Limited information searches to identify problems and alternative solutions.
What is satisficing?
100
A system of interrelated beliefs, preferences, expectations, and values that predetermine responses to and interpretations of situations
What is a cognitive structure?
100
In this game, players move in turn, and one player can select a strategy to pursue after its rival's choice of strategy.
What is sequential move game?
100
This term is often used in Japanese companies to capture the process of converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge
What is metaphor?
200
Decision makers have all the information they need
What is an assumption of the rational model?
200
Describes how decision making takes place in environments of high uncertainty
What is the unstructured model?
200
Leads managers to form judgments based on small and unrepresentative samples
What is representativeness?
200
The conformity that emerges when like-minded people reinforce one another's tendencies to interpret events and information in similar ways.
What is group-think?
200
Combining pieces of explicit knowledge to create new knowledge
What is explicit to explicit learning?
300
Compare likely consequences of each alternative and decide which course of action offers the best solutions.
What is the third stage of the rational model?
300
They correct or avoid mistakes through a succession of incremental changes.
What is the incrementalist model?
300
State of discomfort or anxiety experienced when there is and inconsistency between one's beliefs and actions.
What is cognitive dissonance?
300
A person who is responsible for critiquing ongoing organizational learning.
What is the devil's advocate?
300
This learning step is needed to be able to share your tacit knowledge with other individuals.
What is tacit to explicit learning?
400
Decision makers can make the best decisions
What is an assumption of the rational model?
400
A limited capacity to process information
What is bounded rationality?
400
Causes managers to overestimate the extent to which the outcomes of an action are under their personal control
What is illusion of control?
400
In this game the players act at the same time, in ignorance of their rival's current actions.
What is a simultaneous move game?
400
This kind of learning is needed for individuals to internalize the explicit knowledge they have been given
What is explicit to tacit learning?
500
The solution chosen is a result of compromise , bargaining, and accommodation between coalitions.
What are organizational coalitions?
500
Decision makers are as likely to start decision making from the solution side as the problem side
What is the garbage-can model?
500
Leads managers to interpret events in such a way that their actions appear in the most favorable light.
What are ego-defensiveness?
500
An informal organization of managers that is set up parallel to the formal organization structure to ''shadow'' the decision making and actions of managers in the formal organization.
What is collateral organizational structure?
500
Being ''socialized'' into a craft through observation, imitation, and practice.