Exam 7: Decision Making and Creativity

WesTech Components wants to hire several people for jobs requiring a high degree of creativity.Identify three individual characteristics that WesTech should consider when selecting job applicants who have a high potential for creativity.

Scenario planning is a structured process that helps decision makers explore potential problems and choose the best solutions under different future conditions.

Which of the following is NOT a way to identify problems and opportunities more effectively?

The higher the level of employee involvement,the more influence people have over the decision process.

Which of the following is NOT explicitly identified as a contingency of employee involvement?

Clustering illusion causes us to see patterns from a small sample of events,when in fact those events are random.

The ideas that appear during the insight stage of creativity are quickly forgotten unless documented.

Which of these statements about information processing in decision making is FALSE?

The creative potential of a person tends to increase with his or her:

Intuition allows us to draw on our tacit knowledge to guide our decision preferences.

Employees are more likely to be committed to implementing a solution when they are involved in making the decision.

When should decision makers bypass the search for alternative solutions and development of new solutions?

One reason why the rational choice model doesn't fit reality is that it focuses on logical thinking and completely ignores:

Employee involvement mainly refers to controlling resources for one's own job.

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

Escalation of commitment occurs when employees increase their support for a decision because most of their colleagues also support that decision.

After Crispy Foods Ltd.had poured millions of dollars into the development of a new machine-made potato chip,the Board of Directors of the food-processing firm fired the CEO who had proposed and championed the product's development.The new CEO's first task is to find out why this monumental waste of money had occurred and how it can be prevented in the future.Describe two possible ways that the new CEO at Crispy Foods Ltd.can prevent or minimize this escalation of commitment in the future.Your answer must refer to this specific incident.

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

Incubation and verification are:

Describe the four stages of the creative process.