Exam 6: Making Decisions

Groupthink is a group decision-making process in which group decisions can be of higher quality than individual decisions thanks to the group members' efforts to maintain friendly relationships among themselves.

Overconfidence is the tendency to ________.

An advantage of the nominal group technique is that ________.

________ refers to the departure from rational theory that produces suboptimal decisions.

Ideal decision makers ________.

Naomi leads a team of software developers. Because of the sudden increase in the number of projects over the last few weeks, the team will need to work additional hours in order to meet the various deadlines. She asks her team members to write down their individual ideas on whether they should extend their daily work hours, or simply work on Saturday for the next two months. They are also encouraged to come up with other solutions that can help them solve the problem. Which of the following methods of decision making is Naomi most likely using?

Why is decision making such a difficult skill and role for all managers, but primarily difficult for new managers?

What factors must management consider when generating problem-solving alternatives?

Having too many alternatives may demotivate decision makers, which harms decision making. This is known as the ________.

While decisions arrived at through consensus are said to have an advantage of being better because they include the input of several individuals, which of the following is a disadvantage of consensus decisions?

Which of the following best describes the authority factors that limit the number of problem-solving alternatives available?

A donation of $1 million has been made to the hospital where Joe is CEO. In determining how to best allocate and utilize the funds, Joe will be making a ________ decision.

The broader the scope of a decision, ________.

________ occurs when an individual makes a decision that is not optimal, but is good enough.

A graphic decision-making tool used to evaluate decisions containing a series of steps is known as a ________.

A programmed decision is typically a one-shot structured decision that is usually less structured than a nonprogrammed decision.

The proportion of the total management system that a decision will affect is called the ________.

Decisions which are made through consensus usually take less time than those made by a single individual.

All the English teachers at Springfield High School jointly developed and agreed on the standards that students must achieve in order to graduate to the next grade. This is an example of ________.

Becky is leading her team in an open discussion on the possibilities of implementing flexible work hours for her department. One of the team members keeps interrupting with negative feedback on the suggested ideas. He is breaking the cardinal rule of ________.