Rational Approach For Vaccinating Case Study

When manager are faced with a situation with insufficient time for a thoughtful process, they use a rational decision making method to formulate a solution (Borkowski , 2016, pp. 289). The first part of the rational approach to decision making is to identify the problem. In this example, the decision environment is straightforward in nature, but problematic in terms of deciding who lives or dies. With only 100 doses of the vaccine and 200 individuals who wish to be vaccinated, deciding who will be vaccinated poses a difficult task. Now that the decision environment and problem have been identified, we must identify the objectives. The most ideal turnout of the vaccine distribution would be to have the greatest number of healthy living people

To efficiently address the vaccination situation, we must develop and evaluate alternative solutions. Two obvious and apparent solutions include vaccinating either of the extremes, that being all school children or all elderly people. Either one of these options poses a trade off to the other population. Ideally, there must be a reasonable means to distribute the vaccines. The first inkling would be to divide it equally among the populations, with 50 vaccines for each group. Although this method seems fair, it may not produce the most desirable outcome. Elderly folks are more receptive to disease prevention methods and can fully understand safety procedures compared to young school children. It would be more efficient to vaccinate a larger number of school children as they are unaware of preventative safety measures and are constantly interacting with other students. From these conclusions, I propose that vaccinating 80 school children and 20 older folks would be the best alternative. In this method, the remaining 20 school children who were not vaccinated would be shielded from the disease because of herd immunity. Herd immunity is a concept that involves having unvaccinated individuals in populations that are vaccinated, which would herein reduce the chance of infection (Anderson & May, 1985). This solution would then lead to the last step of the solution process, which is to implement the chosen alternative by setting up a station or clinic to distribute the vaccine to the appropriate