SHORTCOMINGS OF THE OPERATIONS RESEARCH APPROACH
The use of quantitative methods is appreciated to improve managerial decision-making. However, besides certain opportunities OR approach has not been without its shortcomings. The main reasons for its failure are due to unawareness on the part of decision-makers about their own role, as well as the avoidance of behavioural/organizational issues while constructing a decision model. A few opportunities and shortcomings of the OR approach are listed below
Opportunities
The OR approach of problem solving facilitates.
• decision-maker to define explicitly his/her objectives, assumptions and constraints.
• decision-maker to identify variables that might influence decisions.