Exam 2

List the big 5 personality types

Agreeableness openness to experience extroversion conscientiousness emotional stability

________________ is a group technique for generating creative ideas in a freewheeling session in which ideas are proposed without being evaluated or criticized.

Brainstorming

The ________________ method of combining the information and insights of a group of people without suffering the adverse effects of face-to-face interaction.

Delphi technique

___________ is the art of logically examining issues by discussing a principle (thesis) and then considering its opposite (antithesis).

Dialectical inquiry

Groups tend to make decisions much more quickly than individuals.

FALSE

Which of the following is NOT a basic rule of brainstorming?

Ideas are carefully evaluated as they are brought forward

_________________ creates decisions that not optimal solution for everyone simultaneously.

Suboptimizing

Many complex business decisions are reduced to programmed decisions by the use of mathematical formulas, statistics, and operations research.

TRUE

Many people have firmly entrenched attitudes that labor unions are either good or bad, without realizing that in some situations, for specific problems, unions can be either good or bad. This is an example of dichotomized thinking.

TRUE

The nominal group technique incorporates some of the features of brainstorming and the Delphi technique.

TRUE

While brainstorming is a popular method for generating new ideas, research suggests that other methods are superior.

TRUE