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Garbage-Can Decision Making in Organizations

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To what extent does the garbage can model accurately describe the decision-making process in organizations?

Provide an example of its use in the global workplace.

Describe at least two effects that this type of decision-making can have on organizational performance.

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This addresses the Garbage-Can Model and how it is used in organizations in decision-making. It is approximately 500 words, two websites are cites for more information.

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Garbage Can Model of Decision Making
To what extent does the garbage can model accurately describe the decision-making process in organizations?
Garbage-can model is described as problems, solutions, participants, and choice opportunities getting mixed together in a garbage-can. With that knowledge, it only accurately describes the decision-making process in the beginning. Any decision-making in an organization has to include what the problems are, participants to figure out if those are legitimate problems and to work on solutions, and choice opportunities have to be figured out. In the "Garbage-Can," problems and solutions are mixed in the can but may really be unrelated. Participants might spend forever trying to figure out what solutions go with what problems. The solutions ...

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