Shattered Dreams: Level 3 Communications

A quick growing company, gaining well over a couple million subscribers, in the eyes of many Adelphia Communication Corporation seemed to be headed to lead the industry very soon. In what seems to be the early 2000s, this is for Americans, this company and the world things drastically changed due to unethical behavior from some of the company’s top leaders within the organization. What will be revealed in this case study below, many people would not believe that all this happen over the course of a short time and how far people will go to gain what they believe is “success” at any cost.

He analysis conformation bias, hindsight bias, self-serving bias, and other types. When talking about conformation bias McRaney analysis that we have constructed our thoughts and opinions based on information we have accumulated based on our beliefs, while ignoring what the information against other opinions. A form of conformation bias that McRaney uses in page twenty-seven is: When you talk about a movie you haven’t seen in a long time and all of a sudden you are surrounded by information of said movie, you believe that fate is trying to tell you something. In reality conformation bias is occurring. You are have noticed more information about the movie because you have dismissed any other information. We seek out information that only enhances our beliefs and discriminates against the facts. Hindsight bias is relatable because we look at newfound information and speculate that we had already known it all along. Hindsight bias isn’t necessarily good because we have tendency to always wanting to be right, so after learning something new we edit our memories so we seem more factual than what we really are. McRaney states on page thirty-three that studies are the best way to demonstrate hindsight bias for researchers. Researchers can write a false statement in an article and we manufacture this information as our truth. Another form of bias McRaney talked about was self-serving bias. Self-serving bias

In terms of the anchoring bias, regularly revisit of the original decision based on the newly gathered data needs to be set up within the organization. Additionally, the decision maker should avoid the Confirmation Trap in which Bazerman and Moore (2009) argues that people tend to seek information that confirms their expectations and hypotheses. To recognize the bias, Mike Francis could

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2- Collins, B. (2007, May 8). Tracking Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule." New

On December 16, 2015 I had a private conversation with Officer James Johnson (402) in regards of following proper communication channel with his Supervisor. Officer James informed me at the shift briefing on 12/26/15 at 1900 hrs. that he came 2 hours early approximately 1700 hours because Officer Jason Peterman (404) left at 1630 hrs. And he also stated that the following on 12/27/15 he had to come 2 hours early at 1700 hrs. because Officer Williams Miller (406) wanted to leave early. I, Steven Evans expressed my concerns to the Officer and stated as his immediate Supervisor he should have called me to inform and when ask to by another Officer to come early he should seek an authorization to do so. The Officer understand and stated that he

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Perception biases is demonstrated by Fischer when going from Base Camp to Camp II. Fischer was unfair to the Mountain Madness expedition set because while navigating through the Khumbu Icefall, he decided to turn back to take Kruse back because it was his friend. However, I believe Fischer, being the leader, should have let somebody else return Kruse to the Base Camp. The team could have encounter another error and in that kind of situations, evidently, errors can be deadly. This made Fischer to start feeling

Unconscious bias is prejudices influencing individual thoughts and behaviours, influencing decision-making mainly owing to the judgements about other individuals and situations, without enough information. Unconscious bias affects the recruitment and selection in organisations as individuals or human elements have a significant contribution to the success of these processes (Beattie and Johnson 2012). The objective of recruitment and selection in any organisation is to attract the most potential and capable candidates therefore to select the most suitable applicants for appropriate jobs. Unconscious bias from stereotyping stems mainly from race and gender and has been studied in great detail from manufacturing, technology to the financial, and professional service industries (Collins 2007). However less research has been explored on unconscious bias affecting the recruitment and selection process within the retail fashion industry (Guryan and Charles 2013).

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Level 3 Communications is an American Company incorporated in Delaware that dates back to 1985 and headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. A major shift in the company took place in 1998 when they set out to shift their business focus and create a company dedicated to the development of a facilities-based, end-to-end communications network optimized to provide IP communication services. ("History," 2015, p. 1) This paper will look at some of the key statistics as they relate to the employees, competition, along with the company’s stock price over price over the past three years. It will also evaluate some key financial ratios and will make an evaluation as to the overall financial health of the company to make a determination if the company will be around long term and would be a good company to invest with.