Purchase Solution

Effective decision-making

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Describe an effective decision-making process from a workplace. This process could have taken place within your department/team or at the organizational level. Focus on describing the process, rather than the actual decision or the results of that decision. Why was this decision-making process effective for your department/team or organization?

Identify at least two effects on organizational or team performance that result from this type of decision-making.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution briefly describes the process of effective decision-making. It also gives a personal view of an effective decisions made in an organization.

Solution Preview

Hello! I have entered the solution to your request. There are no references as this was asked from a personal view.
If you need any further assistance with this, please let me know.

Thanks!
Liz
OTA

Effective decisions are made when an effective decision-making process is followed. The process is as follows:
1) Identify what is causing the issue.
- You need to identify what is causing a problem that has arisen. A good example would be 'sales are down' - why is that happening?
- It could be the product is not popular anymore
- Customer service is not "doing their job"
- There is not enough product available.

2) Determine what the solution should be:
The problem is identified. Let's say it is because there is not enough product available and customer service cannot provide an instant order and need to back-order the ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Basics of corporate finance

These questions will test you on your knowledge of finance.

Organizational Behavior (OB)

The organizational behavior (OB) quiz will help you better understand organizational behavior through the lens of managers including workforce diversity.

Transformational Leadership

This quiz covers the topic of transformational leadership. Specifically, this quiz covers the theories proposed by James MacGregor Burns and Bernard Bass. Students familiar with transformational leadership should easily be able to answer the questions detailed below.

Situational Leadership

This quiz will help you better understand Situational Leadership and its theories.

Business Processes

This quiz is intended to help business students better understand business processes, including those related to manufacturing and marketing. The questions focus on terms used to describe business processes and marketing activities.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Decision Making

    215869 Explain the difference between managerial decision making and strategic decision making? Provide an example of a time when a manager's good decision was not an effective strategic decision.

  • Business: effective decision making

    524640 Business: effective decision making 1.How can a manager or a leader be effective in his actions and decision making? 2. Is there any basis for making a decision that would impact the efficiency and success for the business? Here you go.

  • problem solving and decision making

    Problem solving and decision making skills helps in analyzing the situation in an effective manner, resolve conflicts in a constructive manner and helps in avoiding dilemmas pertaining to complex decision making during the strategic formulation phase

  • Barriers to Effective Decision Making

    The solution discusses barriers to effective decision making.

  • Synergistic Decision Making Strategy

    This solution discerns the basic steps and processes involved in effective decision-making using the synergistic decision making strategy.

  • Decision making : explained

    The ability to control agenda can be used as an effective approach to define the performance of organization and work as an effective decision making tool.

  • Group Decision making and communicating

    562690 Decision making in Groups and Effective Communication Decision making in Groups and Effective Communication.Please provide notes, ideas, and research. Step 1 There are several techniques that are used for improving decision making in groups.

  • Decision Making Processes

    The managers always use decision making process and control methods together because in decision making, the causes behind the problem are identified and effective measures are adapted to control and rectify them by using the control strategies.

  • Importance of Decision Making in Information Systems Development

    More effective and consistent decisions can be garnered using decision-making in progress with assistance from DSS as the system can significantly save time for decision-makers as well as improve decision-making.

View More Related Solutions