MITH 100
PRACTICE EXERCISE 2
FIRST SEM 2021-2022
We are interested on the profile and characteristics of organizational
managers in the hope of finding out what characteristics define the effective ones. In
order to do this, we operationally defined managerial effectiveness as:
ME: percentage of an organizational plan successfully carried out over a plan period
Thus, a manager who successfully implements 80% of an organizational plan is
considered more effective than another who implements only 70% of the plan. Next, we
categorize the characteristics of the managers in terms of: Personal and Demographic
Characteristics as follows:
Personal Characteristics:
A: age of the manager
G: gender of the manager (0: female, 1: male)
MA: mental ability of the manager as measured by his/her IQ
HR: human relations skills
The human relations skills of a manager is measured as follows: the direct
subordinates of a manager are asked to describe the way that their manager relates to
them in terms of 10 adjectives (e.g. fair, nice, cruel, dictatorial etc.). Each subordinate will
generate a score equal to the number of positive adjectives divided by 10. The HR score
of the manager is equal to the average of the subordinates’ scores.
Demographic Characteristics
ED: educational attainment of the manager (1: College Graduate, 2: Master’s Degree, 3:
Doctoral Degree)
CIV: civil status of the manager (1: single, 2: married, 3: legally separated)
ORG: scale of business (1: small, 2: medium, 3: large)
We gathered observations from 15 managers of various business enterprises in the City
of Cebu and obtained the following data:
DATA
A
38
56
G
0
1
MA HR(%)
129
87.6
130
91.2
ED
1
1
CIV ORG
2
1
2
2
ME(%)
83.44
76.28
MITH 100
PRACTICE EXERCISE 2
47
35
57
53
43
57
35
39
32
33
41
48
44
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
FIRST SEM 2021-2022
128
110
116
127
112
120
119
130
126
128
117
121
121
89.4
87
91.4
90.6
88.6
91.4
87
87.8
86.4
86.6
88.2
89.6
88.8
2
2
3
2
2
1
2
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
2
1
3
1
3
1
1
3
2
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
2
3
2
3
1
2
3
1
78.36
84.8
83.16
77.64
83.84
76.16
84.8
79.32
79.16
80.04
83.08
83.24
82.72
Obtain the appropriate estimates of the measures of central tendency and dispersion
for each column of the data set using EXCEL or any statistical software. Interpret
the output.