Decision-Making Biases
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Module 4: Discussion Forum
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We learn in this module about some of the most common decision-making biases that get in the way when we try to optimize the outcomes of our decisions. Think of a time when you were a victim of one or more biases. What was the outcome? How might you bring about a different outcome if a similar experience occurred today? Support your comments by discussing one or more examples from the contemporary environment that parallel your experience. Cite at least one example from popular media (newspaper, radio, television, internet, or podcast, for example).
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Business Management and Administration Library Guide
A Library Guide is available via the following link to serve as a great resource in this course for you. The Library Guide provides a variety of pre-selected databases within the library that are designed to support this specific course. Be sure to use this link throughout the course to support your assignment and discussion board research efforts: Management Library Guide (Links to an external site.).
Required
- Chapters 4 & 5 in Fundamentals of Management
Recommended
- Altendorfer, K., Felberbauer, T., & Jodlbauer, H. (2016). Effects of forecast errors on optimal utilisation in aggregate production planning with stochastic customer demand. International Journal of Production Research, 1-18.
- Duska, R. (2017). Unethical behavioral finance: Why good people do bad things. Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 71(1), 25-28.
- Jones, & Sharpe. (2017). Cognitive bias modification: A review of meta-analyses. Journal of Affective Disorders, 223, 175-183.
Answer preview
is a common factor for certain perceptions that close our mind easily to affect the quality of our decision making and reasoning. Such biasness can be painted by our life experience or from the general presentation of the life we are living in which at times blinds as not to employ reasoning. Such kind of biasness happened to me in the last year of my senior high school year when we were to elect the school student leadership. Competition for the topmost position was between a gentleman and a lady. For my case, I was very much obsessed with the growing concern by the general society to empower women, and this ended up influencing my choice in this position (Altendorfer et al., 2016). However, the lady who was my favorite failed terribly as she lacked necessary leadership skills.
If a similar situation occurs to me right now, I will look at the leadership qualities that the personalities possess and use it to guide my decision…
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