Management Decision Making Final Exam: August 2013 1) Research discussed in class shows that interviews are not nearly as predictive (e.g.‚ about future performance at your firm) as most managers believe. Nevertheless‚ almost all firms spend a great deal of time and money conducting interviews every year. a. With this result in mind‚ focus on one or two major biases that may influence the interviewing process in your firm‚ and propose a revised interviewing process that minimizes and
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Ethical Decision Making Ethics is a set of moral principles that set forth people’s actions when in conflict with having to examine and decide what is right or wrong‚ what is legal or illegal‚ and what is proper or improper to do. Every business action and decision we make during the course of our lives could indicate when a situation has a wrong or right implication. Most people tend to make business ethical decisions based on personal interest‚ economic status‚ professional values‚ and social
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MGT422: Decision-making for Leaders MODULE 1: CASE The Collapse of the Housing Bubble and the Mortgage Crisis 1.) From the viewpoint of expected utility theory‚ should this situation ever have developed in the first place? The simple answer is no it should not have happened. Using the expected utility theory gives you the chance to make the
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What is good decision making? A. It should be Ethical 1. Utilitarian criterion—decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences. The goal of utilitarianism is to provide the greatest good for the greatest number. This view tends to dominate business decision making. 2. Focus on rights—calls on individuals to make decisions consistent with fundamental liberties and privileges. • An emphasis on rights means respecting and protecting the basic rights of individuals‚ such
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Decision making is a cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice called a decision. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore‚ decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational‚ and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions. (McGlone‚ 2000) There are several steps in the decision-making process:
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Applying Decision Making Techniques to Identify Solutions How will the South Pacific Logistics and Transportation Company establish a greater and profitable presence on the Island of Kava? Considering all the physical‚ environmental and socio-economical issues previously discussed‚ how can a decision be made that will provide the best solution for both the corporation‚ its stakeholders and the community in which they operate? There are several tools and techniques available to guide decision
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Methods of Group Decision Making No two groups will ever function in the same way while involved in the process of decision making. Some are proactive groups while there are other groups‚ which need a driving force or a facilitator to facilitate the process. There are several methods of group decision-making. Here are some of the common methods employed in the process of decision-making: Authoritarian Style The authoritarian style is like a dictatorship‚ in which the decision ultimately rests
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“Rational decision-making is an impossible ideal in strategy formulation and implementation due to incomplete information and organisational politics.” Strategy is formulated and implemented by organisations as a means of gaining competitive advantage and achieving organisational success. Frequent fast‚ widely supported‚ and high quality strategic decisions are the cornerstone of effective strategy (Eisenhardt‚ 1999 in Clegg et. Al‚ 2012). In today’s world of borderless business‚ ever-evolving
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.Advantages of group decision-making Firstly‚ group decision making from experts in different areas is beneficial to solve complicate problems. For instance‚ in a small company‚ boss often makes suggestions by himself; the result of his behavior relies on the ability of the boss. So there are cases when he can’t make things right‚ which may be serious fault to the operation of a company. However‚ people with different backgrounds consider the problems more carefully and comprehensively‚ as a result
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Thinking and Decision Making Paper Kim Abrahamson‚ Tom Kish University of Phoenix - MGT 350 Karen V. Amabile October 8‚ 2007 Thinking and Decision Making Paper Introduction Thinking styles and decision making‚ as we can see in today’s world there are many different types of people and as such there many different ways to think and come to decisions. However‚ thinking styles can traditionally be categorized into four groups: persuasive‚ creative‚ scientific and logical. It is by using
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