.23 and 3.24, see page 136; and for 3.25, see page 138.
3.18 Job satisfaction.
A research team wanted to examine the relationship between employee participation in decision making and job satisfaction in a company. They are planning to randomly select 300 employees from a list of 2500 employees in the company. The Job Descriptive Index (JDI) will be used to measure job satisfaction, and the Conway Adaptation of the Alutto-Belasco Decisional Participation Scale will be used to measure decision participation. Describe the population and the sample for this study. Can you determine the response rate? Explain your answer.