9 pages total: Write 7 pages in APA format (double-spaced) without counting the cover page and reference page to discuss Part 1 & 2. Write 2 pages to discuss the additional data analysis from the spreadsheet and the conclusions you have drawn. Emotional Intelligence in the US Department of Defense/ Department of War is the topic that the following study and paper is supporting. It is not strictly about the Army other sources can be used to support from other military branches. Attached (answer 2) is a draft of the study that’s in the works.
When you write your paper make sure you do the following:
Answer the assignment questions directly.
Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials.
Use evidence from your readings to justify your conclusions.
Be sure to cite at least five credible resources.
Make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the guide to APA Style, 7th edition.
Reading several articles and sources about sampling, about participant recruitment and interaction, and about managing the relationship between research participants and researchers. You will then be asked to think about how these issues apply to your project and your research questions, and to develop an appropriate sampling plan for your study taking all these issues into consideration.
There is one important distinction between qualitative and quantitative sample requirements. Qualitative sample sizes are usually dictated by research method, and are typically fairly small (~25 participants or less). Sample size in quantitative methods is usually dictated by the statistical test method planned, and are usually much larger, ranging from as few as 30 for a low power t-Test, to several thousand for some methods. Quantitative studies at Trident usually range from 100 – 200 participants, depending on program and test method selected. Please review the video resource, Sample Size Estimation and GPower Analysis (Attached closest summary found).
Part 1: In 1 page, describe the basic steps in determining the minimum sample size for a quantitative study using G*Power software.
Part 2: In 6 pages, in accordance with the following Assignment Expectations, describe the sampling issues for your project, in accordance with the following outline:
- Identify the organization within which you are going to be constructing your project, and the nature of the problem that you are investigating.
- Identify the general kinds of respondents within the organization, and the kinds of information that you will need to collect from each group of people in order to complete your project.
- Complete the following grid describing the respondents in your project and some things about them:
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- Identify any additional issues which you think might arise in terms of obtaining cooperation from your respondents or that might complicate getting the information that you need.
Descriptive statistics are used to learn about the characteristics of a measure that is collected over time or may be a measure of an item from a survey administered to many people. Typically, descriptive statistics are the average score (mean), the maximum, the minimum in the scores along with the variation. Descriptive statistics is used to describe the measures rather than to make inference centered around the same item or conceptual construct being measured. Thus, descriptive statistics is not inferential statistics and does not use probability to infer behaviors of a population from which the measures were drawn.
Descriptive statistics fits the background analysis for your firm selected from the attached excel and add more pertinent/ helpful data to support emotional intelligence/ Industrial and organizational psychology constructs. Here you have financial and performance measures of the firm with respect to others in the same competitive space. In most cases descriptive measures can be used to generate trend lines to try and forecast based on past measures.
Examine the secondary data on the US Department of Defense/ Department of War and add more to the data as needed. Look at the sample and review the Excel book and particularly the one on Exponential Smoothing. Calculate some descriptive statistics for your data and prepare some forecast charts. Remember the Forecast Sheet tool on the upper toolbar next to What If Analysis. Produce a spreadsheet with associated graphs; Add this to the growing work you have on the Background for the firm you are studying.
References:
Chapters 1-4 in:
Carlberg, C. (2016). Excel sales forecasting for dummies, 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Dudovskiy, J. (n.d.) Sampling. Retrieved May 10, 2018, from the Research Methodology website at
Rheim, M., Magnussen, L. H., Sekse, R., Lunde, A., Jacobsen, T., & Blystad, A. (2016). Researcherresearched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 11, 10.3402/qhw.v11.30996. Retrieved from
Rowley, J. (2014). Designing and using research questionnaires. Management Research Review. Retrieved May 10, 2018, from
Taherdoost, H. (2016). Sampling methods in research methodology: How to choose a sampling technique for research. International Journal of Academic Research in Management (IJARM ), 5(2), 1827.
Yip, C., Han, N., & Sng, B. (2016). Legal and ethical issues in research. Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 60(9), 684688. Retrieved from