(2) I want to draw your attention to Page SG1-6, 4.b. People Listen to each other, 4.e. Officers and Chiefs get out and about, 4.f Personal issues are addressed, 5.b Relationships with Seniors (most notably the paragraph on morning meetings), and Page SG2-4 Responsibility, Authority, and Accountability (RAA). There are several workshop problems in Section 4 on decision making (4-1-1).
In “The Choice Explosion” by David Brooks, the author describes the state of decision-making skills and how they have affected life in recent years, specifically in America. Brooks begins with a description of a social psychology experiment on Japanese and American college students and the decisions they wanted to make for themselves. The results showed that the American students wanted to decide in four times more areas than the Japanese students. Brooks then makes the conclusion that this is the result of American individualism; this individualism has provided more choice and control over everyday life. However, the author also points out that arriving at good outcomes is no easy task, even for qualified decision makers.
Case Study #1 Andrew Gonzalez Saint Leo University MGT 417 Case Study #1 The Meridian water pump case is about a small company that produces small water pumps. There was a meeting held within the department managers that pertained to making medium size pumps for the next 6months. Arguments were recorded between the marketing and sales manager, production manager, HR manager and finance manager. It seems to me that all were pointing the finger at one another on why things couldn’t get done and each department was slowing the other down by not efficiently running their departments.
A decision is the thought process of choosing between two or more outcomes that may or may not have a great impact. When thoroughly pondered, living life is fundamentally based on making the best decisions. Whether or not they are great or small decision making is critical. Often times, it is the smallest decisions one can make that impact the even bigger decisions later to come. Starting from the time people wake up in the morning, the will be surrounded by the most basic decisions until they go to sleep that night.
Brief summary British Columbia box limited Vancouver factory was headed by the plant manager Mr.PaulFlynn. BCB also had sister plants in Burnaby, Vitoria and Toronto .BCB was a part of large international company which specialized in manufacturing of packaging materials . Paul was looking for new machinery in early 2002 as the current machine was 18 years old and it demanded huge investments in terms of maintenance. He also wanted to expand his business and hence was looking for a machine with higher productivity.