Data Analysis report. Accounting, Finance, SPSS Coursework

Data Analysis Report
LatifaAlnuaimi
Research Methods in Business (MGT 524)
Instructor:
Abu Dhabi University
Date:
Executive Summary
The report analyses the factors affecting economic performance focusing on the descriptive analysis, reliability test, regression analysis and correlation analysis. Cronbach's Alpha was used to evaluate whether the data was reliable. The data collected was analyzed to determine the impact of sustainable policy, lean management, social responsibility and management of inputs on economic performance. The predictors were determined to be positively correlated with economic performance. Management practices such as lean management are associated with sustainability policy. Besides the business practices, the efficient use of resources improve productivity and economic performance.
Model Description
The independent variables are: Sustainable Policy (SP), Lean Management (LM), Social Responsibility (SR) and Management of Inputs (MIP). The null hypothesis is that these factors d not influence economic performance, whereby when P-value < 0.05; reject the null hypothesis and if P-value > 0.05; fail to reject the null hypothesis. For the firm, there are frequency measures for the top management and the middle management, while for the employees the valid categories are those with less than 500 and those with between 500 and 1500.
* A sustainable policy reflects the strategies and procedure to meet current and future needs with emphasis on equity in the use and distribution of resources, where practices create value, maximize positive impacts and minimize the negative impacts.
* Lean management is managing organizations and optimizing resources to facilitate continuous improvement, which improves the quality and efficiency.
* Social responsibility is the commitment, duty and obligations that individuals have or as members of a group or organization for the benefit of a just society and may include protecting the environment.
* Management of inputs relates to the resources in management including assets, human resources and investments that improve performance.
* Economic performance focuses on analysis of productivity when considering the business activities and may look into different measures such as growth capacity, efficiency in use of scarce resources, sales, profitability and employment.
Descriptive Analysis
Descriptive statistics are statistical techniques and procedures that summarize, organize, and simplify the data. This includes the measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion or variability.
Descriptive Statistics


N

Sum

Mean

Std. Deviation

Variance

SP

123

459.33

3.7344

.63727

.406

MIP

123

468.25

3.8069

.60124

.361

LM

123

459.33

3.7344

.58043

.337

SR

123

483.00

3.9268

.62948

.396

EP

123

507.33

4.1247

.59045

.349

Valid N (listwise)

123





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