This document discusses various topics related to decision making, including different types of decisions, individual and group decision making processes, and factors that influence decision making. It covers programmed versus non-programmed decisions, top-down versus empowered decisions, rational versus intuitive decision making models, and group decision techniques like brainstorming, nominal group technique, and Delphi method. It also outlines factors like decision making styles, individual differences, groupthink, biases, and traps that can influence the decision making process.
13. Points to note
Awareness of traps in our thinking
Keep questioning assumptions
Seek various perspectives/frames
Understand decision styles of self, others
Encourage dissent
Cultivate culture of openness, failure acceptance
Awareness of yes-(wo)men, groupthink
Use nominal techniques to allow private votes
14. QUIZ 3 [take home]
Individually work and
Map which traps and biases from the reading would
significantly affect which stages of the decision making
process. Substantiate with examples [10 marks]
Submit a print copy in tomorrows class
16. Mental accounting
Imagine that you have decided to see a movie and
have paid the admission price of $10 per ticket. As
you enter the theater, you discover that you have
lost the ticket. The seat was not marked, and the
ticket cannot be recovered. Would you pay $10 for
another ticket?
46% ready to buy
17. Imagine that you have decided to see a movie
where admissionis $10, but you have not yet
bought the ticket. As you walk to the theater, you
discover that you have lost a $10 bill. Would you
still pay $10 for a ticket to the movie?
88% ready to buy