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Types of Research to be conducted I. When the management decision problem is known: 2). Head of an academic department a. Reporting: Listing of research methods textbooks used in ‘top twenty’ schools. b. Description: Students satisfaction with different textbooks. c. Explanatory: Study to examine the relationship between student examination performance and textbook use (the use of particular books may be positively related to better learning and examination performance). d. Prediction: Student enrollment as predicted by book choice and average course grades awarded in the past. II. When the management decision problem has not yet been specified: 2). Auto Plant Manager a. Reporting: Development of an accident statistics summary. b. Description: Analysis of quality control, defects discovered at final inspection station, by shift and assembly line. c. Explanation: Analysis of high absentee employees by demographic and other measures to determine the “cause” of absenteeism. d. Prediction: Determination of the effect on assembly line output of the elimination of convertibles from the product mix. 3). Admission Director a. Reporting: Weekly summary of inquiries and applications to the university. b. Description: Analysis of applicant rates and acceptances by SAT scores. c. Explanation: Survey of admitted students who decline admission to determine why they declined. d. Prediction: Analysis of weekly application growth rates for purpose of forecasting total applications volume. 4). Investment Analyst a. Reporting: Periodic report of price and volume movements in a selected portfolio of common stocks. b. Description: Comparison of individual stock price and volume movements relative to major price indexes. c. Explanation: Analysis of operating results published for a company in effort to determine causes of profit declines. d. Prediction: Company profit projections for next year. 5). Director of Personnel a. Reporting: A report on employee turnover by department. b. Description: Employee turnover report, classified by department, seniority, marital status, and so on. c. Explanation: An experiment to determine the effect on climate of two different styles of management. d. Prediction: A forecast of staffing needs for the next five years. 2 6). Product Manager a. Reporting: A report on monthly warehouse withdrawals of product. b. Description: Demographic profiles of users of various major brands of toothpaste. c. Explanation: Test marketing of strategies that employ different advertising weights and price levels. d. Predictive: Projection of test marketing results to national sales volume estimates. 7). Housing Programs Officer a. Reporting: Historical record of housing plans approved. b. Description: Demographic profiles of house owners and lessees. c. Explanation: Population ‘net migration’ into the city and building plans approved. d. Predictive: Housing demand forecasts, from population growth and migration. 8). Office Manager for a Dentist a. Reporting: Record of the number of incoming patients on a daily basis. b. Description: Study/categorization of patients’ by ailment categories. c. Explanatory: Relationship between age and ailment frequency. d. Predictive: Forecast of number of dental visits for the next one year, for every existing patient. 3