Alan Burgess Is a Manager Who Has to Make a Decision

Alan Burgess is a manager who has to make a decision about a new telephone system for his financial services company. He shares the problem with various subordinates individually, but his final decision may or may not reflect their input. If Alan were to obtain the necessary information from subordinates but they did not generate or evaluate alternatives, he would be using:

A) the second variant on the authority decision of the Vroom-Jago model
B) the first variant on the authority decision of the Vroom-Jago model
C) the first variant on the consultative decision of the Vroom-Jago model
D) the group or consensus decision of the Vroom-Jago model