Chapter 12: Enhanced Decision Making Flashcards
Structured Decisions
- repetitive and routine
- definitive handling procedures
Unstructured Decisions
- judgment, evaluation, insight
- novel, important, nonroutine
- no set procedure
- more complex
Semistructured Decisions
only part of the problem has a definite solution with procedure
Senior Management
many unstructured decisions
Middle Management
semistructured decisions
Operational, Rank, File Employees
Structured Decisions
4 Steps Decision Making
1) Intelligence: discovering and identifying the problem
2) Design: explore decisions
3) Choice: choose solution alternative
4) Implementation: make chosen alternative work and monitor solution
Operational Control
executing specific tasks efficiently and effectively
Management Control
Acquiring resources efficicently in accomplishing organizations goals
Strategic Planning
long-range goals and policies for growth and resource allocation
Managerial Roles
expectations of activities that managers should perform. in org (interpersonal, informational, decisional)
Classic Model of Management
control work of other, decide things
Contemporary Behavioral Model of Management
- less systemic, more informal, less organized
5 Attributes that Differ from Classical Model
1) perform work and unrelenting pace
2) activities are fragmented
3) managers prefer specific necessary info
4) oral communication preferred
5) high priority given to maintaining diverse and complex contacts
Interpersonal Roles
-Figurehead (represent company to world, symbolic)
- Leader (motivate, counsel)
- Liaison (maintain network outside org)