Scenario D. Effectively Organized, Inc. has hired a consultant to help them with organizational decision making. The consultant's first meeting is set up to describe to the managers of Effectively Organized, Inc. the models of organizational decision processes. Each of the managers seems to prefer one of the models over the others.
-The Vice President of Production tells the group that in his area of the company,many managers don't even agree about what their goals are and certainly cannot agree on what action to take.His managers are using which model of decision making?
A)Bounded rationality
B)Incremental model
C)Garbage can model
D)Coalitional model
E)Crisis model

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The Vice President of Production's description of managers not agreeing on goals or actions suggests a chaotic decision-making process. This matches the Garbage Can model, where decisions are made without clear goals or priorities and solutions are chosen haphazardly. This model suggests that decisions are the result of the interaction of four elements: problems, solutions, participants, and choice opportunities. It is a non-linear model that does not follow a structured decision-making process.