You have finished your first year as the president of a medium-sized hospital and are faced with three issues currently affecting your organization. One is the problem of integrating the inventory management system with your food service system. A second involves the selection of a smaller hospital for acquisition. The third is whether you should continue your present level of operations in the Emergency Room. Your Finance Vice President believes it should be scaled back but the Medical Director feels it should not only be supported but expanded. 

1. Using the Contingency Decision Making Framework, explain each of the four decision-making approaches you might use to resolve these issues. 

2. Describe which decision-making model might be appropriate for each of the three issues and justify your choices. 

3. Discuss why the organizational decision approach is contingent on the organizational situation.