Posted: April 24th, 2025

Survey Questionnaire

Instructions: Consult the

CCSG (umich.edu)Links to an external site.

  (select the chapter on ‘Questionnaire Design’).   Submit a draft of a Survey Questionnaire that you will use to explore the company you choose for your final paper (see the student sample below). Please consult the following criteria:  

1. Typical American knowledge and attitudes about a country of your choice,
2. on the condition that the country has a free trade agreement with the United States of America.Links to an external site.
3. Students may consult other resources about survey design, and about the cultural background of the specific country.  
4. Students are required to submit a 10-item questionnaire that they will use to explore typical American knowledge and attitudes about the culture, economy, and business environment of a country with free trade agreement with the United States. 
5. Students are required to use this questionnaire to further their research about the country that will be the focus of their final paper.  Please note that you may use any contact you have to complete the questionnaire.  You may also use your classmates as a source to complete the Survey Questionnaire.
6. Students will be expected to conduct the survey and submit a report for a subsequent session assignment (See Session Overview 6). 
7. Students may start conducting the survey upon completion of this assignment. However, students are expected to implement feedback from the instructor on the final survey questionnaire. 
8. The final survey questionnaire will form the basis of the report due in Session 6 and must be included as an appendix with the report. 
9. The final paper is expected to incorporate insights from the results of the survey.  For example, such a survey can provide an assessment of American attitudes and knowledge about a foreign country, which in turn can inform international business planners about what level and type of training will need to be conducted among American citizens who may be assigned to work in the foreign country on behalf of a US company.
10. Submitted documents must always be formatted in APA style (7th edition).
11. Here are some tips about how to write your questionnaire:

    The first part of the questionnaire (preliminary/introduction questions) may be written to require respondents to self-identify in terms of demographic (Age, Sex, Professional/Education experience, etc.).  This will be useful for analysis in terms of how the results relate to ‘typical’ American knowledge and attitudes. 
    Survey questions must be focused on Economics, Culture and Ethics (including religion), International business, the trade agreement, corruption and ease of doing business etc.
    Survey questions must not be open ended as in “What do you think?” or irrelevant: “Do you Drink?” Instead relevant and closed questions are to be chosen, for example: Multiple choice questions, comparison questions between America and the country of your choice; True or false questions; questions exploring the strength of agreement with a factual statement (for example, strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree) etc.  All questions must relate to the subject matter detailed in number ‘2’ above.
    Since this is a survey that students will be required to conduct, the questionnaire should be designed in such a way that it takes as little time and effort as possible for respondents to complete it.  
    The minimum sample size for the survey is ten.
    Please see a student sample here Download here.

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Instructions:

Please find below a student sample of a survey questionnaire adapted from an actual student submission. Please note:

1. Students must make submissions that are entirely independent of this sample. As always, submissions will be checked for plagiarism.

THIS STUDENT SAMPLE IS PART OF THE STUDENT REPOSITORY AGAINST WHICH TURNITIN WILL CHECK FOR PLAGIARISM.
Therefore, students must ensure that they do not use this sample as a template or a boilerplate for their questionnaires.

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. Please note that the questions on this sample are not exhaustive (please see instructions for the assignment). Only a random 10 questions was selected to be included in this sample. Ways in which each student’s submission can be different include

a. The specific country that students select.

b. The specific socio-cultural and economic perspectives that each student intends to explore.

c. The specific industry or industries that students want to focus on for their paper.

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d. The specific nature and history of the relationship between the United States and the country of choice.

Topic: APA Formatting

Student Name: Sarah C (adapted from)

Southern Wesleyan University

MGMT 5000: Fruit Management

Dr. Professor Name

April 8, 2020

Appendix – Survey Questions

1) Select the age range that applies to you

a. 18 years old or younger

b. Between 19 and 30 years old

c. Between 31 and 45 years old

d. Between 46 and 60 years old

e. 61 years old or older

2) Highest education level?

a. Some high school

b. High school Diploma or GED

c. Associate’s Degree

d. Bachelor’s Degree

e. Master’s Degree

f. Ph.D.

g. None

3) Work Experience?

a. None

b. 1-5 years

c. 6-10 years

d. 11-20 years

e. 21-30 years

f. Over 30 years

g. Retired

4) Choose the option that most accurately applies to you: I can identify [Country X] on a map

a. Definitely

b. Maybe

c. No

5) Which of the following do you think is Country X biggest export to the U.S.?

a. Computers

b. Silk

c. Wheat

d. Rubber

e. Diamonds

6) The workweek in country X is quite different from that of the U.S. Choose the correct answer:

a. Country X work week consists of 6 full days

b. Country X work week is from Sunday to Thursday

c. Country X work week consists of 4 full days

d. Country X work week is from Tuesday to Saturday

7) To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The religious background of Country X needs to be taken into account when working with companies within the country.

a. Strongly Disagree

b. Disagree

c. Neither Agree nor Disagree

d. Agree

e. Strongly Agree

8) On a scale from 1 to 5, how important is it to understand political tensions when working overseas in a country like Country X?

a. 1 (not at all)

b. 2 (a little)

c. 3 (somewhat)

d. 4 (mostly)

e. 5 (fully)

9) Do you think the trade agreement between Country X and the U.S. has been beneficial for both countries?

a. Yes (but more so for the US)

b. Yes (but more so for country X)

c. No (not at all)

d. No (but useful in other ways)

10) On a scale from 1 to 5, how reliable and trustworthy do you think business partners and business relations are in country X?

a. 1 (not at all)
b. 2 (a little)
c. 3 (somewhat)
d. 4 (mostly)
e. 5 (fully)