Exam 7: Decision Making and Creativity

Decision making is an unconscious process of moving toward a desirable state of affairs.

For the past 2500 years,scholars in most western countries have mainly followed the ____________ model of decision making.

Creative people have a low need for achievement and a strong need to follow rules.

Which of these statements about creativity is TRUE?

As director of new projects,you have just learned that cash flow problems have forced your organisation to cut back product-development activities.This means that two of the eight projects currently being developed must be terminated,along with the employees working on those projects (about 25 per cent of employees in your unit).You have a good knowledge of these projects as well as the performance and seniority of employees who work in your unit.While some projects clearly have a high chance of success,the long-term potential of a couple of them is unknown.Identify the best level of employee involvement in this situation and describe three factors (contingencies)that support this level of involvement.

A decision maker's need to justify their decision tends to cause:

Creative ideas can emerge when asking people unfamiliar with the problem to explore the problem with you.

Google estimates the potential of each applicant using:

Convergent thinking mainly improves which stage of the creative process?

What do impromptu storytelling,morphological analysis and artwork have in common?

Subjective expected utility refers to how much the selected alternative benefits or satisfies the decision maker.

An important resource for creativity is:

An executive was trying to think of ways to increase sales of ballpoint pens among young people.While walking down a street with lots of neon signs,the executive got the idea that young people would want to buy pens with ink in bright neon colours and with pen containers that glow in the dark.This situation is an example of:

Employees tend to be less creative in organisations that punish failure.

The preferred level of employee involvement depends on:

Prospect theory and self-justification are the main causes of satisficing.

Describe the rational choice paradigm of decision making.

What is perceptual defence?

The highest level of employee involvement should occur when the problem is structured (i.e.it is a programmed decision).

Employee involvement tends to weaken synergy in the decision-making process.