Groupthink Occurs When ________

question 28

Multiple Choice

Groupthink occurs when ________.

• A) managers favor employees who don't compete with their own particular strengths.
• B) employees judge a decision by its eventual outcome, rather than on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.
• C) peer pressures cause individual team members to withhold contrary or unpopular opinions.
• D) a team places too much importance on one aspect of an event, which causes errors in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.
• E) employees rely too heavily, or "anchor," on one trait or piece of information when making decisions about team members.

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Definitions:

Principles

Foundational rules or laws that guide actions, behavior, or thought processes in various disciplines or aspects of life.

Intuitions

The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.

Morning Morality Effect

This term describes the phenomenon where people's moral awareness and self-control are higher in the morning, and decline over the course of the day.

Virtuous Best

Suggests the highest standard of morality and ethical behavior.