Discussion: Improve your decision-making

Instructions In this course, you have learned about various aspects of managerial decision-making. For this final assignment, you will reflect on everything you have learned and discuss how you will use it to improve your decision-making in the future. To complete this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the best practices in rational decision-making and explains how you will use what you have learned in each of the following areas to improve your managerial decision-making.

Overcoming bias

Awareness of boundaries

Awareness of framing

Motivation in decision-making

Emotions in decision-making

Fairness and ethics

Investments

Negotiations

The six issues in negotiator cognition

Be as creative as you can with color and flow to make the presentation unique and powerful. Use bullet points where possible to keep it clear and concise. Pretend you are creating the presentation for an audience of managerial decision-making learners.

In your presentation, you must use at least two academic references, one of which may be your textbook. The sources must be cited and referenced in APA format. Your presentation should include an introduction slide and conclusion slide; it must be a minimum of 12 slides, but no more than 20 slides (not counting the title and reference slides).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.