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Influencing and Making Decision
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Introduction
Making decisions in a professional sense is a special kind of human activity, which
consists in an informed choice of the best option in a sense, or several preferred options from the
available ones. The need for substantiation of choice is present in all areas of human activity.
Informed choice is especially important in managing organizational and technical systems
(Cabantous & Gond, 2010). The paper is a reflection on how the concepts learned so far on
decision making models have influenced the way I make decisions. In the paper, I will identify
two decisions made within the last two weeks and then describe how I arrived at the decision by
integrating models or theories that influenced my decision making process.
Decisions made
One of the decisions I made within the last two weeks is a decision to start spending my
free time in extracurricular activities. The second decisions I made within the last two weeks is
to register for three week course on data analytics.
My decision making preference and personality type
First, according to Jung personality tests, my personality type is INJL. I am a person who
believes that appearance and reality are two different things. Many people often use their senses
and emotions to make decision. But for me, I rarely rely on senses because I have been reading a
lot of philosophical books and I have realized that senses are often deceptive. That is why I judge
rather than perceive. That is also why I have preference of thinking over feeling. When presented
with an issue, I analyze all the options, alternative and then make decision. For example, when I
realized that I have a lot of free time during week days, I asked myself: How can I utilize the free
time? In order to answer this question, I adopted the Quasirationality model (Dhami & Thomson,

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2012). The reason why I employed this model is because I had no full information. In other
words, I was working under the three limitations identified by the bounded rationality model-
limited information, limited capacity to evaluate and limited time.
By applying quasirationality model, I realized that I had two possible alternative for
utilizing my free time. The first alternative was to engage in extracurricular activities. The
second alternative was to look for part-time employment.
Data used and data analysis
The next thing I did was to collect subjective and objective data for each of the
alternatives. I wanted to determine whether extracurricular activities have more benefits than
part-time employment or the other way. To achieve this, I researched on pros and cons of each of
these alternatives and listed them in the paper.
Evaluation of the decisions
After comparing pros and cons of the two alternatives, I realized that extracurricular
activities could be associated with more positive effects to students than the part-time
employment (Nelson, 2016). The first effect is that it can enrich students 'extra-curricular life,
and effectively cultivate students' excellent ideological and moral qualities through conscious
and voluntary healthy practical activities. University school students spend most of their day in
class according to the subjects specified in the curriculum plan, but there are still many free time
at their disposal. University school students are in the developmental stage. They are energetic,
lively, fantasy, and interested in everything around them. However, they are not yet mature, have
insufficient knowledge, have poor ability to analyze and discern, and are susceptible to bad
ideas. If they do not enrich their extracurricular life with meaningful and healthy activities, they