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Decision-making is one of the important management functions. It involves assessing all the available alternatives and making the appropriate best choice from available alternatives.
To determine: The Steps that are frequently involved in management’s decision-making process.
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The management decision-making process does not always follow a set of patterns because decisions are variable in their scope and importance. It is possible though to identify some commonly used steps in decision making, these steps are as follows:
- Identification of the problem and assigning responsibility.
- Determination of possible course of action and evaluation of the chosen course of action.
- Making a choice of possible course of action.
- Carrying out frequent reviews of the decisions taken.
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