"Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision-making process produces a final choice called a decision. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore, decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational, and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions." (Wikipedia pg 1). The previous …showed first 75 words of 1088 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1088 total…hope this model serves its purpose for all who use it as well as for me in future endeavors. Works Cited: Bateman, T.S.; Snell, S.A. (2004). Management: The New Competitive Landscape (6th edition). New York: McGraw-Hill Lahti, R.K. (1996). Group Decision Making within Organizations: Can Models Help? Retrieved June 4, 2006, from http://workteams.unt.edu/reports/lahti.htm Decision Making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved June 4, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making