Complete Question:
Which of the following is true of managerial decision making?
Group of answer choices.
A. Most managerial decisions lack structure.
B. Managerial decisions are always free of risks.
C. Managerial decisions are taken under conditions of perfect certainty.
D. Managers show consistency in their decisions in response to novel problems.
E. A manager’s decisions have the characteristics of programmed decision
Answer:
A. Management decisions typically lack structure.
Explanation:
The management of an organization or business firm are typically involved in taking up leadership roles and as such are expected to build a strong relationship between their employees by creating a fair ground for effective communication and sharing of resources and information.
A decision-making process can be defined as a cognitive process which typically involves an individual or business selecting the best option, course of action, or belief among several alternatives, so as to meet a particular need or accomplish a goal. Thus, it typically involves the process of gathering informations, accessing and weighing the informations with their alternatives and choosing the best option.
Generally, management decisions are considered to typically lack structure because most problems are novel and as such would require different procedures to follow in proffering solutions. Thus, most management decisions are non-programmed decisions making them to lack structure i.e being unstructured.
Answer:
Nathan's contention is wrong.
Explanation:
Storage of money at home involves the opportunity cost of losing out on income that would've been generated had the same money been invested elsewhere or deposited with a bank.
Secondly, money stored at home is vulnerable to theft and other forms of risks.
Thirdly, stored money at home does not contribute to any economic benefit since such money is out of circular flow of money in the economy. So it yields no return.
Thus, Nathan's contention of stored money at home being costless is wrong.
Answer:
A) 40
Explanation:
The chart is not very clear, but the information included is:
- it takes four hours to produce one shirt
- it takes two hours to produce one pair of socks
If the total number of labor hours is 80, then the maximum number of socks produced will = 80 hours / 2 hours per pair of socks = 40 pairs of socks
The total number of shirts produced would be 20.
Answer:
Explanation:
a) Confidence index=Yield on top-rated corporate bonds/ Yield on intermediate-grade corporate bonds
This year=9.3%/11.8%=0.788
Last Year=9.8%/11.3%=0.8673
b) From the calculations we can see that confidence index is decreasing from 0.8673 to 0.788.
