This solution identifies which option listed is not a decision-making technique.
Analyzing Decision Making Techniques
We need to evaluate each option to see if it serves as a structured method or tool for making decisions:
- Brainstorming: A technique used to generate a wide range of ideas or solutions to a problem quickly. It is often a preliminary step in the decision-making process.
- Expert Systems: These are computer-based systems designed to emulate the decision-making ability of a human expert in a specific field. They are tools used directly for decision support.
- SWOT Analysis: A framework used for evaluating Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats affecting a project or business venture. It directly informs strategic decision-making.
- Emotional Intelligence (EI): This refers to the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. While EI influences the *quality* and *effectiveness* of decisions by improving self-awareness and interpersonal skills, it is not a decision-making technique or framework itself.
Identifying the Non-Decision Making Technique
Based on the analysis:
- Brainstorming, Expert Systems, and SWOT Analysis are recognized methods or tools used within the decision-making process.
- Emotional Intelligence is a personal capability or skill set that impacts decision-making but is not a technique *for* making decisions.
Therefore, Emotional Intelligence is the option that is not a decision-making technique.
Important Questions from Analytical Decision Making
A college council is auditioning students for a cultural festival. They must satisfy the following criteria —
1. Student must know at least one dance form.2. Student must know to play at least one musical instrument.
3. Student must have good acting skills.
Which one of the following will the council definitely select?
A. Z is a Bharat Natyam dancer, a violinist but does not have any acting skills.
B. P plays football, guitar, has acted in road shows and is a classical dancer.
C. J is a contemporary dancer, a great actor and is planning to learn flute.
D. A plays sitar, is a hip-hop dancer and does not have any acting skills.
‘MPQO’ is related to ‘KNSQ’ in a certain way based on the English alphabetical order. In the same way, ‘DGHF’ is related to ‘BEJH’. To which of the following is ‘EINW’ related, following the same logic?
Select the triad in which the numbers are related in the same way as are the numbers of the given triads.
(NOTE: Operations should be performed on the whole numbers, without breaking down the numbers into its constituent digits. E.g., 13 – Operations on 13 such as adding/deleting/multiplying etc. to 13 can be performed. Breaking down 13 into 1 and 3 and then performing mathematical operations on 1 and 3 is not allowed.)
(11, 1, 10)
(13, 7, 90)
In a certain code language, ‘BIRD’ is written as ‘DKTF’ and ‘KITE’ is written as ‘MKVG’. How will ‘EAGLE’ be written in that language?
Family C has a total monthly income of Rs. 26,000 which includes a pension of Rs. 3,000 earned by th widowed gandmother. The married couple has one 3-year-old son. The family has no members who have a criminal case, they do not own a residential property and they have not received any other subsidy. They are living in a rented house for the past 6 years.
