Dan works 50 to 60 hours a week supervising a group of engineers. He realizes th

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Dan works 50 to 60 hours a week supervising a group of engineers. He realizes that he is spending too much time training new engineers and starts thinking about new options. He could delegate the training to the senior engineers, ask the human resources department to offer training seminars, or require better work experience from all future employees. Which step in the rational model of decision making is Dan performing here?

Question 19 options:

Identifying the problem

Identifying alternative solutions

Getting feedback

Gathering and organizing facts

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Question 20 (2 points)

Which of the following is a practice to develop creativity?

Question 20 options:

Think of only a few alternatives to avoid overthinking.

Evaluate alternatives immediately after you think of them.

Employ the process of bounded rationality when thinking of ideas.

Jot down all alternatives without rejecting any.

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Question 21 (2 points)

Choosing an alternative that meets minimum standards of acceptability is a form of:

Question 21 options:

purposive rationality.

bounded rationality.

instrumental rationality.

subjective rationality.

A)

Identifying the problem

B)

Identifying alternative solutions

C)

Getting feedback

D)

Gathering and organizing facts

Explanation / Answer

Question 19:

Dan has identified the problem, that he is spending to much time on the training. So to reduce the time spend by him he had identified various alternatives like training by senior managers, training seminars by HRM, etc. Dan is performing step of Identifying alternatives.

Thus, the options A, C, and D are incorrect.

Ans: Correct option is B, Dan is performing step of identifying alternative s in the rational nodel of decision making.

Question 20:

In decision-making, creativity means identifying and generating alternatives thet are innovative in nature or unique from the past results. Thus, it is imprtant to be open to your own ideas, so that as many alternativces can be generated. Even if alternative is not very close to the required solution consider it and jot it down for a while and dont evalute until the list of alternatives is exhusted.

Thus, the option A, B, C are incorrect options.

The correct option is D, to Jot down all alternatives without rejecting any is best practice for creativity.

Question 21:

Many times it happens that out of listed alternatives it seems that it is impossible to find best alternative. So instead of limiting the evaluttion based on best performer, the alternatives can evaluted based on limits or bounds on the performance. Decision maker defines the minimum limit or crietria for acceptability and selects the alternative that satisfy these bounds or limits or crieteria. Setting bounds or limitation on alternatives performance is known as bounded rationality.

Thus, options A, C, D are incorrect options.

Ans: The correct option is B,

Bounded rationality. When it seems impossible or unreasonable to find the best alternative in the universe, decision makers settle for an alternative they consider good enough The process is also known as bounded rationality, that is, the decision maker places limits, or bounds, on the rational model of decision-making. The decision maker considers alternatives only until he or she finds one that meets his or her minimum criteria for acceptability.

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