Exam 10: Decision Making by Individuals and Groups

Associates ____ decisions in high-involvement firms.

A confirmation bias leads decision makers to _____ information that confirms beliefs and ideas, and avoid seeking ________ information.

People who prefer the sensing style of gathering information see themselves as:

A technique in overcoming the problems of standard group brainstorming is:

Managers and associates who use an impersonal rational approach to arrive at their judgments are said to prefer a thinking style.

In choosing between less and more risky options an individual's _____often plays a role.

Decision making relies on both _____ and ______.

With the ______bias decision makers put too much emphasis on the ____piece of information they encounter about a situation.

Satisficing decisions are satisfactory rather than optimal decisions.

Brainstorming is the process in which a limited number of ideas are generated while evaluation of the ideas is suspended.

Although group decision making can produce positive outcomes, the social nature of group decisions leads to undesired results.

In making decisions, individuals with lower risk-taking propensities may collect and evaluate less information.

All of the following are steps in the decision making process EXCEPT:

Individuals who use a sensing style to gather information do all of the following, EXCEPT:

According to Dawn Ostroff, ultimately the people who are successful in the TV business have a tacit ability to make right decisions based on a wide variety of inputs.

All of the following are symptoms of groupthink EXCEPT:

Invulnerability is a symptom of ___________.

Cognitive biases represent:

Decision making is a _______ activity.

The quality and speed of decisions made by managers throughout the organization affect the success of _________ implementation efforts.