Sunrise Health Systems has hired a consultant to help with organizational decision making. The consultant's first meeting is set up to explain to the managers of Sunrise Health Systems various models of organizational decision processes. Each of the managers seems to prefer one of the models over the others. The vice president of human resources believes that decision makers cannot be truly rational in their decisions. He tells the group that he sees many situations with managers who do not have enough time to process all the relevant information and who regularly face very complex problems. His observation illustrates
A)bounded rationality.
B)the incremental model.
C)the garbage can model.
D)cognitive dissonance.
E)rationalization.

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The vice president of human resources' observation reflects the theory of bounded rationality, which suggests that decision makers do not have the ability or resources to process all available information, leading them to make decisions based on limited information and their own cognitive biases.

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