Which step in the decision making process involves conveying the decision to those affected?

BUSINES 269

Principles Of Management

City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College

A set of eight steps that includes identifying a problem, selecting a solution,and evaluating the effectiveness of the solution.

Steps in the Decision-making process

  1. Identification of a problem
  2. Identification of decision criteria
  3. Allocation of weights to criteria
  4. Development of alternatives
  5. Analysis of alternatives
  6. Selection of alternative
  7. Implementation of the alternative

What Defines a Decision Problem?

Step 1 = identification of a problem or adiscrepancy between an existing and a desired state of affairs.

Problem: A discrepancy between an existing and a desired state of affairs.

Amanager who mistakenly solves the wrong problem perfectly is just likely toperform poorly as the manager who fails to identify the right  problem and does nothing.

What is Relevant in the Decision-Making Process?

Step 2 = Identification of the decision criteria.

Decision criteria:  Factors that are relevant in a decision.

What is NOT identified is as important as what is. If a decision maker does not identify a particular factor in the second step, it's treated as irrelevant.

How Does the Decision Maker Weigh the Criteria and Analyze Alternatives?

Step 3 = allocate weights to the items listed in step 2 in order to give them their relative priority in the decision.

Step 4 = List the alternatives that could succeed in resolving the problem.  Simply a list of alternatives.

Step 5 = Critically analyze each alternative by evaluating and appraising it against the criteria.

What Determines the Best Choice?

Step 6 = Choosing the best alternative from among those assessed. 

What Happens in Decision Implementation?

Step 7 = Implementation of the Alternative

Decision Implementation:  Putting a decision into action.

Includes conveying the decision to those affected and getting their commitment to it.

What is the Last Step in the Decision Process?

Step 8 = Managers appraise the result of the decision to see whether it has corrected the problem.

Judgmental shortcuts or 'rules of thumb' used to simplify decision making.

Decision-Making Errors & Biases

  • Overconfidence
  • Immediate Gratification
  • Anchoring Effect
  • Selective Perception
  • Confirmation
  • Framing
  • Availability
  • Representation
  • Randomness
  • Sunk costs
  • Self-Serving
  • Hindsight

When decision makers fixate on initial information as a starting pint and then,once set, fail to adequately adjust for subsequent information.

When decision makers try to create meaning out of random events.

Decision makers forget that current choices cant correct the past.  They incorrectly fixate on past expenditures of time, money, or effort in assessing choices rather than on future consequences.  Instead of ignoring sunk costs, they cant forget them.

Three approaches managers can use to make decisions

  1. Rational decision Making
  2. Bounded Reality
  3. Intuitive decision Making

Describes choices that are consistent and value-maximizing within specified constraints.

Making decisions that are rational within the limits of a manager's ability to process information.

Accepting solutions that are "good enough"

Managers cant possibly analyze all information on all alternatives.

Most decisions that managers make don't fit the assumptions of perfect rationality.

An increased commitment to a previous decision despite evidence that it may have been a poor decision.

Intuitive decision Making

Making decisions on the basis of experience, feelings, and accumulated judgment.

"unconscious reasoning"

  • Structured problem:  A straightforward, familiar, and easily defined problem.
    • Structured problems call for programmed decisions
  • Unstructured problem:  A problem that is new or unusual for which information is ambiguous or incomplete.
  • Unstructured problems call for unique non-programmed decisions

A repetitive decision that can be handled using a routine approach.

A series of interrelated, sequential steps used to respond to a structured problem.

An explicit statement that tells employees what can or cannot be done.

A guideline in making decisions.

A unique and nonrecurring decision that requires a custom-made solution.

What Decision-Making Conditions Do Managers Face?

  • Certainty
  • Risk
  • Uncertainty

A situation in which a decision maker can make accurate decisions because all outcomes are known.

A situation in which a decision maker is able to estimate the likelihood of certain outcomes.

A situation in which a decision maker has neither certainty nor reasonable probability estimates available.

What are the Advantages of Group Decision Making?

  • Group decisions provide more complete information than do individual ones.
  • Group decision making increases acceptance of a solution.

What are the Disadvantages of Group Decision Making?

  • Group sare time consuming.
  • Minority domination - where members of a group are never perfectly equal.  (rank, experience, knowledge, influence,verbal skills, assertiveness, etc…)
  • Groupthink

When a group of experts extensive pressure on an individual to withhold his or her different views in order to appear to be in agreement.

How Can You Improve Group Decision making?

  • Brainstorming
  • Nominal group technique
  • Electronic meeting

An idea-generating process that encourages alternatives while withholding criticism.

a decision-making technique in which group members are physical present but operate independently.

a type of nominal group technique in which participants are linked by computer.

the ability to produce novel and useful ideas.

Includes four elements:

  1. specific goals
  2. participative decision making
  3. an explicit timeperiod
  4. performance feedback

  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Opportunities
  • Threat

  • Organizational Objectives
  • Divisional Objectives
  • Departmental Objectives
  • Individual Ovjectives

What includes conveying a decision to those affected and getting their commitment to it?

Implementation is conveying a decision to those affected by it and getting their commitment to it.

What are the steps involved in decision

Step 1: Identify the decision. You realize that you need to make a decision. ... .
Step 2: Gather relevant information. ... .
Step 3: Identify the alternatives. ... .
Step 4: Weigh the evidence. ... .
Step 5: Choose among alternatives. ... .
Step 6: Take action. ... .
Step 7: Review your decision & its consequences..

Which of the following is the step in the decision

The correct answer is evaluating the decision's effectiveness. The last step in the process of decision-making is Evaluating or Monitoring the decision's effectiveness. Monitoring is required to determine the effectiveness of the implemented decisions.

What are the 4 types of decision

The four categories of decision making.
1] Making routine choices and judgments. When you go shopping in a supermarket or a department store, you typically pick from the products before you. ... .
2] Influencing outcomes. ... .
3] Placing competitive bets. ... .
4] Making strategic decisions. ... .
The constraint of decision making research..