All Free Management Sciences MCQs with Answers

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  • A. quantitative measures
  • B. qualitative measures
  • C. open-ended questionnaire
  • D. close-ended questionnaire

Explanation: Qualitative measures use relatively unstructured techniques to uncover a broad range of responses, perceptions and motivations.

Correct answer: qualitative measures
  • A. quality metrics
  • B. perceived metrics
  • C. internal marketing metrics
  • D. loyalty metrics

Explanation: Awareness of organisational goals concerns how well employees understand the company's aims, so it is an internal marketing metric.

Correct answer: internal marketing metrics
  • A. observational research
  • B. psychographic research
  • C. ethnographic research
  • D. demographic research

Explanation: Observational research gathers information by watching relevant behaviour or conditions rather than relying only on respondents' reports.

Correct answer: observational research
  • A. sampling unit
  • B. sampling size
  • C. sampling scale
  • D. sampling procedure

Explanation: The question of how many individuals to survey concerns the sample size, written here as “sampling size.” Sampling unit identifies who…

Correct answer: sampling size
  • A. open-ended questionnaire
  • B. close-ended questionnaire
  • C. quantitative measures
  • D. qualitative measures

Explanation: Qualitative measures help researchers explore perceptions, meanings and motivations about a product or brand, often through open-ended…

Correct answer: qualitative measures
  • A. intention-to-buy scale
  • B. ranking scale
  • C. Two option answer
  • D. least important scale

Explanation: An intention-to-buy scale measures how likely or willing a respondent is to purchase a product.

Correct answer: intention-to-buy scale
  • A. problem definition
  • B. research plan development
  • C. deciding mission statement
  • D. reporting of findings

Explanation: The research plan specifies how the study will be conducted, including the research approach, data sources and sampling plan.

Correct answer: research plan development
  • A. thematic appreciation test
  • B. story appreciation test
  • C. graphic appreciation test
  • D. word appreciation test

Explanation: The thematic appreciation test presents a picture and asks respondents to describe or interpret what they see, often revealing underlying…

Correct answer: thematic appreciation test
  • A. relative employee satisfaction
  • B. level of customer dissatisfaction
  • C. active innovation support
  • D. both A and C

Explanation: Internal marketing metrics assess employee-related conditions, including employee satisfaction and support for innovation.

Correct answer: both A and C
  • A. personifications
  • B. visualizations
  • C. laddering
  • D. associations

Explanation: Visualization techniques ask participants to express perceptions through collages, drawings or other images rather than only words.

Correct answer: visualizations
  • A. unit metrics
  • B. sampling metrics
  • C. marketing external metrics
  • D. procedural metrics

Explanation: Customer loyalty and retention measure the market's response to a firm's marketing and its ability to keep customers.

Correct answer: marketing external metrics
  • A. unit dashboards
  • B. stakeholder's dashboards
  • C. marketing dashboards
  • D. brand metrics pathway

Explanation: A brand metrics pathway links brand strength and equity with longer-term customer outcomes and financial health.

Correct answer: brand metrics pathway
  • A. brand metrics pathway
  • B. unit metrics pathway
  • C. cash-flow metrics pathway
  • D. customer's metrics pathway

Explanation: Brand equity tracks the long-term value created by a brand and its effects on customer behaviour and business performance.

Correct answer: brand metrics pathway
  • A. word appreciation test
  • B. word association
  • C. completely unstructured
  • D. graphic appreciation test

Explanation: In word association, the respondent gives the first word or idea that comes to mind after seeing a stimulus.

Correct answer: word association
  • A. observational research
  • B. data sources
  • C. objective research
  • D. applied research

Explanation: Primary data is collected firsthand, while secondary data comes from existing sources; together, these are classified by their data…

Correct answer: data sources
  • A. unit metrics
  • B. procedural metrics
  • C. marketing external metrics
  • D. sampling metrics

Explanation: Consumer satisfaction measures how customers evaluate their experience with a company or offering, so it is an external marketing metric.

Correct answer: marketing external metrics
  • A. sentence completion
  • B. word association
  • C. completely unstructured
  • D. thematic appreciation test

Explanation: Sentence completion presents an incomplete sentence and asks respondents to supply the missing ending, often revealing attitudes or…

Correct answer: sentence completion
  • A. quality metrics
  • B. internal marketing metrics
  • C. loyalty metrics
  • D. perceived metrics

Explanation: Employees’ willingness to change reflects their attitudes and readiness within the organisation, so it is an internal marketing metric.

Correct answer: internal marketing metrics
  • A. ethnographic research
  • B. focus group researcher
  • C. survey research
  • D. observational research

Explanation: Survey research uses structured questions to measure people’s knowledge, preferences, beliefs, or opinions from a sample.

Correct answer: survey research
  • A. marketing support system
  • B. sampling decision support system
  • C. planning support system
  • D. marketing decision support system

Explanation: A marketing decision support system combines data, analytical procedures, software, and hardware to help managers evaluate marketing…

Correct answer: marketing decision support system