Some organizations are still weighing up a wide range of options before requiring employees to return to the office. Considering this context, the leaders of these organizations are making bounded rational decisions.

Anthony, the president of a boutique accounting firm, wants to provide his staff with the opportunity to shift from a five-day work week to a four-day work week, but he does not know how to structure the week. He wants to collaborate with his staff to agree on a single solution. He wants the staff to be committed to these new arrangements and to be willing to implement them. What group decision-making technique could Anthony use to develop group agreement on the solution to this problem?

Anthony is a new employee at a technology firm. He produces great ideas, as he is eager to contribute to his new organization. His manager encourages him and says they are supportive of his ideas, as well. Unfortunately, though, his manager fails to implement any of his ideas. This scenario illustrates the point that ______ is needed, but it is useless if it is not implemented.

Dillon manages a tax preparation firm. He has served as the manager for the last eight years and oversees a new team of tax professionals each tax season, January to April. Starting each fall, he must hire seven tax professionals for the next season. Dillon’s problem can be classified as a nonprogrammed decision.

In buying a house, a “must” criterion could be a price of under $350,000.

According to your reading, what is a major cause for why decisions get made, but they do not get implemented?

Considering the relationship between creativity and innovation, the “thinking outside the box” phenomenon refers to:

Considering the creative process, the “Aha, now I get it!” phenomenon refers to the evaluation stage.

Kushagra’s student organization, consisting of a few first-year students and mostly, third- and fourth-year students, is trying to determine where to hold its next restaurant fundraiser (i.e., a percentage of the proceeds raised from the meal are donated back to the cause that hosted the meal). After generating and evaluating alternatives, the options are Restaurant A, Restaurant B, Restaurant C, and Restaurant D. This list of options includes a couple of places where three of the fourth-year students are employed on a part-time basis. What group decision-making technique could Kushagra’s team use to take a secret vote and decide on the restaurant fundraiser?

Maximizers prefer to quickly choose the option that fills the minimum requirement.