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100
The first step in planning
What is to Set Goals?
100
These specify how a company will use resources, budgets, and people to accomplish specific goals
What are Tactical Plans?
100
The standards used to guide judgments and decisons
What are Decision Criteria?
100
When group members feel intense pressure to agree with each other
What is Groupthink?
100
This offers the benefits of intensified effort, persistence, direction, and creation of task strategies
What is Planning
200
This lists the specific steps for accomplishing a goal
What is an Action Plan?
200
Deciding how to allocate available money to best accomplish company goals
What is Budgeting?
200
Choosing a "good-enough" solution
What is Satisficing?
200
Emotional Reactions that can occur when disagreements become personal rather than professional
What is A-Type Conflict
200
Creating a false sense of certainty or impeding change and slowing needed adaptations
What are Pitfalls of Planning
300
Making small, simultaneous investments in many alternative plans
What is Options-Based Planning?
300
Day-to-day plans for producing or delivering the organization's products and services
What are Operational Plans?
300
Choosing the Optimal Solution
What is Maximizing?
300
A technique for generating a large number of alternative solutions
What is Brainstorming?
300
Assumes that action plans need to be continually tested, changed, and improved
What is Learning-Based Planning?
400
The determination to achieve a goal
What is Goal Commitment?
400
These make clear how the company will serve customers and position itself against competitors in the next 2 to 5 years
What are Strategic Plans?
400
Where each criterion is compared with a standard or ranked on its own merit
What is an Absolute Comparison?
400
This focuses on problem and issue related differences of opinion
What is C-Type Conflict?
400
A mission or vision, a statement of the company's reason for existing
What is a Purpose Statement?
500
S.M.A.R.T. goals are
What is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely?
500
A gap between a desired state and an existing state
What is a Problem?
500
Restricted by real-world constraints, incomplete and imperfect information when making decisions
What is Bounded Rationality?
500
A decision-making method in which an individual or subgroup is assigned the role of critic
What is Devil's Advocacy?
500
When someone has an idea, but waits to share it because someone else is already presenting an idea to the group
What is Production Blocking?