Robert landau is considering three job offers. In trying to decide which to accept, Robert has concluded that three objectives are important in this decision.
First of course is to maximize disposable income - the amount left after paying for housing utilities, taxes and other necessities.
Second Robert likes cold weather and enjoy winter sports.
Third objective relates to quality of community. Being single rebort would like to live in a city with a lot of activities and a large population of single professionals.
Robert has done his homework on the locations of the three job offers. He has detrmined the type of apartment he could get, determining disposable income. He has decided to use annual snowfall to determine the value of his second objective.
For his third objective, Robert found a recent magazine survey of large cities that score those cities as places for single professionals to live.
Although the survey is not perfect from robert's point of view, all three of the cities where has offers are included in survey.
The disposal income objective is most important, twice as important as each of the other two criteria. The second and third criteria are equally important.
Here is summary of each of the locations:
1. ZDR technology in Kingman AZ: Disposable income estimate : $ 1600 /month, snowfall average 320 cm; magazine score 50
2. Minne Digital in Minneopolis MN: Disposable income estimate : $ 1300 to 1500/month, snowfall average 400 cm; magazine score 75
3. Wharf consulting in San Fransisco CA: Disposable income estimate $1200/month snowfall average: negligible; Magazine score 95
Questions:
a. What is Robert's problem or opportunity in this situation?
b. What is the overall objective for Robert's decision? What are the fundamental objectives that support the overall objective?
c. What are Robert's alternatives for this decision situation?