behavior

Now it's time to write a 1-page individual report on your virtual team activity for Week 04. Answer the questions below in a Word document to submit it to the Drop Box.

Think back on the decision-making process that you and your team members went through in deciding the case of "State vs. Scroggs." Do you feel any of you used a rational decision-making model? As you explain, you might recall that rational decision-making goes through six steps:

1. Define the problem. (Did Scroggs do it or not?)
2. Identify decision criteria, etc.
3. Weight the criteria.
4. Generate alternatives.
5. Rate each alternative on each criterion.
6. Compute the optimal decision.

If no one followed this rational decision-making model exactly, did anyone follow even one of the steps - or some half way? As you explain, you might consider that you could have been using what we call bounded rationality? (That's where you satisfice - that is, you don't follow such a rigorous model, but rather you seek solutions that are merely satisfactory.) In bounded rationality, you use some rationality, but you are not completely disciplined about it.