Hiring: gut feelings or hard numbers? SFU Beedie’s Michael Brydon and Peter Tingling weigh in

Mike Brydon and Peter Tingling are decision theory specialists at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Business, and they have a question they like to ask when giving presentations to senior management groups, especially to human resources managers. “How many here have taken golf lessons to improve their game?” A lot of hands go up. Then they ask: “How many have had instruction to improve their decision making?” No one raises a hand because, as Brydon and Tingling have discovered, all managers, but especially those in HR, consider themselves to be expert decision makers already.

To read the complete article published in the Feb. 18, 2011 edition of the Globe and Mail, click here.