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Decisions about handling exchanges and returns of gifts are programmed decisions.

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Electronic brainstorming may improve the number of ideas generated over traditional brainstorming groups.

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Decision making is less ______________ in Swedish organizations than in Philippine organizations.

When a manager must choose between two downsizing plans in which either 200 jobs will be saved for certain or 600 jobs might be saved, the manager will most likely be ______________ in approaching the problem.

Decision makers in ______________ and ______________ usually consider all alternatives before choosing.

Which of the following is false about decision support systems?

The rational model of decision making views the decision maker as knowing all alternatives and results.

The ______________ bias occurs when people recall recent, vivid events more easily than other events.

______________ increases between a decision maker and others as one moves from the authoritative ("A") approaches to decision making to the more group-based ("G") approaches.

Groups that have lost their ability to critically assess alternative solutions to a problem suffer from ______________.

Individuals make better decisions than groups with well-structured problems that have tightly coupled parts.

The approaches labeled with an "A" are ______________ in character; the decision maker ______________ makes the decision.

The ______________ is the tendency to recall and use information that is easily retrieved from memory.

People prefer to avoid risks in decisions involving ______________.

Assigning a member of a decision-making group the role of devil's advocate can help avoid groupthink.

The approaches labeled with a "C" are ______________ in character; the decision maker gets ______________ and ______________ before deciding.

The "G" approach to decision making tries to get consensus among group members.

Criticism of ideas is not allowed in brainstorming.

Which of the following is not true about decision making in organizations?

Groups do a better job than individuals with ______________ problems that have ______________ parts.