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  1. Find the sentences including the Subjective Infinitive Construc- tion and translate them.

  2. Answer the questions.

  1. Why does decision-making attract public management schol- ars?

  2. How are decisions classified as?

  3. What are political/technical decisions characterized by?

  4. Why are resource and cutback decisions called political ones?

  5. Which decisions are called technical ones?

  6. What are the decision criteria?

  7. What criteria are political/technical decisions based on?

  8. What factors are related to time?

  9. How much time do cutback/IT decisions require? Why?

  10. What are the criteria of decision participation?

  11. What are cutback/IT decisions characterized by in consider- ing decision participation?

  12. What is recognized as a major concern in decision-making?

  13. Is information quality lower with cutback decisions or IT decisions? Why?

  14. How much red tape do cutback/IT decisions experience? Why?

  1. Sum up the contents of the text.

  2. A) Fill in each gap with a suitable word from the box.

b) Look through Text 5 and say what is the main difference bet- ween decision-making practices in a public sector and a pri- vate sector organization.

market

private

compares

match

stresses

calls for

favor

cognitive

controversial

support

practices

are derived

Text 5

Public and ... sector decision making is studied with an experiment. The study ... decision making in a tax-supported general purpose gov- ernmental agency with that done by a business firm selling to a ..., us- ing a simulation to capture differences in the preferences and ... of mid-level managers working in the two sectors. The simulation ... par- ticipating managers to assess the risk and prospect of adopting budgets tailored to ... each sector. A cognitive culture that ... analysis, specula- tion, bargaining, or networking is employed to fashion a budget ap- propriate for a public and a private sector organization, each with a ... and a noncontroversial budget amount. The literature on public/private differences was consulted to make predictions, suggesting that public sector managers would ... bargaining and networking and private sec- tor managers would favor analysis and speculation. The cognitive style literature suggests that managers favor budgets constructed with an approach that is consistent with their preferred ... style and see less risk in the choice, except in a public setting where risk would be unaffect- ed. The study finds that private sector managers are more apt to ... budget decisions made with analysis and less likely to support them when bargaining is applied. Public sector managers are less likely to support budget decisions backed by analysis and more likely to sup- port those that ... from bargaining with agency people.