Skip to Main Content
Fundamentals of Management, 11/e
book

Fundamentals of Management, 11/e

by Stephen P. Robbins, Mary A. Coulter, David A. De Cenzo
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
107h 32m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Fundamentals of Management, 11/e

How Are Problems, Types of Decisions, and Organizational Level Integrated?

Exhibit 4–8 describes the relationship among types of problems, types of decisions, and level in the organization. Structured problems? Use programmed decision making. Unstructured problems? Use nonprogrammed decision making. Lower-level managers essentially confront familiar and repetitive problems so they most typically rely on programmed decisions such as standard operating procedures. However, as managers move up the organizational hierarchy, the problems they confront are likely to become less structured. Why? Because lower-level managers handle the routine decisions themselves and only pass upward decisions that they find unique or difficult. Similarly, managers ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

SHRM Society for Human Resource Management Complete Study Guide

SHRM Society for Human Resource Management Complete Study Guide

Sandra M. Reed
Management, 13e

Management, 13e

Stephen P. Robbins, Mary Coulter
Management, 11th Edition

Management, 11th Edition

John R. Schermerhorn Jr.
Management, 12th Edition

Management, 12th Edition

John R. Schermerhorn Jr.

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780135175156