Cognitive Biases and Organizational Correctives: Do Both Disease and Cure Depend on the Politics of the Beholder?

By Philip Tetlock. 2000

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Cross-Understanding: Implications for Group Cognition and Performance (2010, background): “That is, beliefs may be incorrect or may be based on out-of-date or otherwise incorrect information and can be strongly biased by personal values (Tetlock, 2000), sensitivity to an issue may be a function of ignorance as well as of knowledge (e.”
Politics as a Moderator of the Accountability—Job Satisfaction Relationship: Evidence Across Three Studies (2009, background): “In addition to their positive effects on the reliable functioning of organizational systems, these clear expectations regarding task responsibilities, acceptable behaviors, and evaluating audiences presumably have positive effects on employee psychological states (Green, Visser, & Tetlock, 2000).”
The Origin of Failure: A Multidisciplinary Appraisal of the Hubris Hypothesis and Proposed Research Agenda (2014, background): “However, hubristic CEOs tend to exclude other individuals from strategy decisions (Tetlock, 2000); the centralization of strategic decisions in a single individual ignores the potential contribution of others, especially when the CEO lacks the cognitive ability and technical skills to make specific ”
Representational gaps, information processing, and conflict in functionally diverse teams (2007, background): “People often have different fundamental beliefs because they have different personalities (e.g., cognitive style; see Tetlock, 2000) and life experiences.”
Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers? (2018, positive): “This viewpoint pushes conservatives to place importance on stability, respect for authority, and tradition (Tetlock, 2000; Jost et al., 2003).”
Red, blue, and purple firms: Organizational political ideology and corporate social responsibility (2017, background): “In contrast, conservative ideology prescribes individualism, ownership rights, and efficiency as the paramount decision-making criterion (Tetlock, 2000).”