A manufacturing company with 100 employees wants to conduct a survey to determin

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A manufacturing company with 100 employees wants to conduct a survey to determine how their employees feel about existing company policies. The HR manager decides to divide the company into five clusters, Sales (18 employees), Engineering (5 employees), Production (57 employees), Maintenance (12 employees) and Management (8 employees). She then randomly chooses Sales to complete the survey and all 18 members of the Sales department are given the survey.

Response parameters: Indicate whether you think the sampling plan is appropriate for the scenario and explain why. Your response should address the reason to use/not use the Sampling Plan including possible sampling errors.

Explanation / Answer

This sampling plan is not appropriate because the sample set chosen does not represent the true populaation.

It is possible that all the employees may not feel the same as the sales employees. Only 18 employees in Sales are there vs 57 employees in production. It is possible that a sample from production may be more representative of the 100 employees that from sales. This is a biased sample set.

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