Jennifer has to decide which of two job offers she is going to choose. She begins her process by listing the key criteria she is looking for in a job including salary level, location, promotional opportunities, and so on. She then takes each job offer letter and carefully goes through each line assessing the offer in relationship to the criteria she has established. Jennifer is using which of decision-making model to choose her job?

a. the rational decision-making model

b. the creative decision-making model

c. the intuitive decision-making model

d. the programmed decision-making model

a. the rational decision making-model

Explanation:

The rational decision making model is a decison making model which seek the best choice from among several alternatives. It is a design which identifies problems and then critically examine it, with the aim of coming up with the best alternative.

When a business firm or an individual is faced with a daunting task of having to choose among alternatives as in the case above, then rational decision making model comes into play.

There are several models associated with this decision type, which are; problems identification and definition, list all the decision criteria, weigh the criteria, bring up all the alternatives, evaluate the alternatives and choose the best from the alternatives.

There are however limitations to rational decision making model, which are; decision makers not having complete information on the problems to be solved. Also, many goals might be proposed to be achieve in a decision making scenario which might be difficult to achieve.