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Sales Management explores the principles, strategies, and practices involved in leading and directing a successful sales force. The course covers key topics such as sales planning, recruitment, training, motivation, performance evaluation, and the use of technology in sales. Students will analyze real-world case studies, learn about the integration of sales processes with overall business objectives, and develop skills in managing customer relationships and sales territories. Emphasis is placed on ethical decision-making, effective communication, and the role of data analytics in improving sales performance. Through practical exercises, students will gain insights into the challenges faced by sales managers and the tools needed to drive sales success in a competitive marketplace.
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Chapter 1: Marketing Research for Managerial Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following is a technique that is used to picture the relative position of products on two or more product dimensions important to consumer purchase decisions?
A) Retailing wheel
B) Optical scanning
C) Store image studies
D) Perceptual mapping
E) Behavioral targeting
Answer: D
Q2) Marketers are interested in consumer subcultures, as products are often used to enact and support subculture participation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Creating customer profiles and understanding behavioral characteristics are major focuses of any marketing research project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Marketing Research Process and Proposals
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Q1) In a census, a researcher attempts to _____.
A) use the probability sampling technique
B) define the known chance of selecting a subject
C) use a small representative sample to generalize about a target population
D) collect data from a small set of people from a target population
E) question or observe all the members of a defined target population
Answer: E
Q2) Advances in gatekeeper technologies are used to protect one's privacy against intrusive marketing practices.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Accurately determining the cost of doing marketing research is easier than determining the True value of the expected information.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Secondary Data, Literature Reviews, and Hypotheses
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Q1) _____ are sources of internal secondary data.
A) U.S. government documents
B) Articles on Lexus/Nexus
C) Marketing blogs
D) Sales invoices
E) Newspaper websites
Answer: D
Q2) Explain the differences between a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis. Answer: In hypothesis development, a null hypothesis states that there is no relationship between the variables. The null hypothesis is the one that is always tested by statisticians and market researchers. Another hypothesis, called an alternative hypothesis, states that there is a relationship between two variables. If the null hypothesis is accepted, one can conclude that the variables are not related. If the null hypothesis is rejected, one finds support for the alternative hypothesis, that the two variables are related.
Q3) Hypotheses provide the basis for the relationships between constructs pictured in conceptual models.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Exploratory and Observational Research
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Q1) In the context of focus groups, journaling makes it possible for:
A) interviewers to push or spawn websites to participants' browsers.
B) interviewers to encourage groupthink among participants.
C) participants to have a clear understanding of what they are responding to in a study.
D) participants to avoid answering probing questions.
E) participants to provide real-time feedback.
Q2) Due to advances in social media technology, social media analytics has fully replaced traditional marketing research methods.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The optimal number of participants in face-to-face focus group interviews should range from 20 to 30 people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) While not as extensive as traditional ethnography, mobile ethnography provides the ability for researchers to analyze consumers in context.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Descriptive and Causal Research Designs
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Q1) Sampling error can be reduced by decreasing sample size.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a disadvantage of the mall-intercept interview method?
A) It is more expensive than an in-home interview.
B) It is more time consuming than an in-home interview.
C) Mall patrons are less likely to be representative of the target population.
D) It is relatively less convenient for a researcher.
E) Mall-intercept interviews require researchers to spend a lot of time securing a person's agreement to participate in interviews.
Q3) Which of the following is True about quantitative survey research designs?
A) They have high response rates.
B) Concepts and relationships that are not directly measurable cannot be studied using quantitative research designs.
C) It is easy to collect in-depth data using quantitative research designs.
D) They facilitate advanced statistical analysis.
E) They cannot produce precise estimates to identify small differences.
Q4) What are the main objectives of test marketing?
Q5) Discuss the types of errors in surveys.
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Chapter 6: Sampling: Theory and Methods
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Q1) Before polling the students in Scion School of Business, a researcher divides all the current students into groups based on their class standing, such as freshman, sophomores, and so on. Then, she randomly draws a sample of 50 students from each of these groups to create a representative sample of the entire student body in the school. Which of the following sampling methods is the researcher practicing?
A) Simple random sampling
B) Systematic random sampling
C) Stratified random sampling
D) Cluster sampling
E) Snowball sampling
Q2) A benefit associated with detecting sampling error is that it can be determined before a sample is drawn and data collection is completed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Customer lists from credit card companies are a common source of sampling frames.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between sampling error and nonsampling error.
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Chapter 7: Measurement and Scaling
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Q1) Which of the following statements is True of leading questions?
A) They introduce bias and often influence the way a respondent answers a question.
B) They include two or more different attributes or issues in the same question, but responses allow respondents to comment on only a single issue.
C) They involve situations where the question contains two negative thoughts in the same question.
D) They involve situations in which the question is worded in a way the respondent is not sure how they are supposed to respond.
E) They involve a situation in which possible responses can be interpreted in a number of ways.
Q2) What are the requirements of designing measurement scales?
Q3) A comparative rating scale is used when the objective is to have a respondent express his or her attitudes, behavior, or intentions about a specific object.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the difference between a concrete variable and an abstract construct.
Q5) What are the two factors that drive the use of multiple-item scales in research?
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Chapter 8: Designing the Questionnaire
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Q1) A researcher is in the process of putting together a blueprint for training people to complete the interviewing process in a consistent fashion. The researcher is most likely developing a:
A) supervisor instruction form.
B) respondent instruction form.
C) cover letter.
D) screening form.
E) quota sheet.
Q2) Which of the following is True of a pretest?
A) The pretest form serves as a blueprint for training people on how to execute the interviewing process in a standardized fashion.
B) The final version of a questionnaire is evaluated using a pretest.
C) The number of respondents for a pretest is most often between 500 and 700 individuals.
D) A pretest is prepared when the order of the questions, or of the closed-end responses to a particular question, influences the answer given.
E) For pretests, the survey questionnaire is given to a large group of respondents.
Q3) Describe the response order bias and the common methods variance.
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Chapter 9: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Q1) Peer review is a process in which research analysis is reviewed by:
A) key informants who are being studied.
B) external qualitative methodology and topic area specialists.
C) policy makers who will use the study's findings to make decisions.
D) managers who commission the study.
E) the participants of the study who received the placebo.
Q2) Which of the following is True about negative case analysis?
A) It helps to establish boundaries and conditions for the theories developed by qualitative researchers.
B) It mainly involves the determination of mean in numerical data.
C) Negative case analysis is restricted to the data reduction stage of qualitative analyses.
D) It primarily calculates the range of a given quantitative data.
E) Negative case analysis is restricted to the memoing stage of qualitative analyses.
Q3) Member checking best establishes cross-researcher reliability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss how the process of tabulation might keep researchers honest.
Q5) Is qualitative analysis inductive? Explain.
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Chapter 10: Preparing Data for Quantitative Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following statements is True of the fourth step in the data coding process, where a coded value is assigned to each response?
A) It follows the data entry phase of data preparation.
B) It is the step where omissions are either coded or left out.
C) It is necessary if an optical scanning approach is used to enter data.
D) It is tedious because it is done manually.
E) It precedes the data validation phase of data preparation.
Q2) Developing consolidated categories is a subjective decision.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following measures requires that the responses be first arranged in a hierarchical pattern?
A) Average
B) Mean
C) Median
D) Mode
E) Standard deviation
Q4) What is the difference between a one-way tabulation and a cross-tabulation?
Q5) Describe the process of data validation.
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Chapter 11: Basic Data Analysis for Quantitative Research
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Q1) Researchers can use the Chi-square test to determine whether responses observed in a survey follow the expected pattern.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The bivariate t-test does not require interval or ratio data like the univariate t-test.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In order to use the formula to calculate standard deviation, one must first calculate the mean of distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Researchers use analysis of variance to determine the:
A) average distance of distribution values from the mean.
B) distance between the smallest and largest values in a set of responses.
C) statistical difference between three or more means.
D) average value within a distribution.
E) value that appears in a distribution most often.
Q5) How are sample statistics different from population parameters?
Q6) When would you use ANOVA instead of a chi-square test?
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Chapter 12: Examining Relationships in Quantitative Research
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Q1) In a certain town, when the number of automobiles owned went up, the number of service stations for automobiles also went up. This illustrates the concept of _____.
A) coalescence
B) cogitation
C) covariation
D) coexistence
E) convergence
Q2) What are the advantages of using the partial least squares method of structural equation modeling?
Q3) The calculation of a solution using the partial least squares method of structural equation modeling is similar to ordinary least squares regression, but is extended to obtain a solution for path models with more than two stages and variables measured with more than a single question.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss multiple regression analysis.
Q5) Covariation refers to the degree of association between two variables.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Communicating Marketing Research Findings
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Q1) Which of the following guidelines should be followed for preparing good oral presentations?
A) Always be formal in oral communication.
B) Include flamboyant graphics in visual presentations to enhance oral presentations.
C) Have a well-organized and inspiring dialogue prepared.
D) If no questions or comments are being posed within the first five minutes of a presentation, end the session.
E) Avoid the use of visual components in oral presentations.
Q2) Which of the following is True of the introduction in a report?
A) It lists specific research objectives and questions the study was designed to answer.
B) It focuses on specific marketing tactics or strategies a client can use to gain a competitive advantage.
C) It summarizes the findings of a research.
D) It indicates the subject of the report and the name of the recipient, along with his or her position and organization.
E) It lists the topics of the report in sequential order.
Q3) What are the objectives of a professional marketing research report?
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