Exam 12: Decision Making Processes

The Carnegie Model of organizational decision making was developed by Max Weber.

The management science model for decision making is best to use when:

Which of the following is the step in the decision making process in which the manager digs below the surface to analyze the cause of the problem?

The bounded rationality approach is often associated with programmed decision processes.

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

The phenomenon known as "escalating commitment" refers to:

Which of the following is not recognized as a constraint and trade-off during nonprogrammed decision making?

When decisions are nonprogrammed, ill-defined, and piling on top of one another, there is not reason for the individual manager to even attempt to use the steps in the rational approach.

Based on the fact that the Carnegie approach relies on rich face-to-face communication, discuss limitations of the approach for organizational decision making.

The incremental decision model is based on research showing that:

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

Which of the following are characteristics of organized anarchies?

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

The agreement among managers about the nature of a problem or opportunity and about which goals and outcomes to pursue is referred to as:

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

Intuitive decision making uses ____ to make decisions.

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

An organizational theorist said, "Decision making cannot be taught in a management class." In what ways do you agree with his statement? In what ways do you disagree?

During the "specify decision objectives" step of the rational approach, the manager determines what performance outcomes should be achieved by a decision.

When Tom Smith, CEO of Food Lion reads Modern Grocer, visits other grocery stores to compare prices, and reviews daily sales figures, he is doing activities in which of the following steps of the rational approach?