Exam 14: Decision Making

What are the three basic rules of brainstorming?

Which of the following the following is a method to reduce dissonance?

To a large extent,a decision maker's willingness to make ethical or unethical decisions will be influenced by his or her values.

Decisions are typically made without the benefit of perfect information and unlimited time to search for and evaluate alternative solutions.

The Delphi technique has the advantage of having several _______________ while removing the biasing effects that might occur during face-to-face interaction.

As decision implementation typically involves people,the test of the soundness of a decision is the behavior of the people involved relative to the decision.

As it pertains to choosing a solution,the alternative-outcome relationship is based on all of the following conditions except:

Escalation of commitment is typically caused by a need to turn a poor decision into a winning decision.

An intuitive decision maker uses _______________ to process information,data,and the environment or to address a problem or solution.

_______________ occurs when a team member has to wait for his/her turn to provide an idea that contributes to a brainstorming session.

_______________ thinking is a process of generating novel ways to solve problems faced by an individual or group.

___________ problems present themselves and must be attended to by the managers.

The consequences of decisions that deal with _______________ leave leaders particularly susceptible to cognitive dissonance.

How can an organization focus management attention away from crises and routine problems and toward longer-range issues?

Problems can be expected to arise in organizations where top management expends too much time and effort on nonprogrammed decisions.

Team- or group-based decision-making is especially good for nonprogrammed problems.

Decision makers who _______________ are likely to be candidates for escalation of decision making.

_______________ describes the seriousness of a problem's effects.

Many decisions have an ethical dimension that requires all of the following except:

In solution selection,group interaction and the achievement of consensus usually results in the acceptance of more _______________ than would be accepted by an individual decision maker.