Sales Manager Ali notices a steady decrease in sales representatives' performance over the last $3$ months and decides to solve this problem. Which of the following does not describe one of the steps of rational decision making process?

Group of answer choices

Conducting meetings to identify true cause of the problem

Withholding earned bonuses to punish low performance

Shortlisting and rank$-$ordering the decision criteria

Collecting benchmarking data to eliminate some potential culprits