Decision behavior analisys: a study with the management professors

Abstract

Since Simon’s first studies (1957), that the decision behavior has been deserving prominence in the literature and in the managerial concerns. The problem of the, which are concerned with the form which the decisions are effectively taken. It is an undeniable fact that the people use a limited reasoning power, if compared with the need of deciding complex subjects in a rational and structured way. Moreover, the human being to solve his incapacity of working with complex problems uses mechanisms to simplify them, through the use of heuristics that sometimes results in decision behaviors biases. This way, this work searches to show as the professionals of administration courses in Brazil are affected bye heuristics and decision biases. To reach this, 121 academics in administration answered a questionnaire with three questions where they were invited to make a decision or to emit an opinion about the aspects approached in each questions.