Kaplan University MT340 unit 4 and 5 discussion

Read Case Study 6.1, BLT Research Team, Inc.: Science and the Circles, found on page 150 in your textbook. Take a virtual field trip to the company’s website at www.bltresearch.com/. Examine the site and apply questions below to sections of the website for further evaluation of the organization’s validity.

How did the company gather and evaluate their data into meaningful information? What evidence did it present in having used concrete, scientific norms for the critical analysis?

Read Case Study 6.1, BLT Research Team, Inc.: Science and the Circles, found on page 150 in your textbook. Take a virtual field trip to the company’s website at www.bltresearch.com/. Examine the site and apply questions below to sections of the website for further evaluation of the organization’s validity.

How do assumptions and values affect the manner in which the research is conducted or reported? Is the company’s cultural environment conducive for solid research projects? Why or why not?

unit 5

By now, you have read the groupthink analysis as presented in the Leadership in Extreme Contexts article. Based upon the groupthink analysis, what Group Techniques (Lumsden et al., 2010, pp. 174-176) would have helped to prevent the Mount Everest disaster and why? What value would brainstorming have provided in this case?

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