Questions

a) When an organization sets stringent deadlines and quick turnaround times, it will likely ________.

Options

1. hinder decision making

2. Foster a creative environment

3. support decision making

4. foster a creative environment

b) A creative decision making process by which employees are required to look at the problem from different points of view is called ________.

Options

1. Mentoring for expertise

2. Intrinsic motivation

3. Brainstorming

4. Cooperative exploration

c) When an employee removes outlying data from a set to make it ready for decision-making use, he is completing which step in using data for decision making?

Options

1. Collecting the data

2. Deciding on a strategy

3. Making a decision about the data

4. Analyzing the data

d) What is the distinguishing feature of data that has many "cases" of information?

Options

1. groupings

2. higher complexity

3. multiple rows of date

4. many columns

e) What is managerialism?

Options

1. Management, ideology and inflation

2. A concept that sees citizens and their needs as building blocks for society

3. The belief or reliance on the use of professional managers in administering or planning an activity.

4. A concept introduced by Henri Fayol and Frederick Winslow Taylor that included worker specialization and management concepts

f) Vesna is taking a look at different aspects of her organization in order to determine what they do well and what they dont. Shes also studying the market for distraction and underserved areas in order to focus specifically on their competition. Which tool would help Vesna best with this project?

Options

1. SWOT analysis

2. Pareto diagram

3. Feasibility report

4. Vroom-Yetton-Jago Decision Making Model

g) The distinctive feature of linear model of decision making is:

Options

1. when problems, solutions, participants and choice opportunities inform decisions

2. when an individual lists pros and cons and adds numerical value or weight to each.

3. when past experience and gut feelings are used to make the decision because no other options are available

4. that the decision maker identifies the problem and reviews a few reasonable alternatives.

h) The defining characteristic of a ________ bias is characterized by an individual looking for information to support his claim rather than making a full investigation.

Options

1. Overconfidence

2. Representative

3. Confirmation

4. Hindsight