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  • A. Business markets
  • B. Global markets
  • C. Consumer markets
  • D. Nonprofit and governmental markets

Explanation: Soft drinks, cosmetics, air travel and athletic shoes are bought by individuals for personal use, so the firms compete mainly in consumer…

Correct answer: Consumer markets
  • A. People
  • B. Buying power
  • C. Demographic segment
  • D. Market

Explanation: A market is a grouping of actual and potential buyers who share a need or want and have the ability and willingness to exchange for it.

Correct answer: Market
  • A. latent demand
  • B. irregular demand
  • C. overfull demand
  • D. excessive

Explanation: Overfull demand exists when demand exceeds the quantity the organization can or wants to supply.

Correct answer: overfull demand
  • A. Future Product
  • B. Expected Product
  • C. Latent Product
  • D. Existing Product

Explanation: Latent demand reflects a strong unmet need because no existing product adequately satisfies it.

Correct answer: Existing Product
  • A. Customer
  • B. Fund raiser, contributor
  • C. Voter
  • D. Prospect

Explanation: A marketer seeks a response from another party, known as a prospect when that party is a potential customer or respondent.

Correct answer: Prospect
  • A. we sell quality
  • B. we challenge competitors
  • C. we implement ads
  • D. we sell hope

Explanation: Revson’s statement contrasts the physical product made in the factory with the emotional benefit communicated in the store: “we sell…

Correct answer: we sell hope
  • A. Product
  • B. Show
  • C. Reality
  • D. Service

Explanation: Information can be packaged, exchanged and used to satisfy a need, so marketing theory treats it as a product.

Correct answer: Product
  • A. Durable
  • B. Impulse
  • C. Physical
  • D. Service e. Event

Explanation: Physical goods are tangible products such as food, clothing, and machinery, and they make up the largest share of production and marketing…

Correct answer: Physical
  • A. at least two parties
  • B. each party is capable of communication and delivery
  • C. each party is free to accept or reject the exchange offer
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: A transaction requires at least two parties, communication and delivery capability, and freedom for each party to accept or reject the…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. Managing the marketing process
  • B. Monitoring the profitability of the companies products and services
  • C. Developing marketing strategies to move the company forward
  • D. The art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value,

Explanation: Marketing management goes beyond simply monitoring profits or managing processes: it involves selecting target markets and attracting…

Correct answer: The art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value,
  • A. Meeting needs profitably
  • B. Identifying and meeting human and social needs
  • C. The 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion)
  • D. an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering, value to customers, and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stake holders.
  • E. improving the quality of life for consumers

Explanation: The formal AMA-style definition describes marketing as an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and…

Correct answer: an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering, value to customers, and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stake holders.
  • A. Execution
  • B. Strategies
  • C. Tactics
  • D. Research

Explanation: Marketing success depends on turning plans into actual market activities, so careful planning must be followed by execution.

Correct answer: Execution
  • A. Selling side
  • B. Formulated side
  • C. Management side
  • D. Forecasting sideGet Executive Coaching

Explanation: The formulated side represents the analytical, systematic, and planned aspects of marketing, whereas the creative side depends on ideas…

Correct answer: Formulated side
  • A. mobilize commitment
  • B. consolidation of gains
  • C. monitoring and assessing programs
  • D. creating guiding coalition

Explanation: Unfreezing prepares people to accept change by challenging existing assumptions and building commitment to a new direction.

Correct answer: mobilize commitment
  • A. human process intervention
  • B. techno structural interventions
  • C. strategic intervention
  • D. HRM interventions

Explanation: Cooperative union-management projects change the way work and employee-management relationships are structured, so they are…

Correct answer: techno structural interventions
  • A. unfreezing stage
  • B. moving stage
  • C. refreezing stage
  • D. nonmoving stagePhysical Asset Management

Explanation: Refreezing stabilizes the new culture and makes the changed practices part of normal organizational life.

Correct answer: refreezing stage
  • A. unfreezing stage
  • B. moving stage
  • C. refreezing stage
  • D. nonmoving stage

Explanation: Unfreezing involves diagnosing the existing situation and creating a shared recognition that change is needed.

Correct answer: unfreezing stage
  • A. human process intervention
  • B. techno structural interventions
  • C. strategic intervention
  • D. HRM interventions

Explanation: An organizational confrontation meeting brings members together to identify organizational problems and work through them collectively…

Correct answer: human process intervention
  • A. unconventional
  • B. assertive
  • C. achievement
  • D. autonomousHuman Resources

Explanation: Conscientiousness combines dependability, orderliness and achievement orientation, so achievement is the best option.

Correct answer: achievement
  • A. assertive
  • B. unconventional
  • C. autonomous
  • D. achievement

Explanation: Extraversion includes assertiveness, sociability and energetic engagement with others.

Correct answer: assertive