A decision implies that an individual has access to two or more alternatives. some decisiona may involve many alternatives, such as "Which country should we enter to begin our globalization effort?" In contrast, other decision may involve only two alternatives (i.e., "yes/no" decision), such as "Should i hire this individual to work in our department?" In fact, Henry Mintzberg studied the decision -making processes used by executives and found most decisions that executives faced were yes/no decisions (Mintzberg 1975)