Identify whether each example in below is a programmed or nonprogrammed decision.
1. You have a budget of $50,000, and you want to remodel your kitchen. Fortunately, you know a number of different contractors, but all of them have different ideas about the best way to remodel a kitchen. Your decision about which contractor to use is a .
2. Last spring, your spouse surprised you with a puppy (named Loki after the Norse god of mischief). Fortunately, the puppy gets along well with your 17 cats. The decision you make every day about whether to feed Loki is a .
3. An accounting firm is deciding whether to renew the lease at its current building or relocate to one located several blocks away. This requires considering whether the current prestigious address is worth paying higher rent, the inconvenience and expense of moving the office, and a variety of other factors. This is a _.
4. Every morning when you walk into Starbucks, you order the same thing: a venti green tea Frappuccino with extra whipped cream. You can't drink anything else at Starbucks because you don't like hot beverages, coffee, or black tea, and you like your beverages tall and creamy. Your decision about what to order at Starbucks today is a ____.

Programmed decisions are decisions for which the decision maker has developed certain set of guiding rules for, over time, as a result of repetition. Here the results can be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy, because the situations surrounding the circumstances are well known. In our example, feeding the puppy overtime has become routine, hence it is a programmed decision, also, the choice of tea at Starbucks is a programmed decision because you know what to expect and that is because you have tried the other varieties and come to a conclusion on the choices to be made which is well understood.

On the contrary, a nonprogrammed or nonroutine decision is a decision that is based on circumstances that are not entirely predictable to a reasonable extent. The structure of the circumstances surrounding the decision to be made is not well understood. There are so many "what ifs". These decisions can be said to be novel, and they are not routine. In our example, the choice of the constructor to use for your kitchen design and the decision by the accounting firm on whether to renew the lease or relocate are nonprogrammed because these decisions are not everyday decisions and the decision makers are not certain what the outcomes will be depending on the choices they make, if they will eventually regret it or not.