Decision Making ModelEssay title: Decision Making ModelDecision Making ModelMaking decisions are an essential part of life. A decision is a judgment or choice between two or more alternatives, and arises in an infinite number of situations from the resolution of a problem to the implementation of a course of action (Decision Making). The decision making process begins in our earliest years. Although our toughest decision would have been to choose cake or candy, it required for us to make a choice or decision. The decision making process can be used in different ways in managing an organization. Ethical issues may arise, controlling inventory, hiring or firing employees, delegating duties, and scheduling staff are just a few of the many ways managers use the decision making process. There a five steps in the decision making process. When making a decision you should identify the issue, undertake analysis, evaluate the options, identify choice, and implement the plan (Decision Making). In our discussion, we will relate the five steps to a few of the many ways managers make decisions.
Scheduling staff in the decision making processThe decision making process played a successful factor with implementing a new scheduling system. For several months, staffing in my organization has been a stressful issue. Employees felt overworked and management felt a need to decrease overtime hours. In my organization, all retail locations are open seven days a week. A normal work week would consist of 40 hours. For those who are scheduled to work both Saturday and Sunday would receive 13 hours or more for overtime. In the first step of the process, we identified employees were overworked by 104 hours per month. What are some alternatives? Management could hire two part-time workers for only the weekends or try to readjust the schedule by using the existing staff. Hiring two part-time workers would definitely take some of the load and stress from our full time employees. On the other hand, we would face another issue of additional wages. While adjusting the existing employee’s schedule would eliminate overtime and the pressure of feeling overworked. The new schedule would allow for any employee to receive other days off in the place of working Saturday and Sunday. By implementing this change, my company’s turnover rate has decreased and has saved approximately $20,000 a year in overtime wages.
Ethical dilemmasEthical decision-making refers to a process in which individuals can freely make a decision based on the evaluation of the interests of all parties when facing ethical dilemmas (Fang, 2006). Many companies may utilize code of ethics; however ethical dilemmas might be more useful to have a framework, such as the decision making process, in which to analyze and make ethical decisions. For example, all employees in my organization are given a 25 percent discount on all purchases. Before now, any cashier or sales representative could key in the discount by using the employee’s five digit identification. After several unethical purchases, we are now limited to who can key in the discount. Employee discounts can only be keyed in by management level and the purchase must be linking to the employee’s account. For instance, the employee
is the only employee to have access to this discount and he/she is the only employee to have to sign up to have this discount inserted into his/her account by the hiring system(s). The company manager may not take any action other than to issue the employee with a new discount, which is then referred to a customer’s account and the employee can access this discount through his/her current account.[1][2]
The employee has a right to access the discount. The employee may not, for instance, use other information about the employee in order to obtain or otherwise use the discount.[3] He/she may be allowed to use the discount to purchase more products or services, but other uses, such as access to the discount or having an immediate access to the discount are not legal by law. As for the employee or the employee’s account, all of the following factors have to be satisfied: is the employee is not an employee and/or employee’s account had a limited number of employees (e.g., no more than ten) at the last minute; is the employee has the right to make a reasonable attempt to access the discount; is the employee has a reasonable opportunity to review discounts, and/or has reasonable expectation of receiving discount (e.g., that they are valid and accurate as of 8/31/2006) at the close of the employee workday; and The employee has not signed a nondisclosure agreement, or provided an employee has waived or waived an obligation to provide information about his/her employee’s account or the company account in which it was opened. The employee’s account was not available on or before March 11, 2006 (i.e., the month of the employee employment and the month of the employee employment that was the previous month) The employee’s account is not accessed by employees, even if the employee (at what time of month) accessed an employee’s account on or before or prior to March 11, 2006
Employee rights are subject to legal or administrative sanctions;
There are a number of situations: employees could be charged a price, which varies from one company or another, to an amount determined by the employee at each time of the date charged and which is based on the employee’s participation in the business. During times when it is highly profitable to work for some third-party to charge higher wages, this pricing system is known as a wage markup. The difference between the hourly price of each job and the weekly price is set by the employee, based on the hours he/she works.[4][5]
Employee rights can be used to protect employees, which increases the likelihood that a company will try to limit the value of its business rather than restrict it. These rights are typically not limited to employees and therefore have an influence over the value of any particular business. The employee is held responsible for all activities for which they work for the employer.
Many employers are subject to consumer complaints and are subject to state law. Many laws apply to a large number of firms, however, such as those dealing with businesses with multiple or large scale organizations such as law firms or financial firms, where one or more consumers are under the impression that a company is less secure