The Bazerman, M. H. D. A. Model

Register to read the introduction… Next enter the determining factors that you are interested in along the top. You then need to decide the weight for each factor. The example shows safety risk as a 4 and management difficulty as a 2. This means that safety is twice as important a factor as management difficulty. The final entries are for your opinion(scale of 1-10) of what your opinion is of how a given factor affects a given alternative. Remember that negative factors are opposite. This means that for a negative factor such as safety risk, high numbers mean low risk. For a positive factor such as stability, high numbers mean high stability. The winner is the highest number in the totals column. You still may have to decide between 2 or more alternatives whose totals are the same or very close. However, you will have eliminated a whole lot of less desirable alternatives” …show more content…
H., & Moore, D. A. model is more business friendly. In the decision making matrix, it appears to be too simple. It seems like there is a lot of room for mistakes. It is a “quick and dirty” type of decision-making tool. There’s nothing systematic about its process. However, if you want to make a quick decision, the matrix is the way to go. You have to understand that there is a lot of risks involved. Depending on the type and the level of importance of the decision, it could benefit the manager.

References
BusinesDictionary.com,2013.Define:Decision Making. Retrieved September 08, 2013, from, http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/decision-making.html
Planningskill.com,2013.Define:Reflective decision making. Retrieved September 08, 2013, from, http://www.planningskills.com/glossary/211.php Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2013). Judgment in managerial decision making (8th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

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