Week 2

Managerial Week 2

Part One: Answer question, roughly 100-150 words, all citing must be APA style

Discuss your feelings about bounded awareness and its various components. How has bounded awareness prevented you from making a good decision in your life or business?

Part Two: Answer questions, roughly 200 words, all citing must be APA style

1. Explain how the concept of bounded awareness can affect decision making.

2. Discuss the following statement. “It is important that organizational managers understand that bounded awareness can and will occur in decision making.”

3. Describe the concepts of groupthink and focalism and the similarities and differences that exist between the two.

4. Think about an organization for which you currently work or one that you previously worked for. Do you believe that groupthink affects or has ever affected the organization’s decision-making process? Why or why not?

Textbook:

Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgment in managerial decision making (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.