Exam 10: Decision Making by Individuals and Groups

Which of the following was NOT one of the key questions proposed by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale as an "ethics check" for decision makers?

Which of the following products was developed at Herman Miller as a result of their risk taking and creative culture?

Match the following: -Group Polarization

In the rational model, the decision maker strives to:

The closer a project is to completion the more likely escalation of commitment is to occur.

Match the following: -Nonprogrammed Decision

High cohesiveness, directive leadership, and high stress are antecedent conditions for:

The research regarding intuition and managerial roles suggests that:

Evidence suggests that group brainstorming is less effective than a comparable number of individuals working alone.

The social comparison approach and persuasive arguments view have both been used to explain:

In the consideration of whether the right or the left part of the brain should be utilized in decision making, the ideal situation is to be:

Which of the following is a characteristic of quality teams?

Match the following: -Synergy

Match the following: -Normative Decision Model

After giving intuition tests to more than 10,000 executives, research has shown that in most cases higher management positions were not held by individuals with higher levels of intuition.

In a decisional situation where the decision maker can calculate the probability of success for each alternative, conditions are uncertain.

All of the following statements are consistent assumptions regarding intuition Except:

According to the Jung's cognitive style theory and the extension of this model by Myers in the form of the Z model, the first step in the Z problem solving model, which is to examine facts and detail, uses which of the following to gather information about the problem?

Match the following: -Escalation of Commitment

Continuing to support a failing course of action is known as: