SOCIOL 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Administrative Behavior, Irving Janis, Toothpaste
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Organizational decision making: rational decision making and bounded rationality . Decision making is one of the most important activities of organizational personnel. There are two primary types of decision making in organizations: strategic decision making=>this is the process of setting goals. Strategic goals are long-term, generally looking at a period of three to five plus years. These two questions come under the organizational category of. Administrative behavior. what does an administrator have to know to make. According to herbert simon, there are four components of the rational decision maker, or what he called homo economicus : -likelihood of maximizing utility (i. e. , the chances of success). Whether toothpaste for example helps you or not. Coming to uci getting educated and shit. But as a rule, most decisions are made under limited or unreliable information and under circumstances where the decision maker only considers a limited number of solutions.
