The Effects of Time Constraints on the Prechoice Screening of Decision Options

Benson, Lehman; Beach, Lee Roy

doi:10.1006/obhd.1996.0075

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“…The first is the arousal and goal difficulty theory which predicts that arousal and goal difficulty impact decision makers in an opposite direction: the more the experimentalist increases the arousal factor, the better the decision, and vice-versa. The second theory is the standard deviation theory formed by Benson and Beach (1996), who predict that deducting one standard deviation of the mean at a time will allow the experimentalist to accurately control the level of time pressure induced on the experiment subjects. Therefore, we deduct a 4 standard deviation from the pre-test results to induce the same level of time pressure that faces the auditors during their busy season.…”

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“…To answer our study questions, we relied upon the mental model theory and the cognitive style theory to predict how SSA and TA structure would behave in judgment decision making. We borrowed (Benson & Beach, 1996;and Huber & Kunz, 2007) model from the psychology field to control the level of time pressure as it provides a more flexible tool to manipulate the exact level of stress needed for the experiment. It is hypothesized that SSA structure is more able to increase auditors" judgment effectiveness than to TA.…”

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Audit Structure, Time Pressure and Judgment Accuracy: A Comparison between Strategic System Audit and Traditional Audit

Abuaddous¹,

Hanefah²,

Laili³

2015

IJEF

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The development of audit practice is a continuous process. The strategic system audit (SSA) method is a quite recent audit procedure that represents a complete shift from old audit techniques as it relies on assessing the client"s business risk using a top-down rather than a bottom-up (traditional) approach. Previous studies focused on the effectiveness of SSA in performing audit. In addition, previous studies did not rule out the role of auditors" experience in an experimental procedure that compares between the two methods. Moreover, the effect of time pressure on auditors" "JDM" effectiveness under Traditional Audit (TA) and SSA during the orientation phase is still lacking in the literature. Using expert auditors as a benchmark and 81 master degree students, a2x2 factorial design experiment and a Mann-Whitney U test show that auditors under SSA method issue a more effective audit assessment than under TA in the absence or presence of time pressure.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Audit Structure, Time Pressure and Judgment Accuracy: A Comparison between Strategic System Audit and Traditional Audit

Abuaddous¹,

Hanefah²,

Laili³

2015

IJEF

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“…The second facet in which time and choices interact concerns decision time, the time available or needed for making a decision, which may strongly influence the manner by which a decision is reached and the corresponding outcome (e.g., Benson & Beach, 1996;Ordóñez & Benson, 1997;Zakay, 1993). For example, there is evidence suggesting that under time constraint, decision makers adjust by switching to simpler strategies when choosing between multiple choice options (e.g., Payne, Bettman, & Johnson, 1993;Weenig & Maarleveld, 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Decision time as information in judgment and choice

Calseyde

Keren

Zeelenberg

2014

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

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“…The 70-second time limit was determined from pilot work as being approximately 1 SD faster than the average natural completion time (cf. Benson & Beach, 1996). A countdown timer in a red box was displayed in a fixed location to the righthand side of the screen and when 70 seconds elapsed, participants were automatically redirected to the next page.…”

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