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Mark is deciding between two interventions to improve writers' quality - implement a Writing Aptitude Test at selection vs. provide professional writing skills training for newly hired contract writers. Information on the interventions being considered is provided in the Table 4. Mark expects the effects of the training to last the entire tenure of the contract.
Table 4. Information related to Writing Aptitude Test
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Number of new hires each year
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50 hires out of 300
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Cost of Aptitude Testing
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$100 per contract writer
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Validity of Writing Aptitude Test
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0.60
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Cost of Writing training
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$500 per contract writer
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Expected performance difference from training
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0.55 of a standard deviation
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Average tenure of contract writer
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7 years
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Dollar value of a standard deviation difference in performance
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$3,000
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1. Using the Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser formula, calculate the total utility of implementing the Writing Aptitude Test. Please show your working clearly.
2. Using the Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser formula, calculate the total utility of providing the professional writing skills training. Please show your working clearly.
3. Describe utility and recommend the intervention that Mark should adopt based on the computed utilities. Explain your choice.
REFERENCE: Bauer, T., Erdogan, B., Caughlin, D., & Truxillo, D. (2019). Human resource management: People, data, and analytics. SAGE Publications.