Scenario D

question 84

Multiple Choice

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 Human Resources believes that the most important model of decision making is the one which acknowledges that decision makers cannot be truly rational.He tells the group that he sees many situations with managers who don't have enough time to process all the relevant information and who regularly face very complex problems.He seems to prefer which model of organizational decision processes?

• A)Bounded rationality
• B)Incremental model
• C)Garbage can model
• D)Coalitional model
• E)Crisis model

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Definitions:

Time-Driven Activity Rate

This involves calculating cost driver rates based on the time required to complete activities, used in activity-based costing.

Time-Driven

A method or approach that is based on the allocation of time to tasks or activities, often used in costing methodologies to allocate resources or in project management for scheduling.

Activity-Based Costing

A method of allocating overhead and indirect costs to specific products or activities based on their consumption of resources.

Processing Orders

The activities involved in fulfilling customer requests for goods or services.