Describing the steps from your research of how a decision is made or create a model to demonstrate your understanding of decision-making as a process. There are images of models for decision-making that you may also use. Ensure you cite the image. Include APA headings for an Introduction, Decision-Making Steps, Analysis, and Conclusion. Give examples and citations to describe the decision-making process. Explain why this is a reasonable approach, give examples in your analysis.
Length: 2-3 pages, not including title and reference page.
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Support your paper with the required reading articles for this week and two other researched sources.
Understanding decision-making as a process! This week, you will review articles and any additional research you uncover to evaluate how decisions are made. Everyone is constantly using decision-making for daily activities, although it is so automatic we rarely stop to think of it as a process. While all decisions have resulting actions, this is especially important in a business environment. As noted in your reading this week of the article Decision-Making at the First Management Level: The Interference of Organizational Culture, five organizations covered in a case study to reveal that first level managers are more rational. These managers tend to act more procedurally applying rules of the company and referring to the tools for decision-making. Consider in your learning this week how other levels of management approach decision-making. Decisions are made and confirmed all the way up and organizational chart to executive leaders and even Board of Directors in some organizations.
When reading your research and thinking about situations that you have observed or even been responsible for, determine the decision-making preparation as a process. A process is a deliberate step-by-step set of tasks or actions. Processes typically have procedures to follow as well in many functions and departments of an organization. However, the decision-making process is not well defined by many decision-makers. It may be more impulsive or irrational being based on emotion or feedback that is not necessarily gathered in a proper format to be reliable data. Consider the goals of a company or project and required outcomes when thinking about decision-making as a process. How would a decision-maker methodically approach a decision that will impact the future and success or failure of an organization?
Review the articles covering how decisions are made thinking of it as a process. Identify the steps being followed in the process or that are missing in the process per your research. Keep in mind that decisions are being made with a more deliberate approach for desired outcomes. Identifying decisions, gathering information, considering options, and additional steps for successful outcomes are covered in this week’s research.
