German Manufacturing U.S. labor unionshave traditionally

Chapter 14, Problem 50

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German Manufacturing U.S. labor unionshave traditionally been content to leave the managementof the company to managers and corporate executives.But in Europe, worker participation in managementdecision making is an accepted idea that iscontinually spreading. To study the effect of workerparticipation in managerial decision making, 100workers were interviewed in each of two separateGerman manufacturing plants. One plant had activeworker participation in managerial decision making;the other did not. Each selected worker was askedwhether he or she generally approved of the manage rial decisions made within the firm. The results of theinterviews are shown in the table:Participation No ParticipationGenerally Approve 73 51Do Not Approve 27 49a. Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicatethat approval or disapproval of managements decisionsdepends on whether workers participate indecision making? Test by using the X2 test statistic.Use a .05.b. Do these data support the hypothesis that workersin a firm with participative decision making moregenerally approve of the firms managerial decisionsthan those employed by firms without participativedecision making? Test by using the z-testpresented in Section 9.6. This problem requires aone-tailed test. Why?