problems to be solved, opportunities for improvement through change
In the United States managers perceive most situations as what?
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sensing and intuition
After recognizing that a problem exists, what two primary modes do managers use to gather information to solve it?
100
ideas or possibilities that provide choices
What are alternatives?
100
either individuals or groups
Who will hold primary decision-making responsibility based on a culture's view of the relationships among people?
100
quick, slow, innovative, disruptive, managed from the top, managed by an individual, involve all levels within the organization
The implementation of a decision can be what?
200
Situation-accepting managers
What type of manager believes that they neither can nor should alter every situation that confronts them?
200
facts and use their five senses to gather information.
What do "sensors" rely on?
200
Because alternatives are based on a culture's underlying values.
Why do the types of alternatives most seriously considered vary?
200
the belief that ultimately a single person holds responsibility for a particular decision
What does the popular expression "the buck stops here" reflect?
200
ethical considerations
Some of the most difficult global business decisions involve what?
300
Problem-solving Manager
What type of manager believes that they both can and should change situations to their own benefit?
300
images
They gather ideas from the past and future in an attempt understand the situation.
What do intuitive people rely on?
300
Future oriented cultures
What type of culture are people from who generate more new alternatives?
300
their aversion to risk
The extent to which managers enjoy trying previously untried alternatives depend on what?
300
Global business decisions
What types of decisions are often even more difficult to make than domestic decisions because the basis of what is believed to be "right" and "wrong" is culturally determined.
400
external attribution
What is a belief that fate intervenes in the production process?
400
Cultures
What varies in the extent to which one or the other style of data gathering-of perceiving the world dominates.
400
past-oriented cultures
What type of culture are people from who tend to search for historical patterns on which to base alternatives?
400
Thinkers
Who generally processes data and makes decisions by questioning whether an alternative is correct or incorrect?
400
American business executives
What group is preoccupied chiefly with gain and not ethical laws?
500
no need to change but rather accept life as is.
Other cultures such as Indonesians, Malays, Thais, and most aboriginal peoples in North America tend to see situations as?
500
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung
Who suggested there are two primary modes of gathering information?
500
technology and training
A company's orientation toward change is often reflected in its approach to what?
500
Feelers
Who questions whether an alternative is good or bad?