$2.$ Decision$-$Making Models

Managers often base their hiring decisions on gut feelings. These feelings are typically formed within two minutes of meeting a job applicant and have little to do with the applicant$$s ability to do the job. These hiring managers are using the model of decision making.

Suppose that you work as a gutter cleaner. You have been doing your job for years, and you go up and down ladders every day. But today, as you put the ladder up against the house for your next job, you have a feeling that says, $$Don$$t get on it$.$ You look at the ladder several times, and you don$$t see anything wrong with it$,$ but the feeling persists, so you put your ladder on your truck and do the job with another ladder. When you come home, you start to remove the first ladder from the truck, and the third rung breaks off in your hand. If you had stepped on it$,$ you would have had a nasty fall.

This is an example of decision making process, guided by $.$