Initial proposal

You bring your initial proposal work (topic, purpose statement, research questions, and hypothesis) to a stakeholder committee, which is comprised of your manager and other senior-level people. They react and you take notes.

NOTES
Juicy Red Tomato Company
Steering Committee Meeting notes
• Discussed research proposal
• HR manager comments - agreed with everything, seemed a little upset
that her suggestions were not followed previously
• Agri director disagrees that wages are not adequate - "after all we're
using migrant workers" Also argued that JRT provides housing for
workers, so that should count as compensation.
• IT manager commented he's been fighting for budget to improve
communications but has been denied funding
• President believes that field personnel will not use "hi tech toys" like
cellphones and pdas
• CFO commented that if JRT starts paying production people more, profit
margin will be destroyed

What, if any, biases do you detect in the steering committee members' remarks?
At this point, are they using reflective or expedient decision-making methods? What do you need to do to address their concerns?

Think about your recent business decision you discussed. Your supervisor had asked that you expand on your self-evaluation by identifying at least two judgment issues that you had to address. Write a memo to your supervisor describing these issues. Explain how you addressed them and the degree to which your decision was based on expedience and/or reflection. Potential issues include: bias, or ethical issues related to the availability heuristic, bias related to the representative heuristic, bias related to anchoring and adjustment, avoiding uncertainty, framing effects, positive illusions, egocentrism, and regret avoidance.