POSC 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bounded Rationality, Ingroups And Outgroups, Decision Analysis
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Current events: https://www. nytimes. com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker. html, canyon 2 fire: http://www. ocregister. com/2017/10/10/canyon-fire-2-continues-to-burn-today-in-east-ana heim-with-6000-acres-consumed/ Reducing the resource expenditure, uncertainty and risk. An organizational or individual goal related primarily to survival and maintenance. An organizational goal that, if achieves, would have an impact on an organization"s external environment; a goal concerned more with external than internal consequences. Organizational objectives reflecting broad, popular political purposes. Decision making based on efforts made to move toward consciously held goals in a way that requires the smallest input of scarce resources. Assumes the ability to separate ends from means. A technique used to measure relative gains and losses resulting. Uses cost: benefit ratios from alternative policy program options. Proportional relationship between expenditures of given quantity or resources and the benefits derived. Critiques to the rational approach facts from values. Value neutral: rationality is impossible -- impossible to separate. Placing value on sacred things like the value of a human life.
