The Model of Decision Making That Explains How Managers Should

question 77

Multiple Choice

The model of decision making that explains how managers should make decisions, assuming managers will make logical decisions that will be the optimum in furthering the organization's best interests, is known as the ________. For example, a manager who uses this model may be personally opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas, but she nonetheless decides to outsource customer-service operations to India because doing so is in the company's best interests.

• A) employee relations model
• B) focused decision-making model
• C) interpersonal-decision agenda
• D) solutions agenda
• E) rational decision-making model

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Definitions:

Normal Goods

Goods for which demand increases as consumer income rises, and decreases when consumer income falls.

Inferior Goods

Goods for which demand decreases as the income of consumers increases, opposite to normal goods.

Quantity Demanded

Refers to the total amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a given price level in a given period.

Demand

In economics, it represents consumers' desire to purchase goods and services at certain prices.