Exam 12: Decision Making Processes

In the garbage can model:

The incremental decision process model places emphasis on:

Assume you are involved in important decision making in a medium-size organization. There are three decisions that currently face your organization. One is a problem of integrating the inventory management system with your production system. A second involves the selection of another organization for an acquisition. The third is whether to continue a product line that has been losing market share. Your finance vice president believes the product line should be dropped, while the marketing manager believes that more advertising aimed at a different market will revive sales of the product. Discuss which decision-making approach is likely to be most helpful in analyzing each of these situations.

Management science sometimes produces decision failures, in part because quantitative data are not rich.

_____ means managers look around in the immediate environment for a solution to quickly resolve a problem.

What is a problematic search? What is its role in decision making?

____ are repetitive and well-defined, and procedures exist for resolving the problem.

Which of the following is not one of the four streams relevant to organizational decision making?

_____ is formally defined as the process of identifying and solving problems.

Problemistic search means that managers look around in the extended environment until they find the perfect solution to eventually resolve a problem.

From your own experiences, describe some decision mistakes you made and how you learned from them.

A company that uses a computerized system extensively in their production process from the design stage through the automatic ordering of raw materials through preparation for delivery would be using which type of organizational decision making?

Problem consensus refers to understanding and agreement about how to solve problems and reach organizational goals.

What process would explain increasing the amount of budget for an ongoing project on which managers received feedback that it was destined for failure?

List and describe the steps of the rational approach to decision making.

The incremental model places major emphasis on political and social factors that influence decision outcomes.

Compare the individual decision making approach of rationality to any one of the organizational decision making approaches or models.

Which stage of the organizational decision making process occurs when alternative courses of action are considered and one alternative is selected and implemented?

Which of the following is not an organizational constraint during nonprogrammed decision making?

____ refers to understanding and agreement about how to solve problems and reach organizational goals.