Contemporary Management eleventh edition. Chapter 7, discussion question only 1-6 on page 206.

Management in Action Topics for Discussion and Action Discussion 5. What is organizational learning, and how can managers promote it? [LO7-4] 6. What is the difference between entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship? [LO7-5] Action 1. What are the main differences between programmed decision making and nonprogrammed decision making? [LO7-1] In what ways do the classical and administrative models of decision making help managers appreciate the complexities of real-world decision making? [LO7-1] Why do capable managers sometimes make bad decisions? What can individual managers do to improve their decision-making skills? [LO7-1,7-2] In what kinds of groups is groupthink most likely to be a problem? When is it least likely to be a problem? What steps can group members take to ward off groupthink? [LO7-3] 7. Ask a manager to recall the best and the worst decisions he or she ever made. Try to determine why these decisions were so good or so bad. [LO7-1,7-2, 7-3] Think about an organization in your local community or your university, or an organization that you are familiar with, that is doing poorly. Now think of questions managers in the organization should ask stakeholders to elicit creative ideas for turning around the organization's fortunes. [LO7-4]