THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT PROCESS ON EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA. A CASE STUDY OF MBALE MUNICIPAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL By: WANDULU KOSEA 2011-B141-10072 A REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS OF UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY MAY, 2014 DECLARATION I, Wandulu Kosea declare that the content of this dissertation is
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Date File 1 Chapter One 1) Determine whether the evaluated group is a population or a sample a) Based on a randomly selected group of 500 patients with high cholesterol, it was found that 67% have heart disease. Is this a population or a sample; explain your answer. The randomly selected group of 500 patients with high cholesterol is a population. 67% of that population has heart disease. It is considered a population because it is the entire group of patients that in which we are interested
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marketing orientation are likely to be most successful in their endeavors. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Type of study: Exploratory, Location of study: Wockhardt Hospital,Mumbai Study subjects: doctors and hospital administrators Sample: convenience sampling, Sample size ( govt. as well as private sector) : Ten specialists (doctors) twenty hospital administrators Data collection tools: unstructured, in formal interviews, Primary and secondary data
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which is considered a major among other ones because it throws exact measures of opinions and consumer behavior. The nature of sampling is “that by selecting some of the elements in a population, we may draw conclusions about the entire population” (Cooper & Schindler, 2014). Some examples of sampling methods available to researchers include: “Purposive sampling where Researchers choose participants arbitrarily for their unique characteristics or their experiences, attitudes, or perceptions;
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Throughout the many issues in the workplace, diversity is an issue that needs immediate attention. Our culture is continuously evolving and with that being said diversity in our work environment should be evolving as well. It has been said, “Top performing companies have long recognized that diversity is good for business. But a just released report from The Economist Intelligence Unit finds that a new definition of workforce diversity is emerging. It’s no longer just about avoiding race, ethnicity
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Market Research: How and Why Market Research: How and Why Authors Mullins and Walker, Jr. define marketing research as the “design, collection, analysis, and reporting of research intended to gather data pertinent to a particular marketing challenge or situation” (p. 167). Marketing research is beneficial to any organization because without it, the organization makes decisions based on assumptions or guesses about market conditions and the needs and wants of potential buyers
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design. The participants involved in this research were 40 wives, age ranging from 25 to 65 years old and coming from different cities and towns of Pampanga, who have experienced infidelity of their husbands. Their sample was gathered through snowball sampling. For their theoretical framework, the researchers used the Lazarus model of stress and model of behavioral self-regulation. To quantify it, they used the Coping Orientation to Problem Experienced (COPE) inventory of Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub
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have irregular students of CFAD in all levels. All of these participants were selected through random sampling. This sampling method is conducted where each member of a population has an equal opportunity to become part of the sample. As all the participants have an equal chance of becoming a research participant, this is to be the most efficient sampling procedure. In order to conduct this sampling strategy, the researcher defines the population first, lists down all the members of the population
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favors the supplier. It means that 98.8% of the time the shipment will be kept if only 5% of the shipment is defected. But Ziteck will keep the shipment 92.9% of the time if 10% of the shipment is defected. I think that Ziteck needs to change there sampling size and create a lower cutoff point to make sure they are not receiving extra defects in a shipment. 6. a) .7161 - .2838 = .4323 = 43.23% b) 12.03 would be the average. Setting the average to above 12.00 will decrease your chances of getting
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84 CHAPTER 3 Research design, research method and population 3.1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 3 outlines the research design, the research method, the population under study, the sampling procedure, and the method that was used to collect data. The reliability and validity of the research instrument are addressed. Ethical considerations pertaining to the research are also discussed. 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN It is the blueprint for conducting the study that maximises control over factors that could interfere
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