Question

1. Should leaders be worried about perceptions of fairness? As a leader, how can you promote fairness in decision making within your own organization that you belong to.

2. What advantages and disadvantages does human judgment have compared to linear models when it comes to making quantitative predictions?

3. Describe each of the three debiasing stages (unfreezing, change, and refreezing) and explain the mechanisms that make each of them hard to implement.

Answer 1

Answer of question 1.

In my view the perception of fairness is a very critical component in decision being made by the leaders in an organization and a leader must take care of this perception among the stakeholders who will be impacted due to his decision.

To promote the decision making with greater fairness it most easy way to do that is take more decisions which are based on data, and only those decision should be taken based on the knowledge or experience which cannot be really backed up by any authentic data.

If the decisions are being made on the basis of data then, the acceptance of such decisions will be very high as these are based on facts which are universally acceptable, and no one would question the fairness of the decision.

Second action would be making the entire decision-making process more transparent so that any element of double on the fairness of decision would be eliminated and more trust can be installed among the stakeholders.

Third action would be trying to make your decision making as collaborative as possible and let the other understand well the rationale behind your decision.

If a leader practice the above three actions his/her decision would be considered fairer among the stakeholders.