Management Survey - SPSS Example

Management Survey - SPSS Example Management Survey - SPSS â€" Assignment Example > Critique and Analyses of Survey Data â€" “Management Sciences Institute”, UK, Survey Questionnaire IntroductionThe “Management Sciences Institute”, UK, has prepared a questionnaire that it has distributed to its members so that it could conduct a survey. The primary intention behind conducting the survey is to gather data to assist the organisation in preparing for conferences, publication of its magazines and journals and putting together advertisements for posts required by other organisations to be filled by professionals belonging to it. The organisation has 3,000 members to all of whom the questionnaire was mailed. As in relevance to this report data from 300 respondents has been considered for analyses. Part A - Critique of the Questionnaire The “Management Sciences Institute”, UK, questionnaire is a 27-item affair that is strategically divided into the following five main areas. Questions 1-8 pertain to the members’ personal detailsQuestions 9-14 pertain to th e manner in which members interact with the Institute’s Annual Conference initiativesQuestions 15-20 pertain to the Institutes Publications and the manner in which the members view and utilise themQuestions 21-24 pertain to the Institute’s Website and the manner in which individual members view and utilise itQuestions 25-27 constitute 3 questions that assess how members are involved in the Institute’s activities and how they view its committee After adequate study of the questionnaire and other relevant questionnaires prepared for the same purpose for other professional bodies it is found that the items are all relevant to the issue at hand and they also do the job efficiently. Thus, this critique does not in any manner deem it necessary to either add or detract any item to or from the existing list. Nevertheless, it is found necessary to comment on how some of the scoring of the questions can be done so that analyses of responses can be speedily processed and results can be construed efficiently. Scoring: For this purpose question items are taken individually and main area-wise. Members’ Personal Details: Questions 1-8 that pertains to this area has one singularity. Question 1, which seeks to delineate whether a member is an analyst, manager, consultant or academic constitutes an independent variable upon which the other variables in this area are dependent. Thus, it is necessary to at first determine whether a member is any one of these four categories before the other details elicited can be analysed according to this independent variable. This is done in sections 2 3 of Part B and it is found that results are easily derivable and construable. Thus, it is found that consultants are the best paid of the four while academics have the eldest age group. Now, something must be said as to how the various items in this area can be scored. Question 2 is not considered too germane to the issue at hand. Question 3 is an interesting case as it asks the me mbers to state in which part of England they operate. If the following scale is assigned â€" Scotland (1), North England (2), Midlands/Wales (3), South West England (4) and South East/London (5) it is found that the mean of the highest scale 5 is 2.5. This signifies that if the average score for this item is above 2.5 the members primarily operate in the south of England. Any average below that signify that most members operate above that region more the north. This is a rough but very useful indicator of where most members in a particular category are from.