Research in Business & Management Chapter 1 & MCQ

1.

In academic research, at University level, a verb best avoided in the research question is:

2.

Idea generation by two or more people thinking as freely as possible is formally known as:

3.

What is the difference between research questions and research objectives?

4.

A student plans a research project; it is called A description of IBM. On the limited information we have (the title), which ONE of these best applies to the idea?

5.

What is 'a possible explanation that we may or may not agree with'?

6.

Consider this research question:

Should a new factory procedure be used?

Which management function is the closest match?

7.

Consider this research aim:

To help solve problems of absenteeism.

Which management function is the closest match?

8.

Consider this research aim:

To investigate new markets.

Which management function is the closest match?

9.

Research goes through distinct phases. Which one is in the WRONG position?

10.

Read the following definition by Gill and Johnson (1997):

"A formulation regarding the cause and effect relationships between two or more variables, which may or may not have been tested."

Which one of these does it define?

11.

Projects do go wrong. In one case a student's conclusion was not acceptable. She jumped to that conclusion because it seemed to her to be the right answer. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?

12.

Projects do go wrong. In one case a student could not analyse the data collected; he was not capable. Which ONE of the following would have been realistic and would have helped the most with this problem?

1.

Quantitative data refers to:

2.

Computers are useful for quantitative data analysis because:

3.

A pictogram is: 

4.

A pie chart is: 

5.

Which one of these is not a way of measuring central tendency?

6.

Standard deviation is:

7.

Parametric and non-parametric are:

8.

The way in which this significance is tested using both non parametric and parametric statistics can be thought of as answering one from a series of questions. Which one of the questions below is the odd one out? 

9.

Testing the probability of a relationship between variables occurring by chance alone if there really was no difference in the population from which that sample was drawn is known as:

10.

ANOVA is:

11.

A correlation coefficient enables you to: 

12.

Qualitative analysis software cannot:

13.

After the data has been collected, the researcher is left with most of these things. Which ONE of them will give information to which the researcher was not exposed during the group itself?

14.

Analysis takes place during data collection in:

15.

Which is the odd one out?

16.

What does this define?

The key points that have emerged so far. Includes useful comments about the informants and the setting.

17.

What does this define?

A formal record of your ideas and your reflections, in a chronological format, to help you identify the development of certain ideas and the way in which your methodology developed.