Impact of Decision-Making Biases on Career Success

Diplôme Master Impact of Decision-Making Biases on Career Success eng 2017 author Dent Ferrel Tessa 824568 director Brosch Tobias 0000-0001-6883-0383 637221 Research into the biases that affect our decisions has shown how they can affect business decisions and company success, but to our knowledge the impact on career success has never been investigated. This study tests the relevance of five biases, namely temporal discounting, a status quo bias, loss aversion, risk aversion, and susceptibility to framing, in predicting career success. Biases were assessed on 132 adults from one company and tested for predictive validity over three career success measures, namely seniority, employee potential, and promotions. We found that a status quo bias and a tendency to favor smaller immediate rewards were associated with fewer promotions and lower seniority, respectively. In addition, a low status quo bias was associated with career advancement beyond other known predictors such as education, tenure and gender... Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1218 DESISIONLAB Efficience énergétique : affect, décision et comportement 4b14c1ac-2df7-4583-b345-6982afb602f7 Master thesis Private MémoireTessaDentFerrel.pdf 672208 application/pdf closedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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