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8 Step Decision-Making Process

1. Identification of a Problem 2. Identification of decision criteria 3. Allocation of weights to criteria 4. development of alternatives 5. Analysis of Alternative 6. Selection of an Alternative 7. Implementation of the Alternative 8. Evaluation of Decision Effectiveness

A Problem is

The existence of a discrepancy between an existing and a desired state of affairs
C. The Problem must be 1. such that is exerts some type of pressure on the manager to act

In Allocating weights to the decision criteria...

Assign the most important criterion a score, and then assign weights against that standard

Allowing those impacted by the outcome to participate in the process is important in

effectively implementing the chosen alternative

Managers are assumed to be rational because...

They make consistent value maximizing choices. Managers can make rational decisions if the alternatives are limited

Rational Decision Making

A type of decision making in which choices are logical and consistent and maximize value

Bounded Rationally

When managers circumvent the rational decision making model and find what to satisfice

satisficing

The type of decision making in which the solution is considered "good enough"

Programmed Decision Making is

Relatively simple and tends to rely heavily on previous solutions

A rule is

An explicit statement that tells a manager what he or she can or cannot do

A policy

In the majority of cases, contains an ambiguous term

The difference between a policy and a rule is

A policy is very broad and establishes parameters

A certainty is

A situation in which a manager can make accurate decisions because the outcome of every alternative is known Example: If an individual knows the price of three similar cars at different dealerships, he is operating under certainty

The retail clothing store manager who estimates how much to order for the current spring season based on last spring's outcome is operating under...

risk

Non programmed decisions are

typically made under a condition of uncertainty

An optimistic Manager

will follow maximizing the maximum possible payoff called a maximax choice

A Pessimist Manager

Will follow Maximing the minimum possible payoff called a maximin choice

A Manager who desires to minimize his maximum regret will op for a...

minimax choice

heuristics

Many Managers use Rules of Thumb to simplify their decision making

overconfidence bias

When decision makers tend to think they know more than they do or hold unrealistically positive views of themselves and their performance

confirmation bias

When decision makers seek out information that reaffirms their past choice discount information that contradicts past judgements

representation bias

When decision makers access the likelihood of an event based on how closely it resembles other events

To make Effective decisions 1. In today's fast moving world, managers need to know when

it is time to call it quits

A characteristic that the experts say an effective decision making process has is that it requires

only as much information and analysis as is necessary

Managers of highly reliable organizations (HROS)...

Get the input of frontline supervisors and let them make decisions (Kasain/Theory Z)

Managing Change

is an integral part of every manager's job

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

is an example of government laws and regulations

Assembly Line technology

is changing dramatically as organizations replace human labor with robots

Global Economic Pressures force organizations to become more...

cost efficient

The 4 External forces for change

1. Changing consumer needs and wants 2. new government laws 3. Changing technology 4. Economic changes

The 4 Internal Forces for change

1. New Organizational strategy 2. Change in composition of workforce 3. new equipment 4. Changing employee attitudes

Calm Water Metaphor

1. Change is seen as an occasional disruption in the normal flow of events (Occasional storm in calm predictable trip)

White Water Rapids Metaphor

Small raft navigating a raging river with uninterrupted white water rapids. Is consistent with uncertain and dynamic environments continual process.

Lewin's Theory

Is consistent with calm waters theory. Unfreezing the status quo 2. Changing to a new state (direct away from the status quo) 3. Refreezing to make the change permanent (stabilizing the new situation)

Organizational Change is Classified as (Manger's options) What three things?

1. People 2. Structure 3. Technology

Intergroup Development (OD technique) Involves

1. Changing the attitudes, stereotypes and perceptions that work groups have about each other

An individual is likely to resist change because of

1. Uncertainty 2. Concern over personal loss 3. Belief the change is not in the organization's best interest

To cope with the complexity of life Individual's rely on

habits or programmed responses

Stress symptoms can be grouped in what three categories?

1. Physiological 2. Psychological (irritability) 3. Behavioral (Eating Habits) (stress itself is not necessarily bad)

Strategic Management

The collection of managerial decisions and actions that determine the long run performance of an organization

Business Model

A strategic design for how a company intends to profit from its strategies, work processes, and work activities

Studies of the factors that contribute to organizational performance have shown positive relationship between

strategic planning and performance

In the first step of strategic management the mission of the firm answers the question...

what is our reason for being?

In analyzing the environment, managers should know

pending legislation that might affect the organization

Opportunities and threats are outcomes from a study of the

external environment

resources

An organization's financial, physical, human and intangible assets that are used to develop, manufacture and deliver products or services to its customers.

Core competencies

The organization's major value-creating skills capabilities and resources that determine the organization's competitive weapons
EX: communicating with customers in their own languages worldwide.

The merging of the analysis 1. of internal and external factors influencing the organization's strategies is known as

SWOT analysis

The three main types of corporate strategies

1. Growth 2. Stability 3. Renewal

The three types of growth strategies

1. concentration 2. integration 3. Diversification

Growth through Concentration is achieved when an organization chooses to...

grow by increasing its own business operations

In forward vertical integration

The organization gains control of its outputs by becoming its own distributor

Horizontal Integration

When an organization attempts to combine with other organizations in the same industry

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