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Is It Individual Decision Making Is An Irrational Process?

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Is It Individual Decision Making Is An Irrational Process?

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I agree with the above statement that for the most part, individual decision making in organizations is an irrational process. First, the rational decision-making process includes the following steps: Define the problem Indentify the decision criteria Allocate weights to the criteria Develop the alternatives Evaluate the alternatives Select the best alternatives Do managers follow this process or are they beset with problems that prevent them from following the rational decision-making process? The text provides quite a bit of evidence that would preclude the organizational manager from making decisions in a rational way as follows: Bounded Rationality: This is where people respond to complex problems by reducing them to levels at which they can readily understand it. This lends to compromising the ability to define the problem and identify the decision criteria, correctly (Robbins, p. 149). Intuition: This is a nonconscious process created from distilled experience. It is not a ration

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