DECISION-MAKING OF JURIES Characteristics of the Defendant In an ideal world‚ a jury would be made up of unbiased and unprejudiced people‚ intelligent enough to comprehend the evidence and with the necessary verbal and social skills to contribute to discussion. In the real world however‚ research has shown that jury verdicts are influenced by irrelevant aspects of the defendant such as their physical attractiveness‚ gender‚ race and even their accent. Physical attractiveness: It does
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One of the decision making biases that managers may exhibit is overconfidence which is holding unrealistically positive views of one’s self and one’s performance. Overconfidence manifests itself either as excessive optimism about future firm performance or as an underestimate of the variance underlying future performance. Overconfidence tends to be a negative personality of an individual who has the tendency to overestimate the possibilities of his success. Overconfidence manager makes probability
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this information. When faced with situations like these‚ it sometimes feels like there are no “right” answers. What are your reactions to the three ethical dilemmas? What other information would be helpful to know about these situations to make a decision? CHAPTER FOCUS Virtue or Character Ethics Principle-Based Ethics: Developing Moral Rules Utilitarian Theories: Doing the Most Good for the Most People Deontological Theories: Balancing Rights and Obligations Justice in Health Care Values
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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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Consumer decision-making is a central part of consumer behavior‚ but the ways people evaluate and choose products (and the amount of thought they put into these choices) vary widely depending upon such dimensions as the degree of novelty or risk related to the decision. • A decision is actually composed of a series of stages that results in the selection of one product over competing options. • Our access to online sources is changing the way we decide what to buy. • Decision making is not
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TEAM DECISION MAKING: A KEY FACTOR IN KNOWLEDGE WORK TEAM EFFECTIVENESS Cheryl L. Harris Work teams as a method for doing business in organizations is becoming prevalent throughout the 1990’s. One of the applications of teams is the area of knowledge work‚ where the actual product is knowledge‚ in terms of designs‚ decisions‚ or information. Using work teams in knowledge work is difficult because the goals are often fuzzy and output is difficult to measure. Yet‚ using a team in this setting is
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category People judge the probability of a hypothesis by considering how much the hypothesis resembles (is representative for) available data Prospect theory (k&T‚ 1979) The theory describes the decision processes in two stages: editing and evaluation. During editing‚ outcomes of the decision are ordered following certain heuristic. In particular‚ people decide which outcomes they see as identical‚ set a reference point and then consider lesser outcomes as losses and greater ones as gains
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‘Given the potential problems associated with group decision making‚ organisations should rely on individual decision making whenever possible’. How far do you agree/disagree with this statement? From the days when working conditions were under the strict rules of Taylorism‚ workers these days are required to be equipped with various soft skills and not to forget‚ the important value of teamwork. Organisations present-day depend heavily on teamwork. Questions such as “what strengths can you bring
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support Gwendolen’s free will to study as she pleases and to study whichever subject(s) she desires. Gwendolen actually hates learning the German language‚ and her mother’s strong hand is the only reason why she does it. If she could make her own decisions‚ which she is capable of doing‚ she would never again open another German novel. We as readers can deduce that Lady Bracknell finds value only in intellectual women‚ offering no credit and paying no mind to the variety of paths from which one can
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direction 4) ________ is the degree to which decision making takes place at upper levels of the organization. 4) _______ A) Decentralization B) Formalization C) Functionalization D) Centralization 5) A company is planning to revise its organizational structure and one of the managers‚ Anderson Cooper‚ suggests increasing employee empowerment by giving them more decision-making authority. Which of the following‚ if true‚ would support
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