Table 10.2
Decision makers have a number of options available to them as to how to categorize and make decisions. Ray selected his job because he thought it simply felt like the right place to work. The organization and job seemed to fit his values and career goals. When the secretary that reports to Ray in his new job decides that she needs office supplies, she calls up central purchasing and places an order. But in order to get the new computer software she wants for her job, she has to get Ray to sign off on the purchase. After six months on the job Ray concludes that he needs an assistant. He writes up the job description, receives permission to recruit for the position. He receives about 150 resumes in the mail. He sets up interviews with the top 10 candidates. As he is interviewing candidate number four, he decides he meets all the criteria and offers him the job, which he accepts.
-Refer to Table 10.2. The decision-making model Ray seems to be using in his recruiting/hiring efforts is the:
A) traditional analytical model.
B) rational-economic model.
C) administrative model.
D) image theory model.

Question

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Ray's decision-making process in recruiting/hiring is following the administrative model, which focuses on finding satisfactory rather than optimal solutions by using intuition, judgment, and experience. Ray relied on his own judgment and experience to determine which candidate met all the criteria and offered him the job, without conducting a thorough analysis or making a rational-economic decision based on costs and benefits.

Table 10.2 Decision Makers Have a Number of Options Available to Them