Central Tendency Think about your chosen field or career pat

Central Tendency Think about your chosen field or career path. How might measures of central tendency be used within your future employment? Be sure to support your answers with examples (either real or hypothetical).

Solution

Central tendency involves the knowledge and usage of statistical terms such as mean, mode, median.

It can be used in one\'s future employment in following ways:

1. It can be used to determine the performance of your sub-ordinates. It will help you determine who amongst your subordinates is performing better than others. It can help you determine the team performance index by considering the \"Mean\" of the individual performances.

2. It can be used to determine how far behind are the other sub-ordinates with respect to the one who is performing best among the lot. It will help you prepare their individual performance measurement indices.

3. It can help you set standards for average performance, that could be used as standard which every employee is supposed to maintain, otherwise, they would need inductions, performance improvement programs, based on how much behind they are lagging than the average standards set forth.