Part One: Answer Questions (Must be roughly 200 words& APA Citing)
1. Describe the concept of analogical reasoning. Then, considering your last purchase decision, discuss how analogical reasoning could have helped you to improve your decision and increase your satisfaction with the product or service that you purchased.
2. Discuss the three-staged de-biasing process (unfreezing, change, and refreezing) and explain the mechanisms that make each of them hard to implement. In your discussion, include how you believe such a process can help you, personally, to improve your decision-making.
3. Bazerman and Moore suggest that we should understand the biases of others. Discuss this concept in terms of why it is important for us to understand other peoples’ biases. In your discussion, focus on how you might be able to improve your decision-making in a group setting.
4. Discuss some of the reasons why managers continue to use unstructured employment interviews despite the abundant evidence that they are not useful for predicting future job performance.
Textbook:
Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgment in managerial decision making (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Part two: Unit VIII Final Project
Create a six- to eight-page corporate policy to foster creative thinking in a real-world organization.
The policy must include the following components:
• Clearly identify the organization and target audience the plan is written for.
• Create sections based on the work activities that contribute to the overall corporate culture. The sections should be tailored to your specific organization and your target audience.
• Include specific procedures that will facilitative a creative work environment. Describe detailed procedures using a format that is easy to follow.
• Add any templates or worksheets that might be helpful for the leaders to use when implementing the policy.
• Use text enhancements and visuals for emphasis and for clarity. In addition to basic enhancements, such as bold, underline, italics, caps, font/font size, and color-coding, you can include graphs, illustrations, or other visual elements.
• Use at least one outside resource in your policy. You must relate your discussion of the policy to the outside source(s) use and cite them according to APA format.
