DECISION MAKING

Decision making can be seen as a problem

solving process that generates a solution that is
considered to be a ideal, or at least acceptable.
 Characteristics of Decision Making
1.Objectives have to set first
2.Requirements must be graded and placed in order of
importance
3.We build alternate acts
4.The alternatives must be measured against all targets
5.Tentative decision is reviewed for more potential implications
6.Tentative decision is evaluated for more possible consequences
7.They are usually followed steps leading to a decision model
that could be used to assess an optimal production schedule
9 Characteristics of Good Decision

1. Decisions possibly impact others

2. Decisions are replicable
3. Decisions posters opportunity
4. Decisions include others
5. Decisions are executable
6. Decisions are systematic
7. Decisions are pragmatic
8. Decisions are accountable
9. Decisions involve self awareness
 Decision making techniques
Group Decision Making Individual Decision Making
Group Decision Making
also known as Collaborative
Decision Making is situation
faced when individuals collectively make a choice
from alternatives before them. The decision is then no
longer attributable to any single individual who is a
member of a group. This is because the result classes
such as social power. Community decisions often vary
from those taken by individuals.
 For certain cases, however, this approach
also have disadvantages. Certain methods of
decision making may be better in serious
emergencies or crisis situations
because emergency actions
can need to be taken
quicker, with less time
for deliberation.
 Individual Decision Making
In general, a person takes prompt decisions. When in
group, keeping any one person responsible for a wrong
decision is not easy. Human decision taking usually
saves time, resources, and energy as individuals make
timely and rational choices. Although taking group
decision takes a lot of time, money and energy.
Decision Making
Approaches
 Rational/Analytic
Approach
• Exemplified by a systematic decision making
• Looks for details and objectively explores how each
solution meets each success factor.
• Organized and decisions can be taken under the assumption
of the desired solutions except for major unforeseeable or
unpredictable incidents
 Intuitive Decision
Making Approach
• Relying on emotion and feelings
• Careful planning is not possible and desired
• People will point to a gut feeling or hunch as the
cause for a choice, reflecting that explanation is not
accessible through conscious thought.
 Random or Chance
Approach
• In this approach a decision is made on impulse without
thought.
• Flipping a coin or using a decision wheel would be
representative of employing this approach.
• It is sometimes considered a dependent style because this
approach cam promote denial of responsibility.