Business Decision Mapping

complex and require extensive thought and decision making processes. As choices become more complex, the influence of one’s personal values, ethics, and integrity become much more visible in the ultimate outcome, or decision. As a person and a leader, it is how these choices are handled that allows us to look ourselves in the mirror and feel good about what we have accomplished. “Integrity lies at the very heart of understanding what leadership is.” - Business professors Joseph Badaracco and…

Describe and explain a decision you will be making or one you recently made. Explain how each step in the decision-making process applied to your decision. Note: Be sure to address all steps. A decision that I had to make recently was the decision to take a test to promote at my work. After talking to several people and trying to prepare myself for the oral board, I discovered that one of the questions are decision-making processes as for problem-solving. I was advised to use google to look…

A buying center is a system that deals with the decision-making process, of an organization, in purchasing a certain product or service. The major topic discussed in the article, “Information Control and Influence in Emergent Buying Centers”, deals with the importance of information control and “how buying center members influence the supplier selection process” (Dawes, Dowling, and Lee 55). The author’s goal is to understand the contribution of information control, personal attributes, and firm…

In Book III of The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that an involuntary act occurs when the motivating factor prompting the action stems from the circumstances afflicting the individual who is obligated to make a decision, and does not occur at the exclusive discretion of the person. Supplementary to the aforementioned notion, Aristotle also suggests that voluntary actions are those where the incentive inspiring the act are derived from the discretion of the individual…

Introductions For most people making a decision can be very stressful and they find themselves overwhelmed and stressed out throughout their decision process. Making a decision for most people can be a long and overthought process, filled with indecisiveness. In the book Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip and Dan Heath, teaches you how to make decisions that you can live with and the current mistakes that we make today in our current decision process, which they call…

author observed collaborative decision-making for one of the issues presented. For instance, the IC teams made the ICC aware of the increase rate of the Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) within the hospital. They came up with evidence-based practices that prove if using this special wipe to clean the catheter daily will decrease the rate of CAUTI. After discussing the benefits and the costs to implement the presented solution, a collaborative decision-making was done by using…

generate unnecessary conflict in work place. Thus, it is important for me to understand and accept personality differences to avoid unnecessary conflicts in the work place. The topic about decision-making process is also important to me. The major takeaway from the topic is recognizing the pitfalls occurred in the decision-making process. During the lecture, the tragedy explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger is used to tell how over-optimism and groupthink caused by intangible pressure would…

to 18,000 per period the rational decision-making model would be a good decision-making model to use. According to Nahavandi, Denhardt, and Denhardt (2015), the rational decision-making uses five phases for decision making which are performed deliberately and consciously, relying on the rationality of the decision maker’s thoughts and behaviors (p. 245). In the case of BSE Veterinary Services, many aspects will need to be taken into account when making a decision on what approach would be best…

Leadership and Decision Making Decisions are the cornerstone to a great leader and if you are an indecisive person you will never be able to lead effectively. “When we think of what makes someone a great leader, one characteristic that comes to mind is decisiveness. We do not envision successful leaders standing around appearing unclear and uncertain” (Kase, 2010). Recently my own decision making skills were determined through an assessment test. My score reflected that I am in the category…

on the decisions that I make on a daily basis, as well as the decisions I will have to make when I enter the business world. Even though I don’t notice it, my mind goes through different processes every time I make a decision. I also subconsciously take myself through a processing model every time I need to accomplish something. On a more personal level, I set critical success factors, or goals, for myself and key performance indicators to help achieve those goals. Once I enter the business…