Posted: January 2nd, 2017

She is at what state of the managerial decision-making process?

Question 27 Jefferson Inc. is an information consulting firm located in Washington, D.C. Decisions at Jefferson are complex and involve many people, with a significant amount of disagreement and conflict. Which decision making model fits best for this organization? political functional classical administrative bureaucratic Question 28 The assistant director of the human resources department at a large sports equipment manufacturing company believes she is seeing an increase in drinking problems among the workforce. She thinks she needs to investigate further. She is at what state of the managerial decision-making process? diagnosis and analysis of causes development of alternatives recognition of decision requirement evaluation and feedback selection of desired alternatives Question 29 Skip to question text. The Gulf Coast of the United States bristles with oil refineries that churn out a combined 2.5 billion barrels of gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel and other petroleum products each year. That’s ten percent of the world’s annual supply. But getting those resources to distribution centers around the country is a tricky logistics problem. A new website called Transport4 is a centralized order processing system that collects customer shipping requests though the Web and then translates that order information back to each pipeline company’s own internal system. Transport4 simplifies a process that can be as complex as the tangle of pipelines criss-crossing the country. Traditionally, scheduling petroleum shipments to various locations around the country required separate phone calls, faxes, or even snail mail requests to the different pipeline operators serving those regions. Even worse, each carrier had its own product code and scheduling protocol, which made the ordering process different for each company. Now, an oil company shipping to three regions can simply log on to Transport4’s password-protected website and place the orders using a new set of standardized company codes. The Transport4 system automatically routes the orders to the appropriate carriers, who then send scheduling information back to the Trnapsor4 Website. The whole process takes only minutes. When an oil refinery decided to abandon its traditional oil logistics strategies and useTransport4, it was making a(n) __________ decision. nonprogrammed bureaucratic programmed heuristic routine Question 30 Frostburg Fireplaces has used MBO for the past year. Top management just finished evaluating overall performance. The next step in the MBO process should be: to develop new action plans to develop new objectives based on the review of last year’s performance to begin a new MBO “cycle”, using the same objectives as last year to wait several months to allow information to be digested none of these Question 31 For the compact disc industry, the advent of MP3 technology can best be described as what type of innovation? disruptive innovation service innovation productive innovation restructive innovation reverse innovation Question 32 Ashley has average technical skills but her real strengths lay in visualizing the benefits of other’s ideas and in finding financial and political support for these ideas. Ashley is an excellent example of a(n): critic sponsor idea champion inventor bureaucrat