Scenario D: Sunrise Health Systems has hired a consultant to help with organizational decision making. The consultant's first meeting is set up to explain to the managers of Sunrise Health Systems various models of organizational decision processes. Each of the managers seems to prefer one of the models over the others.The vice president of production declares that her people disagree on goals and have now formed groups to advocate for their own interests. Her managers are using

A. bounded rationality.
B. the coalition model.
C. the garbage can model.
D. the crisis model.
E. the incremental model.


Answer: B

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