Please answer each question with a combination of the readings, videos, examples from your professional experience and your ideas. Try to make your management solutions as specific and practical as possible.

1. Identify 8 decision-making “traps” that are frequently made by managers and describe how evidence based management can address each flaw.

2. Summarize 5 common mistakes managers make in trying to retain talent and offer a 5 practical suggestions for managers trying to improve their retention skills. What are three risks in focusing your hiring practices on “stars?” Offer three suggestions of how managers can overcome these risks.

3. The article “On rewarding A while hoping for B” suggests that most dysfunctional behaviors exist in organizations because there are incentives for continuing or no disincentives for discontinuing the behavior. Give 4 examples of these dysfunctional behaviors and the incentive for their existence.

4. Identify four reasons why money is an ineffective long-term motivator and identify 4 ways managers can motivate using intrinsic rewards.