Study Details

Title:

Multiple Goals: The effect of complex decisions on decision quality

Researcher:

Michael Hazboun   

Contact:

"Michael Hazboun" <hazbo002@umn.edu>

Term:

Fall 2025

Description:

This project will examine decision quality and consistency of decision aid use when a hiring decision is made in pursuit of multiple job criteria, versus a single criterion - for example, hiring people to both maximize Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) and minimize Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs), versus hiring to maximize OCBs alone. There has been very little research addressing situations where a hiring decision requires the pursuit of multiple criteria at once, particularly with predictors that correlate differently with each criterion (e.g., some personality variables are strongly associated with OCBs but not CWBs or vice versa, and a weighting scheme that optimally combines predictors in pursuit of one criterion would be notably suboptimal for the other). This project will shine a light on how having multiple decision criteria will result in differences in decision aid use and decision quality.

Delivery Format:

Self-guided (online)

Maximum number of sessions:

1

Maximum Time Commitment:

30 minutes

Maximum REP Point Award:

1

Requirements:

• 18 and over