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 Marketing declares that her people disagree on goals and have now formed groups to advocate for their own interests.Her managers are using
A)bounded rationality
B)incremental model
C)garbage can model
D)coalitional model
E)crisis model

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The Vice President of Marketing's situation where her managers have formed groups to advocate for their own interests, indicates a coalitional model of decision making where power and influence are spread across different groups or coalitions within the organization. In this model, decision making is the result of bargaining, negotiation, and compromise among coalitions with differing goals and interests.