Disney Is Said To Renew Fox Talks As Murdoch Dance Continues

The article’s title is ‘Disney is Said to Renew Fox Talks as Murdoch Dance Continues’. Walt Disney Co. renewed discussions over acquiring a significant part of 21st. Century Fox Inc.’s media assets. Disney takes part in companies including Comcast Corp. looking to buy a piece of the Murdoch family’s empire which aims to make a decision on if to do a deal by the end of 2017. The Murdochs include Rupert Murdoch who 86 years old, and his sons, James and Lachlan, Fox’s executive chairman. They are considering a sale as the market values the group behind more slowly growing peers. A deal would change the entertainment landscape by putting channels, for example, FX and rights to characters such as the X-Men into Disney’s hands. However, the government

Decision making is the process of making choices among alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs (McShane & Glinow, 2015). In this case, the Walt Disney Co. has a decision making to acquire a significant part of 21st. Century Fox Inc.’s media assets. In the extreme form of decision making, this calculative view of decision making represents the rational choice paradigm that the view in decision making that people should-and typically do-use logic and all available information to choose the alternative with the highest value (McShane & Glinow, 2015). Disney need to consider two disadvantageous factors which would affect the deal. First, James Murdoch, the Fox’s executive chairman who has had to battle a series of scandals at the company, including sexual harassment allegations at the top of Fox News (Sakoui & Palmeri, 2017). Second, the government has said the merger of big TV distributor and producer would affect the industry, and would stop the deal. For the rational choice paradigm, decision makers should follow the systematic process, the rational choice decision-making process: first step is identifying problem or opportunity; second, choosing the best decision process; third, discovering or developing possible choices; fourth, selecting the choice with the highest value; fifth, implementing the selected choice; and sixth, evaluating the selected choice (McShane & Glinow, 2015). In this case, Disney identified the opportunity which can get more market share by acquiring a significant part of 21st. Century Fox Inc.’s media assets. In fact, Disney has already proceeded the end of the rational choice decision-making process, evaluating the selected choice. Because it renewed discussions over this deal. Because it is an organizational decision making, there is not any emotions that can affect Disney making decision. Creativity is an important component of decision making,