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Can you help me explain how the evaluation could be used to for decision-making in your organization or one with which you are familiar. Include details about priorities, resources, quality, and shared learning in your explanation.

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This solution explains how evaluations can be used for decision making in an organization, and includes details about priorities, resources, quality and shared learning in explanation as well as APA references.

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Systematic Evaluation of Departments/Services

Evaluations could be used in my organization in many ways. The company which I work for is a regional chain of grocery stores that is thoroughly integrated: the organization operates a distribution center, a bakery, a fleet of trucks, a merchandising crew, a design and graphic facility, a security department, a repair department, and several factories that produce private label products for the stores. A systematic evaluation system, as suggested in the Preskill and Russ-Eft Systems Models found in our text book (Moseley, Dessigner, 2009) would help to evaluate each of these functions to determine their worth to the company.

Since the heart of the evaluation is the evaluation process, it would be important to design the evaluation in a manner that would enable the organization to collect and analyze the data, and then communicate and report the findings to the organization. It is pointed out that the system's model framework is dependent upon the 'evaluator's choices in various steps within the evaluation process which are influenced by the evaluator's characteristics' (Moesley, ...

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