Part One: Answer question, roughly 100-150 words, all citing must be APA style

Discuss your feelings about the multiple-selves theory. Do you feel the pull between what you want and what should be done? How have you reconciled these differences in the past?

Part Two: Answer questions, roughly 200 words, all citing must be APA style

1. The news has been full of stories lately about the stock market problems, sub-prime mortgages, and Ponzi schemes. All of these required people to make decisions. Research one of the stories and discuss how motivation influenced people to make such terrible decisions. Had exponential discounting played a part in the decision(s) that you had researched. If so, how?

2. Recently, a number of major banks have rejected federal bailout money citing that they did not like the rules that the government placed on them if they took the cash infusion. Research these decisions and report your findings. Discuss how self-serving reasoning could play a part in these decisions?

3. Report on a decision that you were a part of or had witnessed in your organization where personal motivation and/or emotions on the part of decision maker(s) may have caused a sub-optimal decision to be made.

4. Lately, the stock market has experienced unprecedented volatility - wild ups and downs. Discuss how stock trading has created a lot of this volatility and the decisions for stock traders to buy and sell wildly in terms of hyperbolic discounting.

Textbook:

Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2009). Judgment in managerial decision making (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Part One: Answer question, roughly 100-150 words, all citing must be APA style

Conduct a search of news reports that include business leaders exhibiting creative thinking.

Search for a range of reports to get an overview of the types of innovative decisions business leaders have made in recent years.

Then select one example to develop your response, addressing the following points.

Explain the innovative strategy. What makes the decision/behavior creative rather than traditional/status quo?

Describe the issue/problem addressed in the decision/behavior.

How did the innovative idea impact the overall outcome of the issue/problem?

Support your response with specific examples from the news report, and illustrate the specific course concepts you relied on to draw your conclusions.

Post a link to the news report

Part Two: Unit IV Project

Campaign Speech

Read the following scenario, which is also Application 8.4 on page 146 of the course textbook.

"Alcohol and drug abuse are associated with crime on the streets, health problems, the breakdown of the family, and poor job performance. Identify and solve the problem..."

Create a campaign speech that employs creative, innovative strategies to both identify and solve the problem.

The following components should be included:

• Your response should be a minimum of 3 pages.

• Write the speech for a specific target audience and with a clear goal and purpose that is evident from the content.

• Present a clear opinion and position on the issue presented in Application 8.4.

• Use logical and sound evidence to support your viewpoints. Your evidence must come from at least on outside source and follow APA guidelines.

Textbook:

Ruggiero, V. R. (2015). The art of thinking: A guide to critical and creative thought (11th ed.). New York, NY: Longman.