A committee of employees developed a process whereby they would choose a new office-cleaning firm from the six companies that tendered proposals for the contract.The process involved carefully assessing each firm on the four factors that were most important (e.g.cost), weighting the importance of each factor and then choosing the firm with the highest score.This decision-making activity potentially minimizes problems associated with:
A)production blocking.
B)constructive conflict.
C)satisficing.
D)problem identification.
E)this process has no value in decision making and is discouraged in the textbook.

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The committee's process of carefully assessing each firm on the four most important factors, weighting their importance, and choosing the firm with the highest score is an example of rational decision-making that attempts to maximize the outcome while minimizing the potential problems associated with satisficing, which is settling for a decision that is satisfactory but not necessarily the best.

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