RESEARCH TERMS -GLOSSARY

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Words

Meaning

Impact

A marked effect or influence.

HRM practices

HRM practice is a system that attracts, develop, motivates and retain

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employees to ensure effective implementation

Employee

A person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive

level. synonyms: worker, member of staff, member of the

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Organization

workforce.
An organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a

Human resource

business or government department.

The personnel of a business or organization, regarded as a
significant asset in terms of skills and abilities.

Methodology

A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.

"a methodology for investigating the concept of focal points"

Hypothesis

An idea or explanation for something that is

based on known facts but has not yet been

Mean

proved.
To intend to express

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Standard Deviation

Measure of how spread out numbers are

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Regression

Statistical process of estimating the relationship among variables

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ANOVA

Describes the relationship among different variables

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Correlation

Statistical technique that can show whether and how strongly pairs
are related

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Cronbachs Alpha

Cronbach's alpha is a measure of internal consistency, that is, how

closely related a set of items are as a group. It is considered to be a
measure of scale reliability. A "high" value for alpha does not imply
that the measure is unidimensional.

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Karl Pearson

A ratio between the co-variance between two variables to the

product of their standard deviations is called Karl Pearson's
correlation coefficient.

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Spss

SPSS is the acronym of Statistical Package for the Social

Science. SPSS is one of the most popular statistical packages
which can perform highly complex data manipulation and
analysis with simple instructions.

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Methodology

"A Methodology For Investigating The Concept Of Focal Points"

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Sample Size

The sample size is typically denoted by n and it is always a positive

integer. No exact sample size can be mentioned here and it can vary
in different research settings. However, all else being equal, large
sized sample leads to increased precision in estimates of various

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Bank

properties of the population.

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the
public and lends the funds to borrowers. Lending activities can
be performed either directly or indirectly through capital

markets

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Reliability

The ability of an item to perform a required function under

stated conditions for a specified period of time