Part 1
Part One: Answer question, roughly 100-150 words, all citing must be APA style
Discuss your feelings about bounded awareness and its various components. How has bounded awareness prevented you from making a good decision in your life or business?
Part Two: Answer questions, roughly 200 words, all citing must be APA style
1. Explain how the concept of bounded awareness can affect decision making.
2. Discuss the following statement. "It is important that organizational managers understand that bounded awareness can and will occur in decision making."
3. Describe the concepts of groupthink and focalism and the similarities and differences that exist between the two.
4. Think about an organization for which you currently work or one that you previously worked for. Do you believe that groupthink affects or has ever affected the organization's decision-making process? Why or why not?
Textbook:
Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgment in managerial decision making (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Part 2
Part One: Answer question, roughly 100-150 words, all citing must be APA style
Bring forward a company that you know of that has a product or you use their product that is on the cutting edge of technology, creative thinking, and sustainability.
Explain how innovative business leaders have used the concepts of creativity to encourage employees to adopt innovative work behaviors to produce the product or service you noted above
Part Two: Unit II Project
Writing a Blog
Write a blog post for a target audience of business executives that explains how innovative business leaders can use the concepts from Chapters 2 and 4 of your textbook to encourage employees to adopt innovative work behaviors.
Include the following components:
• Use specific examples to illustrate your points.
• Be sure to present advice that is most relevant to the specific target audience.
• Maximize the benefits available in the blog format.
• Your response should be at least 2 pages in length.
• Use a minimum of 3 outside sources, one of which may be your textbook.
For this assignment, you will not be creating a blog on a web page, but writing a blog post in a Word document, following the above criteria.
Textbook:
Ruggiero, V. R. (2015). The art of thinking: A guide to critical and creative thought (11th ed.). New York, NY: Longman.