Decision Making in the Work Place
As a member of the United States Air Force for almost twenty years, there are decisions that are made every day at different levels that affect the outcome of how we operate. Decision making is the process of choosing the best among the available alternatives with a purpose under a set of circumstances, and also identified as the core of planning (Rao, 2010). There are many types of decisions managers at different levels can make that have effects on how a squadron will operate in the United States Air Force. I have observed many decisions being made over my time in the Air Force, some of the decisions made included tactical, strategic, and operational.
Strategic decisions affect the entire organization. …show more content…
Tactical decisions have a limited impact and tend to be more changeable while helping implement the strategy. Tactical decisions in the our work place would be having the member who fails their physical fitness test, perform mandatory training exercises three times a week until they pass. The decision to have them perform the training has limited impact on the overall mission of the unit, would be made by our mid-level managers, and deals with the real time actions of the member failing the test. Tactical decisions are also used in the unit throughout the day to provide changes to the daily operational mission. When a plans are laid out and given to the members to execute, sometimes something of greater importance surfaces, causing a reaction that needs attention, the members are diverted to address this need. The examples used for tactical decisions develop plans, and managing workflows while being made by mid-level …show more content…
Operational decisions are selected to the operational activities which are routine and relate to the day to day operations (Rao, 2010). We have a meeting every morning prior to starting the day with the members of management in our organization. The meeting consists of briefing and making decisions to which aircraft we will fly that particular day. All aircraft have inspections and we go over which ones are due and will be accomplished throughout the day and week to not interrupt the flying operations that we are committed to execute for training. Additionally, the number of people who are scheduled to be off is discussed so the work load of a section can be planned out correctly. These two examples would be operational based on the short term of the organization, and are based on facts regarding how one is able to operate during the
As a member of the United States Air Force for almost twenty years, there are decisions that are made every day at different levels that affect the outcome of how we operate. Decision making is the process of choosing the best among the available alternatives with a purpose under a set of circumstances, and also identified as the core of planning (Rao, 2010). There are many types of decisions managers at different levels can make that have effects on how a squadron will operate in the United States Air Force. I have observed many decisions being made over my time in the Air Force, some of the decisions made included tactical, strategic, and operational.
Strategic decisions affect the entire organization. …show more content…
Tactical decisions have a limited impact and tend to be more changeable while helping implement the strategy. Tactical decisions in the our work place would be having the member who fails their physical fitness test, perform mandatory training exercises three times a week until they pass. The decision to have them perform the training has limited impact on the overall mission of the unit, would be made by our mid-level managers, and deals with the real time actions of the member failing the test. Tactical decisions are also used in the unit throughout the day to provide changes to the daily operational mission. When a plans are laid out and given to the members to execute, sometimes something of greater importance surfaces, causing a reaction that needs attention, the members are diverted to address this need. The examples used for tactical decisions develop plans, and managing workflows while being made by mid-level …show more content…
Operational decisions are selected to the operational activities which are routine and relate to the day to day operations (Rao, 2010). We have a meeting every morning prior to starting the day with the members of management in our organization. The meeting consists of briefing and making decisions to which aircraft we will fly that particular day. All aircraft have inspections and we go over which ones are due and will be accomplished throughout the day and week to not interrupt the flying operations that we are committed to execute for training. Additionally, the number of people who are scheduled to be off is discussed so the work load of a section can be planned out correctly. These two examples would be operational based on the short term of the organization, and are based on facts regarding how one is able to operate during the