GWD-23-Q25-Q27

cindytim · 发表于 2010-1-30 12:20:29

A pressing need in the study of organizations is for more research into how an organization’s values (an organization’s guiding principles and beliefs as perceived by its members) affect managerial decision-making. Traditional theories have been based on a “rational model,” which focuses on the decision-maker and either ignores the organizational value climate or conveniently assumes that the organization’s values are consistent or clearly prioritized. In reality, however, decisions are shaped not only by a manager’s own values, but also by those of the corporate culture and of organizational superiors. A recent study found that managers’ most stressful decisions involved “value contention” (conflicts among any of these sets of values). Furthermore, different types of organizational value systems were associated with different frequencies of contending values as well as with different types of managerial response. Explicit corporate values, for example, produced a greater percentage of decisions that were stressful due to value contention. Hidden values (those that an organization practices but does not acknowledge or which a superior furtively pursues in opposition to the values of the organization) produced a lower level of value contention. Although explicit values created more value contention, they were nonetheless more likely to produce flexible, well-reasoned decisions. Conversely, managers perplexed by hidden values reported feeling unable to identify an appropriate range of options.
The passage suggests that which of the following has resulted from the influence of the rational model (line 8) ?

A. It has deflected researchers’ attention from a critical factor affecting managerial decision-making.
B. It has focused decision-making procedures on managers’ presumed ability to prioritize key corporate values.
C. It has diverted attention from the need for orientation of nonsupervisory employees to organizational values.
D. It has hampered communication between academic researchers and mangers of organizations.
E.It has produced theories that are practicable for analyzing decision-making processes only in relatively large organizations

我先b，答案是a

true · 发表于 2010-2-27 17:50:35

我也选A了。

没有nn出来说明下么？

b里提到reseacher，感觉文章重点不在researcher啊。
而在传统理论和现实上

Growingwqy · 发表于 2010-12-11 20:53:19

sdcar2010 · 发表于 2010-12-12 09:51:34

"Traditional theories have been based on a “rational model,” which focuses on the decision-maker." This means that the researchers using the rational model ended up focusing on the descion makers in their study. "[The rational model] either ignores the organizational value climate or conveniently assumes that the organization’s values are consistent or clearly prioritized." Therefore, the researcher using the model missed the other critical part: the organization's values.

That's what A says.

horsecc · 发表于 2011-8-2 14:56:30

"Traditional theories have been based on a “rational model,” which focuses on the decision-maker." This means that the researchers using the rational model ended up focusing on the descion makers in their study. "[The rational model] either ignores the organizational value climate or conveniently assumes that the organization’s values are consistent or clearly prioritized." Therefore, the researcher using the model missed the other critical part: the organization's values.

That's what A says.

-- by 会员 sdcar2010 (2010/12/12 9:51:34)

解释得太好了

wangxinan90 · 发表于 2011-8-11 01:00:56

嗯嗯说得很有道理学到了~谢谢

pennyrun · 发表于 2011-8-12 16:54:47

请问B错在哪里啊？感觉B就是对 which focuses onthe decision-maker and either ignores the organizational valueclimate or conveniently assumes thatthe organization’svalues are consistent or clearlyprioritized的改写啊。。而且A里面的a critical factor affecting managerial decision-making指的是什么呢？

mashengyi · 发表于 2011-10-23 16:36:47

critical有重要的决定性的意思

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