A Committee of Employees Developed a Process Whereby They Would

question 47

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 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