A company is considering an organizational change which entails adopting the use of self-managed work teams which they hope will lead to higher levels of employee satisfaction. In order to assess the attitudes of employees of the company towards this change a sample of 250 employees was selected and asked whether they favor the institution of self-managed teams. Three responses were allowed: favor, neutral or oppose. The observed frequency of the results of the survey are shown below: Opinion Type of JobFavorNeutralOpposeTotalHourly Worker254035100Supervision453520100Manager20151550Total909070250 Use this data to test the hypothesis that opinion and type of job are independent at the .025 level.

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A company is considering an organizational change which entails adopting the use of self-managed work teams which they hope will lead to higher levels of employee satisfaction. In order to assess the attitudes of employees of the company towards this change a sample of 250 employees was selected and asked whether they favor the institution of self-managed teams. Three responses were allowed: favor, neutral or oppose. The observed frequency of the results of the survey are shown below:

	Opinion
Type of Job	Favor	Neutral	Oppose	Total
Hourly Worker	25	40	35	100
Supervision	45	35	20	100
Manager	20	15	15	50
Total	90	90	70	250

Use this data to test the hypothesis that opinion and type of job are independent at the .025 level.

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