A Committee of Employees Developed a Process Whereby They Would

question 36

Multiple Choice

A committee of employees developed a process whereby they would choose a new office-cleaning firm from the six companies that tendered proposals for the contract.The process involved carefully assessing each firm on the four factors that were most important (e.g.cost) , weighting the importance of each factor and then choosing the firm with the highest score.This decision-making activity potentially minimizes problems associated with:

• A)production blocking.
• B)constructive conflict.
• C)satisficing.
• D)problem identification.
• E)this process has no value in decision making and is discouraged in the textbook.

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