Exam 7: Decision Making and Creativity

Decision makers have a need to reduce uncertainty,so they tend to focus on solutions before fully understanding the problem.

People with a high need to 'save face' are more likely to:

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

Escalation of commitment may be corrected by ensuring that those involved in choosing decision alternatives are also responsible for evaluating the implemented solution.

Insight and verification are:

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

Creative people have a high degree of non-conformity and have less concern about social approval.

Whether or not the emotions we experience in a situation represent intuition depends largely on our level of experience in that situation.

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

Which of the following is NOT a consequence of post-decisional justification?

Two contingencies of employee involvement are decision commitment and risk of conflict.

The tendency to define problems in terms of a preferred solution occurs because:

The highest level of employee involvement occurs when employees are asked to make recommendations to managers,who then decide whether to implement them.

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

Employees tend to be more creative when they:

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

Jamaal doesn't particularly like to abide by meaningless rules,is not bothered by ambiguous situations,is willing to take a chance by making mistakes and is less concerned about social approval than most other employees.Jamaal probably has:

Systematically evaluating alternatives through careful measurement and calculation tends to minimize:

Intuition is based on well-grounded mental models.

If employee goals and norms conflict with the organization's goals,then: