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Managers must make decisions whenever ever they perform any of the five management functions.
Why must Supervisors need to make so many decisions?
What is the span of managment?
What is Decision Making and what are the elements involved in the decision making process?
Types of Decision to be made are programmed and unprogrammed. Please give a specific example of each for your organization.
Explain the similarity of problem solving and decision making.
What are the six steps of decision making and give examples of each.
What are some approaches to decision making? Please give three examples but choose the best one for your organization and explain why you chose that approach.
Why is ethics important in decision-making?
What are some steps to ensure that companies and organizations are ethical in their decision making? Read pp. 76-78 to a better understanding.
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1) Supervisors make so many decisions because they are operating on a production-oriented , day-by-day, person-to-person basis.
2) Span of Management is the number of immediate employees a manager can supervise effectively.
3) Decision making- Considering and selecting a course of action from among alternatives. The elements in the decision making process are (1) a decision may not be needed,(2) decisions involve the future,(3) the process is a conscious one, and(4) there must be more than one alternative solution.
4) Programmed decision- Making out the employee schedule for the week Unprogrammed decision- One of our kids becomes sick at school and passes out
5) Both are related because they each identify a problem or a set of circumstances that must be addressed or provides a chance to improve a situation to reach a goal.
6) The six steps to decision making are (1) Define idea or problem to be acted on (2) Develop possible alternative solutions (3) Collect, interpret, and evaluate relevant information about the alternatives. (4) Select the preferred alternative. (5) Implement the decision. (6) Follow up, evaluate, and make changes if needed. A teacher calls in sick. We check our files for a sub. Teacher. We make the call to that specific teacher and ask them about coming in to cover the class. We confirm they are coming in and check the schedule the next day to make sure the class and the teacher were both covered.
7) Some approaches to decision making are the Myers-Biggs Type indicator , The Vroom-Yetton Model, Creative Problem Solving. Choosing a particular subject to teach the class, working on the schedule for the week, Coming up on a lunch menu for the week. I choose the Vroom-Yetton Model because it involves our staff in some of the decision making to help better run the daycare.
8) Ethics is important in decision making because it is the standard used to judge the rightness or wrongness of one person’s behavior towards another.
9) Some steps to ensure companies and organizations are ethical in their decision making are Codes of Conduct, Social goals, and Better monitoring.
120 Principles of Management: Chapter 3 Decision making: Michele Dennis
1. Why must supervisors need to make so many decisions? Supervisors are involved in directing employee’s behavior to achieve goals for the organization.
2. What is the span of management? The span of management is the number of immediate employees a manager can supervise effectively.
3. What is decision making and what are the elements involved in the decision making process? Decision making is considering and selecting a course of action from among alternatives.
The elements of decision making process:
a. A decision may not be needed.
b. Decisions involve the future.
c. Decision making is a conscious process
d. Decision making involves more than one alternative.
4. Examples of programmed and unprogrammed decisions.
Programmed example: How to schedule employees to match the teacher/child ratio.
Unprogrammed example: How to handled accidents on the playground.
5. Explain the similarity of problem solving and decision making. In both aspects you have to identify the problem and come up with a solution.
6. What are the six steps of decision making?
a. Define the idea or problem
b. Develop alternatives
c. Collect, interpret, and evaluate information about each alternative
d. Select preferred alternative
e. Implement the decision
f. Follow-up, evaluate, and make changes if needed
7. What are some approaches to decision making? Please give three examples but choose the best one for you organization and explain why you chose that approach.
a. Myers-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI): measures personality types
b. Vroom-Yetton Model: subordinates are involved in decision making and problem solving
c. Creative Problem Solving: developing creativity, brainstorming, The Crawford Slip Technique, Nominal grouping Technique(NGT).
I would choose the creative problem solving techniques because the business is new and creativity will be needed during this crucial time of trying to build a stable foundation.
8. Why is ethics so important in decision making? Supervisors should have a true concern for the well being of others.
9. What are some steps to ensure that companies and organization are ethical in their decision making? Providing mandatory training courses about ethics. Develop a code of ethics.
1) Two approches for good decision-making would be Myers-Briggs Type and Vroom-Fetton model. The Myers-Briggs would be the best approach for Helping Hands Free Clinic due to the fact that we will be dealing with people on a day to day basis, using our thinking and intuiton skills for our clients, doctors, and employees.
2) Ethics are important in decision-making because Supervisors, Managers, Leaders, etc. need to know how to go about making good judegements on what is right or wrong. They have to look at the inside and outside of the organization for the well-being of others.
3)The steps to ensure that companies and organizations are ethical in their decision-making are codes of conduct, social goals that boost business, and better monitoring.
1. Management decisions and the five management functions: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Leading, Controlling. Without decision making 1. Management decisions and the five management functions: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Leading, Controlling. Without decision making the entire management system would not exist.
Planning-objectives to seek, policies to establish rules to institute.
Organizing-choices to be made as to who gets what authority and how duties and responsibilities are grouped.
Staffing-decisions concerning employee selections, placements, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, health and safety.
Controlling-if performance does not conform to planned performance, decisions must be made to know what is best to bring them together.
Leading-this is deciding how to communicate and motivate employees.
Decision making is central to the supervisor's behavior toward achieving organization's goal, as well as the employee's themselves. They need to make decisions mor frequently and quickly, because they operate on a production-oriented, day-by-day, person-to-person basis. The decision involve a variety of activities.
2. Span of management is the number of immediate employees a manager can supervise effectively.
3. What is decision making and what are the elements involved in the decision making process? Decision making is considering and selecting a course of action from among alternatives.
1. Decision may not be needed in given situations by the supervisor, no matter what the supervisor's wishes are, higher managementis going to act in a certain way, so therefore supervisor's will need not make a decision.
2. Decisions involve the future. They feel sometimes if they had made a different decision things would not have happened the way it did. A supervisor has a place to prepare for today and tomorrow, a supervisor's decision making is aimed toward the future and always contains a means of uncertainty.
3. Decision making is a conscience process. Making a decision, the individual consciously becomes aware of what needs to be satisfied, seeks relevant behavior alternatives, evaluates them as a basis of choice.
4. Decision making involves more than one alternative, for a true decision to be made there must be at least two or more alternatives to choose from. Decision situations involve several alternatives with varying outcomes.
You must in some situation you may not have decision making authority, some you need to estimate expected outcomes. You can evaluate each outcome in terms of desirability, sometimes there are no desirable alternatives, then you need to decide between two undesirable outcomes.the entire management system would not exist.
Planning-objectives to seek, policies to establish rules to institute.
Organizing-choices to be made as to who gets what authority and how duties and responsibilities are grouped.
Staffing-decisions concerning employee selections, placements, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, health and safety.
Controlling-if performance does not conform to planned performance, decisions must be made to know what is best to bring them together.
Leading-this is deciding how to communicate and motivate employees.
Decision making is central to the supervisor's behavior toward achieving organization's goal, as well as the employee's themselves. They need to make decisions mor frequently and quickly, because they operate on a production-oriented, day-by-day, person-to-person basis. The decision involve a variety of activities.
2. Span of management is the number of immediate employees a manager can supervise effectively.
3. What is decision making and what are the elements involved in the decision making process? Decision making is considering and selecting a course of action from among alternatives.
1. Decision may not be needed in given situations by the supervisor, no matter what the supervisor's wishes are, higher managementis going to act in a certain way, so therefore supervisor's will need not make a decision.
2. Decisions involve the future. They feel sometimes if they had made a different decision things would not have happened the way it did. A supervisor has a place to prepare for today and tomorrow, a supervisor's decision making is aimed toward the future and always contains a means of uncertainty.
3. Decision making is a conscience process. Making a decision, the individual consciously becomes aware of what needs to be satisfied, seeks relevant behavior alternatives, evaluates them as a basis of choice.
4. Decision making involves more than one alternative, for a true decision to be made there must be at least two or more alternatives to choose from. Decision situations involve several alternatives with varying outcomes.
You must in some situation you may not have decision making authority, some you need to estimate expected outcomes. You can evaluate each outcome in terms of desirability, sometimes there are no desirable alternatives, then you need to decide between two undesirable outcomes.
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