As Harold carried his lunch tray passed Chuck, the school bully, Chuck stuck his foot into the aisle and attempted to trip Harold. Harold expected such an obstruction. He sidestepped around Chuck’s leg saying, “Excuse me, Chuck, my fault entirely.” Harold then continued back to his table and began eating his lunch. Chuck felt offended that Harold had not tripped and fallen on his food, so he marched back to Harold’s table to put him in his place. Dipping his finger into Harold’s school lunch, Chuck said, “What are you eating, puke?” Harold replied nervously, “Yes, well, I think that’s what they serve here. Only the best for us students, right? Anyway, you’re welcome to it.” Chuck sneered and stuck his finger into Harold’s chest, “I don’t want any of your puke, Puke. Next time you fall when I trip you.” He removed his finger from Harold’s chest, grabbed Harold’s cupcake from off of his lunch tray, and walked back to his table. “Good bye, Chuck. It’s always a pleasure seeing you.” He then released a sigh and ate around the fingerprint that Chuck had left in his casserole. Which type of irony is used?

Where do Harry and Helen live? 

What animals are gathering around Harry at the beginning of the story?

Compare and contrast the Rationale Decision Making Model and the Bounded Rationality Model (also called the Normative Model). How are they different? Which one is more realistic for organizational decision-making and why?

Imagine that in a human population in an isolated island it was determined that four pairs of alleles with no environmental effect determine height. Each dominant allele contributes to 3 inches. The base of height is 5 feet. What is the range of height in this island population?

  Intuition is made up of ____________.

Which of the following refers to people’s tendency to make different decisions based on how the problem or solution is presented? (Here’s a hint: politicians do this all the time in order to make their argument sound more appealing.)

The Garbage Can Model of decision making states that managers often don’t know what they want until they have some idea of what they can get.

The vice president of marketing at Company XYZ wants his employees to learn and utilize a new type of software that will facilitate virtual teaming. Although the employees in the marketing department work in project teams, they have never had any difficulty getting their work done by meeting in the traditional face-to-face manner. Why does this illustrate the Garbage Can Model of decision-making?

Allison working in the Production Department. She has data from her team indicating that they will need to produce 30,000 units during the next quarter. The data is trustworthy, but “just to be on the safe side” Allison decides to make 35,000 units. Allison has fallen victim to which trap?