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What is Authority Bias

Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times
Authority bias refers to the tendency of individuals to blindly accept and defer to those in positions of authority, regardless of whether their opinions or actions are justified. This cognitive bias can manifest itself in a variety of situations, such as workplaces, educational institutions or even social groups where there is an established hierarchy.
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Taming the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person's Opinion) With Agile Metrics and Value Management
Chabi Gupta (School of Commerce, CHRIST University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8392-3.ch013
Abstract
If the organisation's ecosystem has an excess of HiPPOs, data, measured analytics, and other real-time information that minimises uncertainty can help them mitigate the consequences. They disregard the wisdom of the crowd, overlook the front-line staff's abilities, and risk disengaging the workforce. This research advocates agile metrics and value management to tame the HiPPO. The authors posit to reign in opinions with metrics. The corporate enlightenment brought about a revolutionary idea over three centuries ago: to elevate science and knowledge above magical thought and mysticism. When the authors convert this into modern terms, they are referring to data-driven management, analytics, and hypothesis validation. In fact, the idea of applying science in the form of true evidence, confirmed data, etc. to production processes underlies much of the industrial revolution.
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Understanding and Mitigating Authority Bias in Business and Beyond
The predisposition to abide by the tenets of perceived epistemic authorities of either human or post-human beings.
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