SOC361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Academic Journal, Models 1, The Huffington Post
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6: bay of pigs case study (posted on web site) Today"s objectives: know : maximizing and satisficing models of decision-making, garbage can model of decision making, three ways you can influence a decision. Terms to know strategic decisions tactical decisions satisficing bounded rationality groupthink strategic decisions tactical decisions. Levels: had to decide wher to focus time and attention. Analysis: wilson ice cream: decisions employees make are important, influence and impact they"re gonna make. Upper levels, more uncertainty, not certain what outcomes are going to be. Even if you did know, second level of uncertainty in what is the. Dealing with high levels goals, which are general and vague: high level decisions = strategic decision. Example with space shuttle disasters: could have wilson decided to hire more delivery men, but he didn"t have the information he needed work load, situation. Managers have a responsibility to know their organizations, you could say it"s a failure of leadership of management, or wilson.
