HRMG 4203 Week 5 Three Cause Candidates Example

Course	HRMG 4203 Human Resource Management: Analysis and Problems
Week	Week 5
Paper type	Cause candidates paper
Length	About 860 words, 6 pages
Format	APA 7 student paper
School	Walden University
Program	BS in Business Administration
Updated	October 2026

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Three Candidate Causes for the Commerce Street Hotel's Weekend Departures, Each Given Its Best Case: A Squeezed Cleaning Window, a New Supervisor and Outside Offers, With What Each Predicts

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What this page is doingThe title names the three candidates and promises a fair hearing and testable predictions for each.

Three Candidate Causes for the Commerce Street Hotel's Weekend Departures, Each Given Its Best Case: A Squeezed Cleaning Window, a New Supervisor and Outside Offers, With What Each Predicts

How the Candidates Are Presented

Last week's definition holds that at the Commerce Street Hotel, the case's imagined convention property, the newest weekend attendants, those under six months on the job, have been leaving far faster than anyone else since April. This paper sets out three candidate causes. Each gets the same four parts: the mechanism in plain steps, the case facts that first suggested it, what the exhibits should show if it is true and what finding would count against it. No candidate is judged here, and none is given more space or more vivid language than the others, since a longer section can tilt a reader before any evidence is weighed. In an essay first published in 1890, Chamberlin (1965) argued that holding several working hypotheses at once protects an analyst from falling in love with the first one, and Platt (1964) added that the useful hypotheses are those that make different predictions.

What this page is doingThe paper explains its four-part structure first, so every candidate is treated the same way.

Candidate 1: Late Checkouts and a Fixed Quota

Mechanism. On March 1 the hotel began selling late checkout until 2 p.m. Each late checkout delays when a room can be cleaned. The room quota stayed at 15 per shift. On days with many late checkouts, attendants must clean the same number of rooms in a shorter afternoon window, with check-in still at 3 p.m. The work becomes rushed and the shift runs long or ends with rooms unfinished. New attendants, still slow at the job and assigned the heaviest floors, feel the squeeze most and leave.

Suggesting facts. Late checkouts averaged 64 rooms on weekend days against 12 on weekdays, heaviest on the convention floors, 14 to 22. Weekend overtime more than doubled and Sunday complaints about unready rooms rose roughly fivefold.

Predictions. Departures should rise after March, not before. The rise should concentrate on the weekend team and should be largest in months or weeks with the most late checkouts. If floor assignments were available, leavers should cluster on the convention floors.

Against it. A rise that began before March, or one that did not track late-checkout volume, would count against this candidate.

Candidate 2: The May Promotion

Mechanism. On May 6 an internal candidate was promoted to weekend supervisor. If her practices, how she assigns floors, how she treats new attendants or how she handles complaints, were harsher than her predecessor's, new attendants on her team would have more reasons to leave. New employees are especially sensitive to their first supervisor, since that relationship shapes much of what they learn about the job (Bauer et al., 2007).

Suggesting facts. The supervisor changed during the period of rising departures, and the case calls her "experienced," which tells us nothing about her approach.

Predictions. Departures should rise after May, whatever the late-checkout volume, and should concentrate among attendants reporting to her.

Against it. Any rise that began before May would count against this candidate, since a cause cannot follow its effect.

What this page is doingEach candidate's mechanism is written in steps, which exposes how it is supposed to produce the pattern.

Candidate 3: Easy to Leave, Reasons to Go

Mechanism. March and Simon (1958) argued that turnover depends on two things: how desirable it is to leave and how easy it is. If outside employers in the area began offering more pay or better hours, attendants with little invested in the hotel, new ones especially, would find leaving both desirable and easy. Job embeddedness research adds that new employees have few links, little fit and little to sacrifice by leaving (Mitchell et al., 2001).

Suggesting facts. Seventeen of 26 exit forms ticked "better opportunity." Most leavers were new.

Predictions. Because pay is identical on both teams, outside offers should pull on both teams. This candidate predicts a rise in departures on the weekday team as well as the weekend team, roughly in proportion to how many new attendants each team has.

Against it. A rise concentrated on one team, beyond what its share of new hires explains, would count against this candidate as the main cause, though outside pull could still raise turnover everywhere.

The Software, Set Aside

The new room-assignment software went live on every shift in June. It may have frustrated some attendants, but it reached weekday and weekend teams alike and arrived two months after departures began rising. It therefore has no way to produce a pattern that starts in April and is confined to weekends. It is set aside rather than tested.

What this page is doingOne explanation is set aside with a stated reason, so readers can see why it is not a fourth candidate.

What Each Candidate Predicts

The table shows where the candidates part ways: on timing, on which team is affected and on whether departures track late checkouts. Those are the details that will decide among them next week.

Table 1

Predictions for the Three Candidates

Prediction	Late checkouts and quota	May promotion	Outside offers \|
Rise begins	After March	After May	Whenever offers appeared \|
Team affected	Weekend mainly	Weekend only	Both teams \|
Tracks late-checkout volume	Yes	No	No \|
New hires most affected	Yes, on heavy floors	Yes, under the new supervisor	Yes, on both teams \|

Composite case. The next analysis weighs the case's details against these predictions.

References

Bauer, T. N., Bodner, T., Erdogan, B., Truxillo, D. M., & Tucker, J. S. (2007). Newcomer adjustment during organizational socialization: A meta-analytic review of antecedents, outcomes, and methods. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(3), 707-721. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.92.3.707

Chamberlin, T. C. (1965). The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science, 148(3671), 754-759. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.148.3671.754 (Original work published 1890)

March, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1958). Organizations. Wiley.

Mitchell, T. R., Holtom, B. C., Lee, T. W., Sablynski, C. J., & Erez, M. (2001). Why people stay: Using job embeddedness to predict voluntary turnover. Academy of Management Journal, 44(6), 1102-1121. https://doi.org/10.5465/3069391

Platt, J. R. (1964). Strong inference. Science, 146(3642), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.146.3642.347

HRMG 4203 Week 5 instructions, in plain terms

For Week 5 you set out the rival explanations for your defined problem, without judging them yet. Pick two to four candidates the case genuinely supports. For each, write the mechanism as a short chain of steps, the case facts that suggested it, what the evidence should show if it is true and what finding would count against it. Treat every candidate with the same structure and similar length, so none is favored by presentation. If you set an explanation aside entirely, give the reason. End with a table of predictions showing where the candidates differ, since those differences will decide among them.

Inside the HRMG 4203 Week 5 example

The opening restates the problem definition and explains the four-part structure, citing Chamberlin on multiple working hypotheses and Platt on hypotheses that predict different things. The late-checkout section walks through the shortened cleaning window, the fixed quota and the new hires on heavy floors. The supervisor section draws on Bauer and colleagues on newcomers' dependence on a first supervisor. The outside-offers section applies March and Simon and Mitchell and colleagues on embeddedness, predicting a rise on both teams. A short section sets the software aside because it reached every shift in June. A four-row table compares the timing, team, link to checkout volume and new-hire effect each candidate predicts. Each candidate's section closes on the finding that would count against it, so the reader leaves with a test for all three.

Where the marks sit in the HRMG 4203 Week 5 rubric

Cause papers are graded on fairness and testability. Each candidate should receive the same four parts and roughly equal space, since an uneven treatment tilts the reader. Mechanisms written as steps earn credit because they show how the cause would produce the pattern. Predictions should be specific enough that the case's exhibits could confirm or refute them. Stating what would count against each candidate is essential. Setting aside an explanation with a clear reason shows judgment. The prediction table earns substantial credit when it highlights where candidates diverge. A paper that argues for one cause this week, or that lists candidates without predictions, falls short of what the assignment asks.

HRMG 4203 Week 5 help from the desk

List every explanation people in your case offer, then keep the two to four with some basis in the facts. For each, write how it would work, step by step, as if explaining it to a skeptic. Then ask: if this were the cause, what would the records show, and when? Write a finding that would make you drop it. Check that every section has the same parts. Finally, line up the predictions in a table and look for the rows where candidates disagree. A frequent shortfall is a candidate with no prediction attached. Another is an obvious favorite with more vivid writing than the rest. If you are unsure which explanations to keep, share your symptom list and we can help.

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HRMG 4203 Week 5 questions, answered

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The three cause candidates and the prediction table are published below, no payment required.

What three causes does the HRMG 4203 Week 5 paper consider?

Late checkouts against a fixed room quota, the weekend supervisor promoted in May and outside job offers.

Why is the software set aside?

It reached every shift in June, two months after departures began rising, so it cannot explain a weekend-only pattern.

What does the outside-offers candidate predict?

Rising departures on both teams, because pay is identical across weekday and weekend attendants.

Where do the candidates part ways?

On when the rise begins, which team it affects and whether it tracks late-checkout volume.