You calculate the correlation between work load and job satisfaction in a group of employees in an organization you are studying. You find that as work load increases satisfaction decreases. Your finding represents a ________ relationship between job experience and productivity.
A) positive
B) curvilinear
C) negative
D) polylinear

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A negative relationship means that as one variable increases, the other decreases, which is what is seen in this scenario. A positive relationship would mean that as work load increases, job satisfaction also increases, which is not what was found. Curvilinear and polylinear relationships involve more complicated patterns that cannot be determined from the given information.

You Calculate the Correlation Between Work Load and Job Satisfaction