Online MBA Residential: Decision Making

UC Davis Graduate School of Management welcomes our MBA@UCDavis Online MBA program students to an in-person residential in San Diego, CA.

Instructor: Stephen Garcia
Topic: Decision Making

Decision making is a constant task in everyday life, yet decision making is especially important in organizations as our decisions not only affect us but they also affect other members of the organization, the broader organization, outside stakeholders, and more. This course thus seeks to provide an overview of decision-making from a psychological and behavioral decision theory perspective. The content of this course relies heavily on well-established basic research, as students will learn the basics of a variety of decision and cognitive biases as well as the basics of cognition and information processing. Although many of the decision processes and mechanisms that we learn apply to many different domains, the class sessions will focus on four domains of decision making: (i) risk and decision making, (ii) persuasion and decision making, (iii) ethical decision making, and (iv) well-being and decision making. In concert with the lectures and interactive discussions, together we will learn how these various decision processes and phenomena apply to our workplace experiences and how they can inform initiatives to improve decision processes.