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    Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning 1. Describe Sunderland’s management and work style. What are her sources of power? A. Sunderland had a lot of experience in managing large high profile accounts which contributed to her management style. It was these experiences that built her expertise. She is a professional through and through. Sunderland is investigative and is gifted with a strategic mind-set. She is viewed as a source of knowledge and client insight. Her insightful critique

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    Confirmation Bias

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    Confirmation Bias Amber Daniel 3/14/2012 PSY/285 Monica Mauri Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one’s perceptions and avoids information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs

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    Internal Selection

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    Chapter 10: Internal Selection Preliminary Issues The Logic of Prediction -indicators of internal applicants’ degree of success in past situations (previous job/current job in an org.) should be predictive of their likely success in new situations (internal vacancy via org’s transfer or promotion system) -Most valid selection measures: Biographical Data‚ Cognitive Ability Tests‚ Work Samples -Although logic of prediction & likely effectiveness of selection methods are similar for both

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    Media Bias

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    One problem that plagues us everyday without us even realizing it is media bias. We see it in the news. We see it on our favorite sitcoms. We read it everyday in the paper. Yet‚ we really don’t recognize it when we hear it or see it. Media bias is evident in every aspect of the media‚ yet the problem is that we don’t even recognize it when it is right in front of our faces. Are the impressions that we form about individuals a product of the media? Do we form certain opinions about particular types

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    Ignorance Is Bias

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    I would say the source did not necessarily change my thinking on the research question‚ but it did affect my by providing different reasons as to why Latinos are not as likely to get elected in to legislature. Juenke‚ Eric Gonzalez. "Ignorance Is Bias: The Effect Of Latino Losers On Models Of Latino Representation." American Journal Of Political Science 58.3 (2014): 593-603. Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Feb. 2016. This source in particular was a study done to examine why minorities get

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    Len Bias

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    That is why wanting to be a professional player for any sport is “unrealistic” for most people. You have to be a gifted player to make it to the pros. A first team All-American college basketball forward at the University of Maryland. That’s who Len Bias was. He was a humble player with extremely high expectations and a favorite of many because of his size‚ athleticism‚ and passion for the game of basketball. He had dreamt of becoming an NBA player ever since he was a little kid growing up in a road

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    Bias In The Odyssey

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    different perspectives telling different stories that are brought up by Homer’s Odyssey in The Penelopiad. The book illustrates just how different the same story can be told from different perspectives and the issues it may cause. The polarizing‚ bias and flawed

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    Hindsight Bias

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    Hindsight bias: Hindsight bias is when you know something right after it happens and not while it is happening. Some people call it the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. This is where you watch a sports game and when the game is over‚ think to yourself that you knew they would loose‚ when in fact you were on the edge of your seat waiting to see how the game was going to end and if your team would win or not. (Myers‚ 2010‚ p.16.) I have had several instances where hindsight bias has

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    Confirmation Bias

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    confirmation bias can easily influence our perceptions and holding certain beliefs can also generate their own confirmation; regardless of the statistics‚ facts‚ or proof. Our preconception of our society‚ world‚ or even any given situation will greatly influence how we will interpret those things and situations or by the beliefs that we hold. Since most people tend to side with information that confirms how they may perceive a situation‚ a good example could be gun control and the bias that may arise

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    Bias and Decision Making

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    but they can use their knowledge of appropriate decision-making processes to increase the rest. Decision making has been an important procedure in the management whatever in planning‚ organising‚ leading or controlling‚ whereas‚ biases affected managers’ process of decision making usually. This essay will focus on the areas of biases relevant to the decision making‚ the contents are comprised of the types of biases to decision making‚ the disadvantages of biases‚ possible merit of biases to decision

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