Business Course Retrospective Comment on how journaling activities helped you recognize the real or potential impact of stakeholder biases as well as your own biases. How do biases or differing perspectives influence the media, public opinion, and decision-making in business and society? Use example from your activities to support your commentary.

The Journaling process provided direct examples of individual bias and of the degree to which pre-existing beliefs and perception color the perceptions of individuals. For example, journaling revealed that people with predominantly conservative political views maintain fundamental beliefs that differ substantially from the views maintained by people with fundamentally liberal points-of-view. I learned that one aspect of modern media consumption is that people tend to seek out editorial opinions that are consistent with the ones they already espouse and that only reinforce them. They do not seek out objective opinions and critical review of the reports...

I learned from exercises involving internal and external stakeholder identification that within business organizations, the very definition of stakeholders (especially external stakeholders) depends substantially on the internal policies and values of business organizations and their leaders.
2) Did participating in the online discussions make you more aware of your views and other people's views about the course topics? Explain you answer.

Yes. In that regard, I became much more aware that many individuals who accept the conservative political position about where fault lies for the current economic environment and about the nature of macroeconomic dynamics tend to believe that the Obama administration is neglecting the importance of empowering the wealthiest industries and organizations to support job creation. They do not…