Managerial Decision Making Kristen Betts March 27‚ 2011 There are several biases that affect the judgment of managers‚ however‚ here are just a few that are relatively common; availability heuristic‚ representativeness heuristic‚ the affect heuristic and the positive hypothesis testing. It is truly intriguing to understand how each of them affects reasoning and judgment. The Availability heuristic is when individuals look for frequency of information‚ likely causes or even probability
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Ethics is the principles one uses to make an outright decision. It also refers to the standards of how humans react in different conditions in which they find themselves as many things such as parents‚ professionals‚ friends and so on. After reading the two articles ¨Thinking Ethically¨ which reviews theoretical approaches to ethical decision making‚ ¨A Framework for Ethical Decision Making¨ which describes a model of ethical decision making and ¨The Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier¨ which talk
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Problem 1 – Make or Buy Decision The Step Son Company manufactures cellular modems. It manufactures its own cellular modem circuit boards (CMCB)‚ an important part of the cellular modem. It reports the following cost information about the costs of making CMCBs in 2014 and the expected costs in 2015: Current Costs in 2014 Expected Costs in 2015 Variables Manufacturing Costs DM Per Unit $ 180 $ 170 DML per Unit $ 50 $ 45
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Values and Ethical Decision Making Values and Ethical Decision Making The company that I chose to compare to my Ethics Awareness Inventory Scoring Summary is Pfizer. Pfizer is a multination pharmaceutical company; they develop and produce medicines and vaccines for a wide range of conditions. Pfizer is a company had an annual income of 67 Billion dollars last year (P.‚ 2012). Some of the popular products that Pfizer makes are Advil‚ Celebrex‚ Viagra and Lipitor. The reason I chose Pfizer
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ETHICAL DECISION MAKING BY INDIVIDUALS IN ORGANIZATIONS: AN ISSUE-CONTINGENT MODEL THOMAS M. JONES University of Washington The Academy of Management Review‚ Vol. 16‚ No. 2. (Apr.‚ 1991)‚ pp. 366-395. Abstract Existing theoretical models of individual ethical decision making in organizations place little or no emphasis on characteristics of the ethical issue itself. This article (a) proposes an issue-contingent model containing a new set of variables called moral intensity: (b) using
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5.6 Decision Making --Work File *Read the course resources regarding decision making. Complete the following requirements. 1. List three life decisions that you made that have changed your life in some way. Choose one and write 2 paragraphs about it. (Total 10 points) a. Moving with my mother. b. Not having a job. c. Being the way I am. ( sensitive ) 2. Write 2 paragraphs about the decision you made. (Total of 10 sentences. 10 Points) Moving with my mother changed my life because I found
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What is a scientific decision making process? Scientific decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker. Scientific decision making involves a cognitive process where each step follows in a logical order from the one before. Making a scientific decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered‚ and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose
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Ethical Decision Making George T. Jackson‚ University of Phoenix Psych 545 Survey of Professional Psychology Dr. Christi Moore‚ Facilitator Ethical Decision Making Paper In this paper I will examine the relationship of a school psychologist and the relationship of his client and how boundaries were crossed when the school psychologist entered a sexual relationship with
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Management Ethics Review 2 Part 1 The Hidden Traps in Decision Making The higher the stakes of your decision‚ the higher the risk of getting caught in a thinking trap. When these traps work in concert‚ they can amplify one another. In this article‚ the author introduced 5 kinds of psychological traps. First and foremost‚ the anchoring trap means giving disproportionate weight to the first information received‚ which needs us to view a problem from different perspectives. The second one is
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be reviewed as under performing and given a lower evaluation. Another common problem could be pre decisional dissonance. Maybe your manager does not feel that you are able to perform the job well enough because of your sex (Plous‚ pg. 26). For example‚ I work in a call center now taking calls mostly from female callers. I have take calls saying that they did not like the way the previous caller spoke to them because he was a man and did not feel sympathetic toward them. Although the male answered
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