自考英语二unit_1Text Appt.ppt

因此，作决策的过程对管理人员来说至关重要。管理者所做的每件事几乎都与决策有关， 事实上，有些人认为管理过程就是作决策。尽管管理者不能预测未来，但他们所作的许多决策 都要求他们考虑将来可能发生的事情。通常情况下，管理者必须对未来情况作出最佳估测，并且 努力要使偶然事件尽可能少地发生，但是，由于不确定的因素一直存在，所以，决策总是与风险 为伴。有时候，拙劣决策的后果并不严重，但在另外一些时候则是非常严重了。 If there is no choice, there is no decision to be made. Decision making is the process of choosing, and many decisions have a broad range of choice. For example, a student may be able to choose among a number of different courses in order to implement the decision to obtain a college degree. 4 For managers, every decision has constraints based on policies, procedures, laws, precedents, and the like. These constraints exist at all levels of the organization. 选择是指从多个可能性中挑选的机会。如果没有选择，就毋须作决策。作决策就是挑选的过程， 许多决策的选择范围很广。例如，一个学生为了获得学位，他可能会从许多不同的课程中选择 从而作出决策。对管理者来说，每项决策都受到基于政策、程序、法律、惯例等等因素的制约， 这些制约存在于各个层次的机构中。 Alternatives are the possible courses of action from which choices can be made. 5For example, managers sometimes treat problems in an either/or fashion; this is their way of simplifying complex problems. But the tendency to simplify blinds them to other alternatives. 抉择是从中可以作出选择的可能的行动步骤。假如没有可供选择的可能性，这就意味着没有 做过对问题进行彻底调查的工作。例如，管理者有时用两者择一的方式来处理问题，即他们简化 复杂问题的手法。但是，这种简化的倾向使他们看不到其他可供选择的可能性。 At the managerial level, decision making includes limiting alternatives as well as identifying them, and the range is from highly limited to practically unlimited . 在管理层，作决策包括了限定和鉴别可供选择的可能性，其限定范围从非常有限到基本无限。 Decision makers must have some way of determining which of several alternatives is best--that is, which contributes the most to the achievement of organizational goals. An organizational goal is an end or a state of affairs the organization seeks to reach. Because individuals (and organizations) frequently have different ideas about how to attain the goals, the best choice may depend on who makes the decision. Frequently, departments or units within an organization make decisions that are good for them individually but that are less than optimal for the larger