ORGS 4560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consistency

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 4560
• Professor: Chris Bell

Document Summary

Even swaps: a rational method for making trade-offs. When you only have one objective you only need to make a single set of comparisons. Gives you chance to focus all energy on deciding real value of objectives to you and your organization of different courses of action. Let"s you have a clear picture of all alternatives and their consequences for each objective. Alternatives = column; objective = row: need to write concise description of the consequence that given alternative has, must use consistent terminology for the given objective. Ex: person needs to find a job to help father recover from illness and provide for the: wants adequate pay, good benefits, vacation allowance, gain experience, have. Table allows you to put a lot of info into a concise and orderly format; alternatives can flexibility, and wants enjoyable work family be compared easily, objective by objective: everything is defined at outset of decision process.