In each of the assignments in this course, you will be dealing with the following scenario: American Intellectual Union (AIU) has assembled a team of researchers in the United States and around the world to study job satisfaction. Congratulations, you have been selected to participate in this massive global undertaking.

The study will require that you examine data, analyze the results, and share the results with groups of other researchers. Job satisfaction is important to companies large and small, and understanding it provides managers with insights into human behavior that can be used to strengthen the company's bottom line.

The data set for the study is a sample of a survey conducted on the population of the American Intellectual Union (AIU). This session's unique data set may be found in the LEARNING MATERIALS and it contains the following nine sections of data that will be used throughout our course:

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  • Gender
  • Age
  • Department
  • Position
  • Tenure
  • Overall Job Satisfaction
  • Intrinsic Job Satisfaction: Satisfaction with the actual performance of the job
  • Extrinsic Job Satisfaction: external to the job,for example,office location, your work colleagues, your own office (cubicle/hard walled office, etc),
  • Benefits: Health insurance, pension plan, vacation, sick days, etc.