Exam 5: Decision Making

Non-programmed decisions involve difficult problem solving.

Diversity provides several challenges for decision making.Which of the following are differences in culture that can affect this process?

Decision making is not a random process.

The Vroom-Yetton model focuses on how many levels of participation?

Which of the following is not in sequence?

The involvement of citizens and stakeholders is of great importance in public decision making.Which of these democratic ideals are required in the decision making process?

"Groupthink," a mode of thinking,occurs when:

Street-level bureaucrats make no policy choices themselves in the exercise of their responsibility.

In the organizational process model,decision makers are:

Time is always available for decision making to undergo a calculated process.

Assuming consistency,intentionality,purposefulness,and rationality on the part of individuals invariably leads to misunderstanding and possibly false assumptions.

The organizational process model of decision making sees government as composed of a few seamlessly allied organizations,each controlled by individual leaders.

The decision roles should be determined by organization chart.

Organizations create their own institutionalized rationality.

What is managerial discretion?

The governmental?political model is a model with a single unitary decision maker.

The "economic man" argument suggests that:

Compare and contrast the organizational process model and the governmental politics model of decision making.

In terms of who should be involved in the decision making process,which of the following is not one of the methods?

Non-programmed decisions are those that are: