Values, Beliefs and Ethics
Decision Aids
Groups and Creativity
The Road TO...
I'm a Wild WildCat
100
A manager of a diesel company asks an employee to stay late and finish a job. The manager offers the employee overtime pay. The employee’s daughter has a soccer game he promised to attend and the extra money does not take priority. At this point, the value systems of the employee and manager are
What is misaligned
100
When you can quantify costs associated with an action, quantify benefits assocated with an action and define everything in equal units, you can perform a:
What is Cost Benefit Analysis
100
When every group member silently writes their own ideas on paper and then the ideas are shared among the group before being discussed, the group is doing:
What is nominal group technique
100
What personal events led Jerry Harvey's to observe group behaviors he would later call "The Abilene Paradox"?
What is The film begins with a true story about author Jerry Harvey’s own family on a hot Texas afternoon in the late 1950’s, while they were engaged in a game of dominos. Somehow, they wound up in the car on a hot and dusty trip to the cafeteria in Abilene. It was the first time that Dr. Harvey observed the group behaviors that he would later call the Abilene Paradox
100
What year will be Penn College's centennial?
What is 2014 (the college opened in 1914)
200
Values-based decision making is thought to be superior to belief based decision making because
What is 1. it is more forward thinking, 2. everyone focuses on a common value and 3. there is more freedom with the process
200
What is a disadvantage of time series analysis
What is, it is only as accurate as the data it is based on
200
Daily Double When there is a general feeling of support before the decision is made through listening to others and modifying opinions (no voting, compromising or giving in), the group has achieved
What decision by concensus
200
When groups take action that contradicts what the members of the group silently want or need to do, they are traveling into
What is The Abilene Paradox
200
Approximately how many students are enrolled at Penn College
What is 6,000
300
In the framework for ethical decision making, what are the 4 typical steps one must consider
What are moral awareness, moral judgment, moral intention, moral action
300
Anonymity on the part of the expert, controlled expert feedback and can use a large group of people scattered all over various places with no time constraints describe the neccessary elements for what technique?
What is Delphi
300
Ideas should never be critized when a group is:
What is brainstorming
300
What is one symptom of a trip down Abilene?
What is silent agreement, lack of logic, lack of conflict
300
Who is the president of Penn College and does she wear glasses or contacts?
What is Davie Jane Gilmour and she has a silver and red pair of glasses.
400
Managerial values are a composite of completing tasks required of us within the framework of our personal guidelines. This encompasses which two types of values
What are competence and personal values
400
What is defined as “a systematic approach to analyzing statistical data from previous events over evenly spaced periods of time”?
What is time series analysis
400
When there is a large group, a type II decision and the group needs to be open to new ideas with everyone being heard, what
What is brainstorming
400
The trip to Abilene is easy to take if people exagerrate outcomes. What 3 things can you do to ensure you speak up in a situation instead of becoming confused with fear of a potential failure of bad outcome as a result of your speaking up?
What is write down the decision, write all the possible outcomes and the best and worst thing that could happen if you speak up. Evaluate it honestly and choose the choice that makes you feel best.
400
What was the name of Penn College before 1989 when it became Penn College?
What is WACC - Williamsport Area Community College
500
DAILY DOUBLE: In terms of decision making, ethics can be found in which parts of the process
What is every step of the process
500
“a type of tree-diagram used in determining the optimum course of action, in situations having several possible alternatives with uncertain outcomes
What is decision tree
500
Name three famous groups
What is Scooby Doo and the gang, Three Stoogies, The Ninja Turtles
500
Double Jeopardy How far of a drive was it to Abilene?
What is 53 Miles
500
Are there more bachelor degree or associate degree students enrolled at Penn College
What is associate (48.62% of enrollment, versus 46.39% getting a bachelor degree)
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