Question: Causes of variation in the time to respond to an application. The personnel department of a large company records a number of performance measures. Among them is the time required to respond to an application for employment, measured from the time the application arrives. Suggest some plausible examples of each of the following.
(a) Reasons for common cause variation in response time.
(b) s-type special causes.
(c) x¯ -type special causes.