Scenario D

Multiple Choice

Scenario D. Use the information given below to answer the following questions. Healthy Day Regional Medical Center's management team has several decisions to make. They are:
1. Determine which patients have to be admitted the next day.
2. Decide whether to purchase the only other medical center in the region.
3. Decide which candidates will meet the requirements for the nursing training program.
4. Determine whether the medical center should diversify to include more advanced (and substantially more costly) technologies.
-In the context of decision 3, if the authorities select the first candidate who meets the minimum requirements without examining every candidate's file to see if anyone else has better qualifications, they are adopting the method of:

A) maximization.
B) satisficing.
C) optimizing.
D) constraint.
E) constructive conflict.