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Why we fail to do whats right and what to do about it. Dec 23, 2012 in blind spots, leading business ethicists max bazerman and ann tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. This book is about the central role experiments play in the tech sector, drawing lessons and best practices from the experiences of such companies as stubhub, alibaba, and uber. Kop blind spots av max h bazerman, ann e tenbrunsel pa. Bazerman is jesse isidor straus professor of business administration at the harvard business school. Bazerman has 32 books on goodreads with 15034 ratings.
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Bazerman s most popular book is negotiation genius. Blind spots why we fail to do whats right and what to do about it book. A lesson from warren buffett about ethical blind spots. Bazerman is the jesse isidor straus professor of business. Our results suggest that when the two problems are considered together, a different judgment emerges. Updated examples throughout the book feature current business problems and events and incorporate new, relevant research. The following adaptations have also been published. Judgment in managerial decision making with don moore. Bazerman and tenbrunsel, i think, do offer a great deal of useful and intelligent advice to their readers regarding our ethical blind spotsparticularly when such blind spots are encouraged or reinforced by institutional structures. By judging without reason, this journalist could possibly use deliberate moral reasoning to justify his initial reaction, bazerman 561 examples like this where people are quick to judge compromises our decisionmaking process. Bazerman covers some of the ground from his new book blind spots see my.
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In blind spots, leading business ethicists max bazerman and ann tenbrunsel examine the ways we. Why we fail to do whats right and what to do about it, coauthored with ann tenbrunsel 2011. Judgment in managerial decision making, 8th edition. I read this for a judgment and decision making course. Put plainly, every business person, leader and politician should read this book carefully to safeguard their businesses and society. Blind spots goodreads meet your next favorite book. Explaining why traditional approaches to ethics dont work, the book considers how blind spots like ethical fading the removal of ethics from the decision making process have led to tragedies and scandals such as the challenger space shuttle disaster, steroid use in major league baseball, the crash in the financial markets, and the energy. Noting a human tendency to justify our own actions to ourselves with little thought for their consequences, business professors max bazerman and ann tenbrunsel explain how employees can give rise to dysfunctional organizations for fear of rocking the boat. Blind spots max h bazerman, ann e tenbrunsel haftad. Tenbrunsel and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Tenbrunsel, a professor of business ethics at the university of notre dame. Judgment in managerial decision making, 8th edition wiley. In this book the authors, both leading business ethicists examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically.
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