Decision Making Report: Analysis and Implementation

This report analyzes the decision-making process within an organization, structured across four levels: design aspect, functional and behavioral intentions, physical elements, and implementation intention. The report addresses questions related to employee behavior, manufacturing techniques, ethical policies, and quantifying aspects within the design level. The functional level examines organizational goals, employee numbers, and production costs. The physical elements level explores product distribution, storage, and asset values, alongside recovery options. Finally, the implementation intention level focuses on preferred implementation choices, employee commitment evaluation, recruitment strategies, and involvement criteria. The report references key aspects of organizational decision-making and provides a framework for formulating better decisions, supported by cited works.

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Student`s name
Professor’s name
Course
Date
Decision making
Introduction
Decision making can be defined as a method of formulating a course of action within the
organization based on a set of alternatives. It is viewed as the gearing force within the
organization as it spells out how the operation procedures in the production.
In making a decision, there are some levels of decision making which should be
incorporated in the process so as to give a meaningful decision to the organization. Such
levels involve design aspects, behavioural and functional intentions, physical elements and
implementation intentions of the made decision. (Pettigrew, pg.56).
During the research project, discussed below questions will direct the researching team in
formulating their decisions.
Level 1-Design Aspect
Q1.What is the behavioural statement of your staff?
Following the employee’s willingness to work as a team, it shows that they have welcomed
the policies and regulations guiding them within the organization.

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Q2.What are your manufacturing techniques and methodologies?
More and efficient machines have been acquired by the organization in facilitating the
production process.
Q3.What are the set ethical policies and attitude of your staff?
Fair pricing and production of quality goods are some of the set ethical policies between
the organization and the targeted market.
Q4.What is your quantifying aspects within the organization?
Scale weighing and balancing scale are used in quantifying the produced goods to
determine the level output yield per day.
Level 2-Functional and behavioural intentions
Q1. What are the set functional goals of this organization?
Profit maximization, consumers` satisfaction and production of quality products are the
main set functional goals which motivate the production process.
Q2.How many employees do you have in this organisation?
The number of employees depends on the operational departments which have a maximum
number of four per department.
Q3. What is the cost of production?
At the moment the organizational cost of production is very high following increase in the
price of raw materials due to change in climatic condition.

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Q4.How do sort out the products?
Goods which are already produced are sorted according to their prices, quantity and
durability.
Level 3-Physical elements of decision making
Q1.How do you avail your products to the market?
Goods are physically transported to the market by use of company`s trucks. Times,
wholesalers douse their own means of transport when they purchase directly from the firm.
Q2.Which facilities do you use for storage of produced products?
Produced goods are stored in the warehouse situated within the compound and also for
short-term storage, they are temporary put in set aside stores, ( Poliner and Jacqueline
pg.345)
Q3.What is the value of the organization`s assets?
From the last audit report, current value the firm`s owned assets worth $400 million.
Q4.What is the organization`s recovery options?
In cases of bad debt from the customers, insurance policy cover taken by the company will
take its course hence compensation to the organization.
Level 4-Implementation Intention
Q1.Which choices of implementation do you prefer?
Workers are forced to adapt to the new changes made within the organization.

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Q2.How do you evaluate the commitment of the employees?
Use of employee`s evaluation schemes where the output of each employee is recorded and
checked daily.
Q3.How do you recruit your workforce?
Recruitment is done based on academic background and other qualifications like
communication skills.
Q4.What is your involvement criteria?
This is done by invitation of their representatives to the board meetings so as to air their
grievances.
Conclusion
From the above-asked questions in a different level of decision making and the possible
solution given by the designer during the interview process, a better decision can be
formulated.

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Works cited
Pettigrew, Andrew M. The politics of organizational decision-making. Routledge, 2014.
Shapiro, Joan Poliner, and Jacqueline A. Stefkovich. Ethical leadership and decision making
in education: Applying theoretical perspectives to complex dilemmas. Routledge, 2016.