BUS2307-A manufacturing company with 100 employees

Sampling Scenarios

Prompt:

Identify if the sampling plan is appropriate for the given scenario. Justify your decision based on the characteristics of the plan, the ease or difficulty of carrying out the plan, and any sampling errors likely to occur due to the sampling plan.

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.

Scenario 1: 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.