Deciding The Decisions : Decision Making

Decision-making in the workforce is a process of responsibilities used by upper management to implement, enforce rules, regulations, and maintain a successful environment. Decision-making implemented more effectively by making a plan, thinking it through, accepting more than one opinion and determining what is best. However, decision-making often utilized more effectively by opening doors of opportunities for a suggestion, question, discussion, and feedback. Although, more involvement helps improve understanding, utilize behavior skills and present opportunities for better communication. Everyday life consists of decision-making, the right decision may not always be applied, but ensure room for improvement and opportunity. Individuals approached decision-making in many different ways. As stated by (Jones, Graham, & Bateman, 2006) decision making is a procedure used to recognize a problem, weigh the alternatives and evaluate a solution in which, certain situations will require different approaches to become effective.

The decision-making process occurs at all levels of management. However, the top executive managers, middle level managers, and front line managers are responsible for guiding the decision making process within their healthcare organizations (Liebler & McConnell, 2008,p.148). CEO’s are responsible for guiding the actions and behaviors of their employees to collectively achieve the organization’s goals. The mission and vision statement are the foundation of what direction the healthcare agency is heading. The CEO and top level executives are responsible for developing code of ethics and code of conduct to align with accreditation, licensing, and federal and state laws.

Most decisions are made with analysis, but some are judgment calls not susceptible to analysis due to time or information constraints. Please write about a judgment call you’ve made recently that couldn’t be analyzed. It can be a big or small one, but should focus on a business issue. What was the situation, the alternatives you considered and evaluated, and your decision making process? Be sure to explain why you chose the alternative you did relative to others considered.

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Many times, time and perseverance is the key to the best result possible. But like Gary Collins said “We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. Therefore, decision making is in us relentlessly whether we want it or not.

A department head who does not display qualities of a good leadership is a recipe for disaster. Dealing with someone who is incompetent and takes credit for your job can be frustrating and exhausting at times. There are ways to deal with such situations at work and this paper deals how to manage

Deciding to DecideOn the front page of the local newspaper was an article entitled “Walk in the woods turns into a nightmare”. This was a sexual assault and threat of physical harm for a nine year old girl and her family. She tells of a family friend of 32 years who asked her parents to take her on a walk. In the teaching of Christ we have been taught to love our neighbors as ourselves but where in this scenario should one question that teaching. After much difficulty of a different ways a Christian will deal with a spiritual solutions; I must pray for the young man who committed this crime although not approving of the act. As he not pleaded guilty to knowing his actions were wrong but commented that the girl had a glint in her eye making him feel that she wanted him. He will be incarcerated for only 3

Concepts, practices, and effective decision-making strategies to promote patient safety and quality improvement begins with leadership to communicate expected standards of care to staff, promote active involvement in the quality improvement (QI) process, create a blame free environment in order to address near misses, errors, or adverse events, establish the use of Six Sigma as the benchmark for QI, and determine discrepancies between care provided and unit standards by root cause analysis (RCA) (Marquis & Huston, 2014). Childbirth by itself is an exhausting process and coupled with rooming-in, evaluations by staff and lactation consultants, and visitors, there have been increased numbers of infant falls during the hospital stay. These falls

Before you make the big decision is imperial to rational thinking, and understanding the problem. In order, to be an effective as a decision maker it is important to know what the key elements are that could affect the process such as being bias, prejudice, or unfair Metzgar, 2014). Therefore, in the process of making the right decision you need to have the ability to think in advance, as well as ensure you have the right information, and have an open minded to remain biases to clearly think through the decision According to Metzgar ( 2014) suggest that confirmed bias allows people to overlook significant information and see conflicting notions ,whereas, anchor causes allows an individual to weight one side of the information too profoundly, and prejudge with vigilant (Metzgar, 2014)..

In my personal opinion all person have their individuality to generate crucial decisions, simultaneously, each person should decide for their own future. I remember that my mother decides to study art and in this pretty moment, she is working on an education area. In my personal case, I become a nutritionist and I am working for community and society. In my own consider from time to time, fathers made the decision for their son’s university career without thinking of their feelings.

Getting to this point wasn’t easy, but we all made it. Some of us had more difficulties then others but with the help of our families, our teachers, and each other we all pushed through. During our tenure at Bright Futures Academy we have made and lost some friends on the path to success but we know that wins and losses are both the risks you must take to be great. As we move on to the next phase of our lives whether it’s post-secondary education, joining the armed forces, or seeking employment, there will be many more challenges for us to face. So it is important for us to continue to make smart decisions because we know that according to statistics we weren’t supposed to make it this far.

The rational decision-making model describes a series of steps that decision makers should consider if their goal is to maximize the quality of their outcome. In other words, if you want to make sure that you make the best choice, going through the formal steps of the rational decision-making model may make sense. The following are the steps taken to come to a rational decision: 1. Identify the problem, 2. Establish decision criteria, 3. Weigh decision criteria, 4. Generate alternatives, 5. Evaluate the alternative, 6. Choose the best alternative, 7. Implement the decision, 8. Evaluate the decision.

Organizational behavior helps managers to improve the organization in a good way. Decision making process is the one of the behavior in human organizational behavior. According to McShane and Von Glinow (2000), “decision making a conscious process of making choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs”. Decision making is a linear process and it includes six steps such as identifying the problems, gather and evaluate data, list and evaluate alternatives, select best action, implement the decision and getter feedback (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).

Generating potential solutions, evaluating the solutions, deciding, checking the decisions and communicating and implementing the decisions were the six areas covered during the quiz (Mind Tools, 2014). Decisions made at the strategic, routine, project/non-routine, or operational levels have different impacts (CSU-Global, 2014) and consequences if not managed properly. This paper will address each of the six areas evaluated, discuss the four levels that decisions are made and show my improvement plan to improve this competency.

Decision making can be described as a process of making a decision or decisions, based on choices made amongst two or more competing course of actions. The ‘Decision making’ also requires making a define choice between two or more alternatives course of actions that are available.