Synopsis

In situations requiring careful judgment, every individual is influenced by their own biases to some extent. With Bazerman's new seventh edition, readers can quickly learn how to overcome those biases to make better managerial decisions. The book examines judgment in a variety of organizational contexts, and provides practical strategies for changing and improving decision-making processes so that they become part of one's permanent behavior.

Booknews

Provides training in decision making by creating awareness of the decision-making process and by offering strategies for improving these processes. For use in undergraduate economics, psychology, and organizational behavior courses. This fourth edition provides more contemporary examples of real-world decisions, a new chapter on motivational biases, and expanded material on decision-making from individual and multi-party perspectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Biography

Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition, Max is also formally affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, the Psychology Department, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard. He is the author or co-author of over 150 research articles and chapters, and the author of numerous other books. Professor Bazerman was named one of the top 30 authors, speakers, and teachers of management by Executive Excellence in each of their two most recent rankings.

Don Moore is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University¹s Tepper School of Business, and holder of the Carnegie Bosch Faculty Development chair.  Don is also formally affiliated with CMU's Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and he is the founding director of the Center for Behavioral Decision Research.  He received his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University.