Decisions that have been made many times in the past and for which managers have rules and guidelines about how to make similar decisions in the future are known as:
A) nonprogrammed decisions.
B) heuristic decisions.
C) programmed decisions.
D) intuitive decisions.
E) creative decisions.

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Programmed decision making is a routine, virtually automatic process. Programmed decisions are decisions that have been made so many times in the past that managers have developed rules or guidelines to be applied when certain situations inevitably occur.

Decisions That Have Been Made Many Times in the Past