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Management: Arab World Edition Robbins, Coulter, Sidani, Jamali

Chapter 6: Managers as Decision Makers

Lecturer: [Insert your name here]

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Learning OutcomesFollow this Learning Outline as you read and study this chapter.

6.1 The Decision-Making Process

• Define decision.

• Describe the eight steps in the decision-making process.

6.2 Managers Making Decisions

• Discuss the assumptions of rational decision making.

• Describe the concepts of bounded rationality, satisficing, and escalation of commitment.

• Explain intuitive decision making.

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Learning Outcomes

6.3 Types Of Decisions and Decision-Making Conditions

• Explain the two types of problems and decisions.

• Contrast the three decision-making conditions.

• Explain maximax, maximin, and minimax decision choice approaches.

6.4 Decision-Making Styles

• Describe two decision-making styles.

• Discuss the twelve decision-making biases.

• Explain the managerial decision-making model.

• Describe decision-making practices in the Arab context.

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Learning Outcomes

6.5 Effective Decision Making In Today’s World

• Explain how managers can make effective decisions in today’s world.

• List the six characteristics of an effective decision-making process.

• List the five habits of highly reliable organizations.

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The Decision-Making Process

1. Define decision.

2. Describe the eight steps in the decision-making process.

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Decision Making

Decision

• Making a choice from two or more alternatives.

The Decision-Making Process

• Identifying a problem and decision criteria and allocating weights to the criteria.

• Developing, analyzing, and selecting an alternative that can resolve the problem.

• Implementing the selected alternative.

• Evaluating the decision’s effectiveness.

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The Situation

• Sarah is a sales manager whose reps need new laptops because their old ones are outdated and inadequate for doing their job. To make it simple, assume that it is not economical to add memory to the old computers and it is the company’s policy to purchase, not lease.

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Exhibit 6–1The Decision-Making Process

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Problem

• A discrepancy between an existing and desired state of affairs.

Characteristics of Problems

• A problem becomes a problem when a manager becomes aware of it.

• There is pressure to solve the problem.

• The manager must have the authority, information, or resources needed to solve the problem.

Step 1: Identifying the Problem

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Decision criteria are factors that are important (relevant) to resolving the problem such as:

• Costs that will be incurred (investments required)

• Risks likely to be encountered (chance of failure)

• Outcomes that are desired (growth of the firm)

Step 2: Identifying Decision Criteria

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Decision criteria are not of equal importance:

• Assigning a weight to each item places the items in the correct priority order of their importance in the decision-making process.

Step 3: Allocating Weights to the Criteria

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Criterion Weight

Memory and Storage 10

Battery life 8

Carrying Weight 6

Warranty 4

Display Quality 3

Exhibit 6–2 Criteria and Weights for Computer Replacement Decision

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Identifying viable alternatives

• Alternatives are listed (without evaluation) that can resolve the problem.

Step 4: Developing Alternatives

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Appraising each alternative’s strengths and weaknesses

• An alternative’s appraisal is based on its ability to resolve the issues identified in steps 2 and 3.

Step 5: Analyzing Alternatives

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Exhibit 6–3 Assessed Values of Laptop Computers Using Decision Criteria

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Choosing the best alternative

• The alternative with the highest total weight is chosen.

Step 6: Selecting an Alternative

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Putting the chosen alternative into action

• Conveying the decision to and gaining commitment from those who will carry out the decision

Step 7: Implementing the Alternative

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Exhibit 6–4 Evaluation of Laptop Alternatives Against Weighted Criteria

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The soundness of the decision is judged by its outcomes

• How effectively was the problem resolved by outcomes resulting from the chosen alternatives?

• If the problem was not resolved, what went wrong?

Step 8: Evaluating the Decision’s Effectiveness

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Managers Making Decisions

1. Discuss the assumptions of rational decision making.

2. Describe the concepts of bounded rationality, satisficing, and escalation of commitment.

3. Explain intuitive decision making.

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Managers Making Decisions

• Decision making is part of all four managerial functions (next slide). In fact, that is why we say that decision making is the essence of management.

• And that is why managers ‒ when they plan, organize, lead, and control ‒ are called decision makers.

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Exhibit 6–5 Decisions in the Management Functions

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Making Decisions

Rationality

• Managers make consistent, value-maximizing choices with specified constraints.

• Assumptions are that decision makers:

Are perfectly rational, fully objective, and logical.

Have carefully defined the problem and identified all viable alternatives.

Have a clear and specific goal.

Will select the alternative that maximizes outcomes in the organization’s interests rather than in their personal interests.

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Making Decisions (cont’d)

Bounded Rationality

• Managers make decisions rationally, but are limited (bounded) by their ability to process information.

• Assumptions are that decision makers:

Will not seek out or have knowledge of all alternatives.

Will satisfice ‒ choose the first alternative encountered that satisfactorily solves the problem ‒ rather than maximize the outcome of their decision by considering all alternatives and choosing the best.

• Influence on decision making

Escalation of commitment: an increased commitment to a previous decision despite evidence that it may have been wrong.

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The Role of Intuition

Intuitive decision making

• Making decisions on the basis of experience, feelings, and accumulated judgment.

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Exhibit 6–6 What Is Intuition?

Source: Based on L. A. Burke and M. K. Miller, “Taking the Mystery Out of Intuitive Decision Making,” Academy of Management Executive, October 1999, pp. 91–99.

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Types Of Decisions and Decision-Making Conditions

1. Explain the two types of problems and decisions.

2. Contrast the three decision-making conditions.

3. Explain maximax, maximin, and minimax decision choice approaches.

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Types of Problems and Decisions

Structured Problems

• Involve goals that are clear

• Are familiar (have occurred before)

• Are easily and completely defined ‒ information about the problem is available and complete

Programmed Decision

• A repetitive decision that can be handled by a routine approach.

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Types of Programmed Decisions

Procedure

• A series of interrelated steps that a manager can use to respond (applying a policy) to a structured problem.

Rule

• An explicit statement that limits what a manager or employee can or cannot do.

Policy

• A general guideline for making a decision about a structured problem.

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Policy, Procedure, and Rule Examples

Policy

• Accept all customer-returned merchandise.

Procedure

• Follow all steps for completing merchandise return documentation.

Rules

• Managers must approve all refunds over $50.00.

• No credit purchases are refunded for cash.

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Problems and Decisions

Unstructured Problems

• Problems that are new or unusual and for which information is ambiguous or incomplete.

• Problems that will require custom-made solutions.

Nonprogrammed Decisions

• Decisions that are unique and nonrecurring.

• Decisions that generate unique responses.

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Exhibit 6–7 Programmed Versus Nonprogrammed Decisions

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Decision-Making Conditions

Certainty

• A situation in which a manager can make an accurate decision because the outcome of every alternative choice is known.

Risk

• A situation in which the manager is able to estimate the likelihood (probability) of outcomes that result from the choice of particular alternatives.

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Exhibit 6–8 Expected Value for Revenues from the Addition of One Ski Lift

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Decision Making Conditions

Uncertainty

• Limited information prevents estimation of outcome probabilities for alternatives associated with the problem and may force managers to rely on intuition, hunches, and “gut feelings”.

Maximax: the optimistic manager’s choice to maximize the maximum payoff

Maximin: the pessimistic manager’s choice to maximize the minimum payoff

Minimax: the manager’s choice to minimize maximum regret

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Exhibit 6–9 Payoff Matrix

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Exhibit 6–10 Regret Matrix

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Decision-Making Styles

1. Describe two decision-making styles.

2. Discuss the twelve decision-making biases.

3. Explain the managerial decision-making model.

4. Describe decision-making practices in the Arab context.

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Decision-Making Styles

Linear thinking style

• A person’s preference for using external data and facts and processing this information through rational, logical thinking.

Nonlinear thinking style

• A person’s preference for internal sources of information and processing this information with internal insights, feelings and hunches.

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Exhibit 6–11 Common Decision-Making Errors and Biases

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Decision-Making Biases and Errors

Heuristics

• Using “rules of thumb” to simplify decision making.

Overconfidence Bias

• Holding unrealistically positive views of oneself and one’s performance.

Immediate Gratification Bias

• Choosing alternatives that offer immediate rewards and avoid immediate costs.

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Decision-Making Biases and Errors (cont’d)

Anchoring Effect

• Fixating on initial information and ignoring subsequent information.

Selective Perception Bias

• Selecting, organizing and interpreting events based on the decision maker’s biased perceptions.

Confirmation Bias

• Seeking out information that reaffirms past choices and discounting contradictory information.

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Decision-Making Biases and Errors (cont’d)

Framing Bias

• Selecting and highlighting certain aspects of a situation while ignoring other aspects.

Availability Bias

• Losing decision-making objectivity by focusing on the most recent events.

Representation Bias

• Drawing analogies and seeing identical situations when none exist.

Randomness Bias

• Creating unfounded meaning out of random events.

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Decision-Making Biases and Errors (cont’d)

Sunk Costs Errors

• Forgetting that current actions cannot influence past events and relate only to future consequences.

Self-Serving Bias

• Taking quick credit for successes and blaming outside factors for failures.

Hindsight Bias

• Mistakenly believing that an event could have been predicted once the actual outcome is known (after-the-fact).

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Exhibit 6–12 Overview of Managerial Decision Making

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Practices Of Decision Making In The Arab World

The traditional Arab decision-making process has been impacted by several factors.

•A system of networking and collective decision making where the leader/manager consults with other group members to arrive at a decision that has the backing of the community.

•The concept of Shura is important. It is not restricted to the political arena; it has its manifestations in different social institutions, including the family and business organizations.

• The consultative style seems to be widespread in Arab organizations.

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Effective Decision Making In Today’s World

1. Explain how managers can make effective decisions in today’s world.

2. List the six characteristics of an effective decision-making process.

3. List the five habits of highly reliable organizations.

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Decision Making for Today’s World

Guidelines for making effective decisions:

1. Understand cultural differences.

In some cases, there is no best way to make decisions. The best way may depend on the values, attitudes, and beliefs that prevail in a specific culture.

2. Know when it’s time to stop.

Good decision makers are not afraid to change their minds. They do not become attached to one course of thinking.

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Decision Making for Today’s World (cont’d)

3.Use an effective decision-making process. This process has six characteristics:

It focuses on what is important.

It is logical and consistent.

It acknowledges both subjective and objective thinking and blends analytical with intuitive thinking.

It requires only as much information and analysis as is necessary to resolve a particular dilemma.

It encourages and guides the gathering of relevant information and informed opinion.

It is straightforward, reliable, easy to use, and flexible.

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Decision Making for Today’s World (cont’d)

4.Build an organization that can spot the unexpected and quickly adapt to the changed environment. Karl Weick calls such organizations highly reliable organizations (HROs) and says they share five habits:

Are not tricked by their success.

Defer to the experts on the front line.

Let unexpected circumstances provide the solution.

Embrace complexity.

Anticipate, but also recognize their limits.

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Terms to Know

decision

decision-making process

problem

decision criteria

rational decision making

bounded rationality

satisficing

escalation of commitment

intuitive decision making

structured problems

programmed decision

procedure

rule

policy

unstructured problems

nonprogrammed decisions

certainty

risk

uncertainty

directive style

analytic style

conceptual style

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Terms to Know (cont’d)

behavioral style

heuristics

business performance management (BPM) software

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