Exam 7: Decision Making and Creativity

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:

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Question 121

Decision makers tend to rely on their implicit favourite when:

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Question 122

Convergent thinking mainly improves what stage of the creative process?

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Question 123

Task significance and autonomy are important conditions for creativity in organizations.

(True/False)

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Question 124

Incubation is a unique activity in organizational settings for increasing creativity.Describe this stage of creativity and explain what employees need to do to improve the incubation process.

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Question 125

Escalation of commitment is more likely to occur when:

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Question 126

Intuition includes any emotional signals we experience regarding a situation.

(True/False)

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Question 127

Representativeness heuristics is a natural tendency to pay less attention to whether something resembles something else than on more precise statistics about its probability.

(True/False)

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Question 128

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

(True/False)

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Question 129

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

(True/False)

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Question 130

To choose the best solution,decision makers need clear organizational goals that do not conflict with each other.

(True/False)

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Question 131

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

(True/False)

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Question 132

Decision makers can discover blind spots in problem identification by discussing the situation with other people.

(True/False)

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Question 133

The optimum level of employee involvement depends on the situation.

(True/False)

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Question 134

Which of the following is a potential problem when evaluating and choosing alternatives in decision making?

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Question 135

Creativity occurs by redefining the problem,not just by finding a unique solution to the existing problem.

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Question 136

Incubation and verification are:

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Question 137

Post-decisional justification gives people an excessively optimistic evaluation of their decisions,until they receive very clear and undeniable information to the contrary.

(True/False)

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Question 138

Which of the following best describes how we can improve our problem identification skills?

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Question 139

The decision-making process is more effective when problems are defined in terms of their solutions.

(True/False)

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Decision makers tend to rely on their implicit favourite when:

Convergent thinking mainly improves what stage of the creative process?

Task significance and autonomy are important conditions for creativity in organizations.

Incubation is a unique activity in organizational settings for increasing creativity.Describe this stage of creativity and explain what employees need to do to improve the incubation process.

Escalation of commitment is more likely to occur when:

Intuition includes any emotional signals we experience regarding a situation.

Representativeness heuristics is a natural tendency to pay less attention to whether something resembles something else than on more precise statistics about its probability.

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

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

To choose the best solution,decision makers need clear organizational goals that do not conflict with each other.

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

Decision makers can discover blind spots in problem identification by discussing the situation with other people.

The optimum level of employee involvement depends on the situation.

Which of the following is a potential problem when evaluating and choosing alternatives in decision making?

Creativity occurs by redefining the problem,not just by finding a unique solution to the existing problem.

Incubation and verification are:

Post-decisional justification gives people an excessively optimistic evaluation of their decisions,until they receive very clear and undeniable information to the contrary.

Which of the following best describes how we can improve our problem identification skills?

The decision-making process is more effective when problems are defined in terms of their solutions.

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Individual Behaviour, Personality, and Values

Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations

Workplace Emotions, Attitudes, and Stress

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Communicating in Teams and Organizations

Power and Influence in the Workplace

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