Exam 7: Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship

________ is an organization in which managers enable subordinates to think creatively in order to maximize the potential for organizational learning.

The tendency of managers to ignore critical information is not as serious as the existence of incomplete information.

Which of the following group decision-making processes is a written approach, without meeting face-to-face, to creative problem solving?

During the last several months at FSE Inc., workers' overtime hours have increased by more than 15%.Based on managers' decisions in the past, James Calloway, a top manager at FSE Inc.decided to hire additional staff.This is an example of

_____ refers to the loss of productivity in brainstorming sessions due to the unstructured nature of brainstorming.

Barbara, a school superintendent, hires an additional teacher whenever the student enrollment in a grade goes beyond 35.This can be classified as a(n) _____ decision.

Which of the following is an advantage of group decision making?

Steven, a marketing manager, wants to budget the advertising for a new product launch.He is trying to determine the amount of money that the company can afford to spend on advertising.Which criterion of decision making is he focusing on?

Two separate groups of managers are given a problem to solve, and then each group presents its proposed solution to top management in an attempt to determine the best course of action.This process is called

Based on decades of research by Kahenman and Tversky, which of the following is true about the confidence managers (and all people) have regarding their intuition and reasoned judgments?

Intrapreneurial managers who leave their current organizations because of a lack of opportunity and start their own companies are known as

Which of the following is a reason why managers fail to generate creative solutions?

According to March and Simon, humans are limited in their ability to interpret, process, and act on information.When the number of suitable alternatives are greater than what a manager can evaluate, Marc and Simon refer to this as

_____ is a critical analysis of a preferred alternative, defending unpopular or opposing alternatives for the sake of argument.

Compare and contrast programmed and nonprogrammed decision making in organizations.

When _____ exists, managers are working blind.

Escalating commitment is the tendency of decision makers to overestimate their ability to control activities and events.

Generating creative alternatives to solve problems may require managers to abandon their existing mind-sets.

_________ is the process that managers use to deal with opportunities and threats by analyzing the options and making determinations, or decisions, about specific organizational goals and courses of actions.

Eileen, a college professor, has to pick a textbook for an upcoming course.She has just enough time to review a few books from the many choices available.She settles for one of the books, even though the best book might be a book that she hasn't yet reviewed.What is this process called?