Exam 10: Decision Making by Individuals and Groups

A structured approach to decision making that focuses on generating alternatives silently, prevents criticism of alternatives, and uses a voting process to identify group choices is:

What are the individual and organizational influences that induce creativity?

An approach to minimize groupthink is to:

Step one of the Z model uses to gather information.

Match the following: -Social decision schemes

Research indicates that women are:

Match the following: -Satisficing

The initial step in a problem solving, decision situation is:

Responsive creativity is:

A key organizational requirement for participation in decision making includes:

A large municipality that houses 250,000 citizens is trying to decide where to locate a new community recreational center. The problem is relatively unstructured. There is a decision quality requirement that is significant. Not one person has sufficient information and many community groups may desire to provide input. Opportunity for conflict exists between groups and neighborhoods competing for the center. If one person (city manager) makes the decision, many people may not be strongly committed to making the center successful. Would an individual or group be most useful for this decision? Please justify your answer.

Time constraints don't prevent managers from using group decision techniques.

Research has indicated that creative performance is highest when:

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

Match the following: -Devil's advocacy

The model of bounded rationality was first proposed by .

Match the following: -Risk

Searching for the right answer and avoiding problems outside of one's own expertise would be considered an examples of a(n) .

Match the following: -Quality team

The tendency to continue to support a failing course of action is known as consistency theory.