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31) SCENARIO 9-1 Your organization is considering the use of teams for decision making. You have read and studied the topic extensively. Now you are trying to inform your manager about the advantages and disadvantages of group decision-making. Referring to SCENARIO 9-1, you should expect to find that an advantage is thata. group decision-making will be faster. b. group discussions will be shared equally. c. there will be increased acceptance of the decision. d. group decision-making will not be viewed as legitimate. e. group decision-making will avoid risks. 32) SCENARIO 9-1 Your organization is considering the use of teams for decision making. You have read and studied the topic extensively. Now you are trying to inform your manager about the advantages and disadvantages of group decision-making. Referring to SCENARIO 9-1, you should expect a weakness of group decision-making to a. be less complete knowledge and information. b. be that group decisions are more time-consuming than individual decisions. c. be less acceptance of decisions because employees did not personally make the choice. d. result in decisions of lower quality because of shared responsibility. e. be less diverse in views and opinions. 33) SCENARIO 9-1 Your organization is considering the use of teams for decision making. You have read and studied the topic extensively. Now you are trying to inform your manager about the advantages and disadvantages of group decision-making. Referring to SCENARIO 9-1, you have observed that the group tends to arrive at consensus very quickly and you know that the group is very cohesive. You conclude that they may be experiencing a. partiality in decision making. b. groupshift. c. the nominal group technique. d. groupthink. e. the anchoring bias. 34) Emery’s team must make a decision quickly in the next few days about which marketing strategy to use in order to launch a new product. He has noticed that when the team has been together making decisions in the past, the team members favour more risky approaches than they do as individuals. Emery thinks that ________ is taking place when the team makes decisions. a. intuition b. groupshift c. brainstorming d. groupthink e. availability bias 35) Groupshift most often means decisions a. are made by groups rather than individuals. b. are more risky. c. are made more quickly. d. prove less effective. e. are more conservative. 36) Irena is faced with a problem whose solution requires a high degree of creativity. What is the best approach to solving this problem? a. Solve it herself. b. Let her most trusted employee solve it. c. Ask a group of employees to solve it. d. Outsource the problem to a consultant. e. Ask her boss what to do. 37) Andre is very ambitious about his future in the company. He currently has a fairly high level of power as a director of a division. Recently there is a noticeable tendency for his decision making to be more a. intuitive. b. risk averse. c. participative. d. overconfident. e. random. 38) When group members exaggerate the initial positions that they held concerning an issue, the group has experienced a. an anchoring bias. b. groupthink. c. group interaction. d. groupshift. e. group rationalization. 39) You are a supervisor at the nearby plant. You have been trying to explain to your employees some of the benefits of group decisions. You want the group to try ______________ to generate more ideas and alternatives for the issue at hand. a. the nominal group technique b. brainstorming c. intuition d. groupthink e. creativity 40) You are a supervisor at the nearby manufacturing plant. You have been trying to explain to your employees some of the ways that group decisions can be made. You tell them that when a group is developing alternative courses of action to solve a problem, some decision-making techniques generate more alternatives than others. The decision-making technique that will likely generate the most alternatives is a. face-to-face interacting groups. b. brainstorming. c. the Delphi technique. d. the nominal group technique. e. electronic meetings.