Author Question: Angelica works for a company that creates and installs weather monitoring devices and software, and ... (Read 93 times)

Themember4 · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

Angelica works for a company that creates and installs weather monitoring devices and software, and her company has been hired by the National Weather Service to set up a worldwide weather observation system using weather satellites. Angelica decides that the best way to approach this task would be to minimize cost by focusing only on areas with consistent and similar weather patterns in the recent past and perhaps a few nearby regions. Which decision-making strategy is Angelica is using?

a. rational-comprehensive
b. unitary formulation
c. mixed scanning
d. incrementalism

Question 2

What is one criticism of the rational-comprehensive theory?

a. It is unrealistic in the intellectual demands it makes on the decision-maker.
b. It overlooks the value aspect of decision making and fails to address the importance of value agreement.
c. It assumes the existence of a pluralist decision making body, which is often not the case.
d. It does not provide a realistic decision making model for situations where decision-makers are faced with concrete, clearly defined problems.