Decision-Making Model Paper

“Decision-Making Model Paper”

We all make decisions of varying importance every day, so the idea that decision making can be a rather sophisticated art may at first seem strange. However, studies have shown that most people are much poorer at decision making than they think. An understanding of what decision making involves, together with a few effective techniques, will help produce better decisions.

Problem/Situation

Hodges Bend Middle School decided to have a Career Day for the 8th grade students, parents, faculty and staff. In order to have a successful career day we had to organize committees which included principals, teachers and parents. The committees consisted of a chairperson, hospitality, and recruitment of speakers, budget committee and selection of sponsors. We encountered several problems because of lack of communication and failure of the committees to do their jobs effectively. The recruitment team neglected to secure speakers in a timely manner, didn’t let them know time, place, date of the event and didn’t let the other team members know what they needed to do to help the team have speakers for the event, while complaining to others who had no desire to work on the event. As a result of the confusion among some of the member stop assisting with the program and dropped out, while others tried to fill in the gaps that were left by the none working members. The coordinator was put into the position of making some decision about how to make the team cohesive in a two-week period of time and still have a productive event.

Critical Thinking

Paul, Binker, Jensen, and Kreklau (1990) have developed