Exam 10: Decision Making by Individuals and Groups

Which of the following is a symptom of groupthink?

The prodigal group technique is a technique for overcoming some of the inhibiting forces in group decision making.

Decisions are choices of actions from among multiple feasible alternatives.

According to Dawn Ostroff, ultimately the people who are successful in the television industry have a tacit ability to make right _________.

Decision making is a cognitive activity.

Rationalization is a symptom of groupthink.

The first step in the decision making process is to gather the information.

______decisions are also referred to as boundedly rational decisions.

Brain-writing can be an effective technique for overcoming the problems of standard group brainstorming.

Some individuals gather information through the five senses, while others prefer abstractions.

Moods and emotions are two aspects of affective phenomena in organizations.

Victor Vroom and Philip Yetton developed a decision making model that helps to determine the correct level of associate involvement in the decision making process.

The sensing decision making style might be more appropriate for jobs where _________ decisions are typical.

An associate who does not rely on the facts gathered by their five senses is said to use a sensing decision making style.

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

The ______is a process by which group members collectively make a more risky choice than most or all of the individuals would have made working alone.

Moods and emotions are both part of the unwanted make-up of an individual.

People who use the feeling style are influenced by others' likes and dislikes.

Decision makers who use the intuition style like details and a lot of time to sort through them

The sunk-cost bias causes decision makers to emphasize past investments of time and money when deciding whether to continue with a chosen course of action.