The document discusses a problem at Bob's Construction company regarding high employee turnover. The company experiences an average turnover rate of 6 months to 1 year, with employees regularly leaving for other construction jobs. This negatively impacts employee morale and relationships. The research variable identified to investigate the problem is job satisfaction and its relationship to turnover. Data collection methods will include questionnaires, interviews, observations, and focus groups to understand employee feelings about their work and management and determine the root causes of turnover. The data collected needs to be high quality, consistent, and relevant to draw valid conclusions about the problem.

1. Business Decision Making
Ray Dalere
QNT/275(PD17BSB05)
Oct 16, 2017
Jay Deb
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Business Decision Making
PAE
The company that I work for is called Bob’s Construction,
and the main thing that I do there is material handling and
sometimes, I am the customer service representative, with my
work being to answer the phone when prospective customers
call, and given them relevant information. Bob’s Construction is
a company that works on new house constructions, or even
repairs and random jobs that need to be done on houses, mostly
using materials such as wood and glass for the construction. The
company employees over 250 people, all of them specialized in
different fields, thus allowing for constructions projects to be
handled with the professional urgency that they require in order
to have done a good work on them.

2. The company management is composed of 3 departmental
leaders, with one CEO. The three departments include the hiring
and accounting department, the constructions department, and
the employee welfare department. The welfare department is
one that ensures employees have the right tools they need for
the work, the accounting department is useful for calculating
the costs of projects, and determining the fair pay to the
employees, while the constructions department is responsible
for ensuring that the employees always have tasks to work on,
and the tasks they are given are workable within a reasonable
amount of time, and within proper working conditions.
Problem at the Company
The one problem at the company, is in the way the
management approaches the issues of management in actual
sense. This implies a situation whereby, the employees feel that
they are not properly managed, and this has led to the company
experiencing a serious issue of employee turnover. The average
rate of employee turnover is between 6months and 1 year, and
the situation means that employees regularly leave the company
to go and work in other construction companies. This has had
adverse effects on employee morale, because the problem does
not allow employees to form any meaningful relationships that
can be useful even in the long run. Ideally, the employees feel
that their efforts are not valued, which is one thing that could
explain why the employees feel that for the kind of work they
do, they are not properly managed by the management with
respect to the wages, working conditions, and work distribution
done by the company.
Research Variable from the Problem
The one research variable that will be good for
investigating this problem being experienced at the company is
the job satisfaction that the employees have in their job, and
how this relates to issues of employee turnover. This kind of a
variable would allow for the collection of a good amount of
both quantitative and qualitative data to help with coming up
with a conclusion for the level of job satisfaction the employees

3. have towards their roles at work, and the impact of this level on
employee turnover, with regard to whether or not they see
themselves as having a bright future at the company or not.
The first data collection method will be the answering of a
questionnaire that starts with closed ended questions such as
“what do you feel is the level of your job satisfaction
presently?” for such a question, a Likert scale with five entries
will be used for the scaling purposes, with a score of 1 showing
that the person is very dissatisfied at work, and a 5 showing that
they are very satisfied with the work they do. After this
question is answered, the questionnaire will have more
questions touching on the specific aspects of their work that
makes them feel the way they do, and what the employees think
the management can do about it, or whether or not the
management is to blame for what is being experienced. After
the completion of the questionnaire, there will be a face to face
interview between the researcher and the employees, to get a
better understanding of what they feel is the reason that causes
the high rate of turnover, and whether or not the management is
to blame (Gill, 2008). They will also be asked what they think
can be done in order to change the situation around, and this
will be a good means of collecting very relevant information
touching on the causes of the root problem, and how this
problem can be appropriately dealt with by the employees or
even the management.
Use of focus groups and observations will also be another
means of collecting data on this variable. With the observation,
the researcher will simply shadow the employees over the
course of a predetermined working period. In this time, the
researcher will be checking for any cues that are indicative of
the employees’ feelings towards their work, the nature of the
management and how management plays its managerial roles of
governing the employees, and the employee relationship with
the management (Johnson, 2003). The focus groups on the other
hand will be six, and will be composed of 9 members each. The
groups’ tasks will be to address various aspects of their job

4. positions and their roles, and then the results of the interactions
will be used to come up with a model explaining the employee
feelings towards their work.
For this reason, the focus groups will be asked questions
such as what kinds of roles they do, whether or not they are
comfortable in their job positions, what they think the
management could do differently to make their job much easier,
what they consider the most important part of their job, whether
they feel valued as employees, and whether this affects their
ability to deliver on the promises they made when signing up
for such tasks, and how often they think about quitting on a
monthly basis.
Analysis of Data Collection Methods
To analyze whether the data collection method yield valid
and reliable data will involve looking at the kind of data
collected first, whether this data informs on the research
variable selected to be used to conduct this research, the quality
of the data with regard to consistency or diversity of the
answers given by many different employees to the same
question, and finally, the usefulness of the data in terms of
making a conclusion about the main problem that the company
is experiencing.
Expectedly, the kind of data collected should be somehow
consistent among the different employees, because it will be
testing what they feel towards the same job tasks, and the
management of their organization. The kind of data collected
will also be judged on whether or not the information presented
is sufficient enough to help with making a decision on the
problem being experienced at the company. Therefore, the data
collection methods will yield valid and reliable data if the kind
of data collected through such methods is of a high quality, and
is relevant enough to warrant being used to form a deeper
understanding of the problem at hand facing the company
(Pandey, 2016).
References

5. Gill, P., Stewart, K., Treasure, E., & Chadwick, B. (2008).
Methods of data collection in qualitative research: interviews
and focus groups. British dental journal, 204(6), 291-295.
Johnson, B., & Turner, L. A. (2003). Data collection strategies
in mixed methods research. Handbook of mixed methods in
social and behavioral research, 297-319.
Pandey, K. N. (2016). Data Collection, Analysis and
Interpretation. In Paradigms of Knowledge Management (pp.
129-210). Springer India.
Name: ____________Lab Exercise Lesson 7: Mutation
Reading:
· Principles of Genetics, Snustad & Simmons 2012: Chapter 13
· DNA is Constantly Changing through the Process of Mutation
· Loewe, L. (2008) Genetic mutation. Nature Education 1(1)
Video (Orient yourself to basics of mutation by watching these
videos):
Professor Anderson’s Mutation Video
Damage to DNA Leads to MutationLab Exercise
Go to website on Mutations are Changes in Genetic Information
Explore the Concept, Animation (be sure to follow the arrows to
view all the screens), Video pages. Answer the following
questions:
1. Describe the experiments of Hermann Muller (use this lab
website including the videos of Elof Carlson, Chapter 13 in text
reading, and other resources). (Describe the experiments in
detail using summarizing and citing the different resources you
researched (~300 words). (20 points)

6. 2. What did these experiments of Hermann Muller demonstrate?
Why were these experiments important to the study of genetics?
(10 points)
3. Under the Problem tab of this website identify the number of
point mutations between humans and chimpanzees. Take a
screenshot of the highlighted differences and paste the image
here. How many nucleotide differences were there between
humans and chimpanzees in the 379-nucleotide part of the mt
control region? (10 points)
Lab Problems
4. List all possible missense mutations that can occur in a
segment of DNA encoding the amino acid tryptophan. What is
the ratio of transversions to transitions if all single base-pair
substitutions occur at the same frequency? (10 points)
5. How can mutations in bacteria causing resistance to a
particular drug be detected? How can it be determined whether a
particular drug causes mutations or merely identifies mutations
already present in the organisms under investigation? Answer
these questions in terms of experimental procedures. (10 points)
6. The bacteriophage T4 genome contains about 50 percent A:T
base pairs and 50 percent G:C base pairs. The base analog 2-
aminopurine induces A:T —> G:C and G:C —> A:T base-pair
substitutions by undergoing tautomeric shifts. Hydroxylamine is
a mutagenic chemical that reacts specifically with cytosine and
induces only G:C —> A:T substitutions. If a large number of
independent mutations were produced in bacteriophage T4 by
treatment with 2-aminopurine, what percentage of these
mutations should you expect to be induced to mutate back to the
wild-type genotype by treatment with hydroxylamine? Explain
your answer. (10 points)

7. 7. You are screening three new pesticides for potential
mutagenicity using the Ames test. Two his strains resulting
from either a frameshift or a transition mutation were used and
produced the following results (number of revertant colonies):
What type of mutations, if any, do the three pesticides induce?
(15 points)
8. The wild-type sequence of part of a protein is
NH2-Trp-Trp-Trp-Met-Arg-Glu-Trp-Thr-Met
Each mutant in the following table differs from wild type by a
single point mutation. Using this information, determine the
mRNA sequence coding for the wild-type polypeptide. If there
is more than one possible nucleotide, list all possibilities. (5
points)
Mutant Amino Acid Sequence of Polypeptide
1 Trp-Trp-Trp Met
2 Trp-Trp-Trp-Met-Arg-Asp-Trp-Thr-Met
3 Trp-Trp-Trp-Met-Arg-Lys-Trp-Thr-Met
4 Trp-Trp-Trp-Met-Arg-Glu-Trp-Met-Met
9. Acridine dyes such as proflavin are known to induce
primarily single base-pair additions and deletions. Suppose that
the wild-type nucleotide sequence in the mRNA produced from
a gene is
5-AUGCCCUUUGGGAAAGGGUUUCCCUAA-3
Also, assume that a mutation is induced within this gene by
proflavin and, subsequently, a revertant of this mutation is
similarly induced with proflavin and shown to result from a
second-site suppressor mutation within the same gene. If the
amino acid sequence of the polypeptide encoded by this gene in

8. the revertant (double mutant) strain is
NH2-Met-Pro-Phe-Gly-Glu-Arg-Phe-Pro-COOH
What would be the most likely nucleotide sequence in the
mRNA of this gene in the revertant (double mutant)? (5 points)
10. Which of the following amino acid substitutions should you
expect to be induced by 5-bromouracil with the highest
frequency? (a) Met —> Leu; (b) Met —> Thr; (c) Lys —> Thr;
(d) Lys —> Gln; (e) Pro —> Arg; or (f) Pro —> Gln? Why? (5
points)
Purpose of Assignment
This assignment provides students with practice in
understanding how to develop a hypothesis and interpret its
findings. Students will learn to implement the use of these
statistical measures for better business decision-making.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Week 4 Videos; Week 4 Readings; Statistics Lab
Tutorial help on Excel® and Word functions can be found on
the Microsoft® Office website. There are also additional
tutorials via the web offering support for Office products.
Use the same business problem/opportunity and research
variable you wrote about in Week 3.
Note: Do not actually collect any data; think hypothetically.
Develop a 1,050-word report in which you:
· Identify which types of descriptive statistics might be best for
summarizing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
· Analyze which types of inferential statistics might be best for
analyzing the data, if you were to collect a sample.
· Analyze the role probability or trend analysis might play in
helping address the business problem.
· Analyze the role linear regression for trend analysis might
play in helping address the business problem.
· Analyze the role a time series might play in helping address

9. the business problem.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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