Decision Making Reflection – Principal of Management and Organizations

Decision Making Reflection

This assignment will require you to reflect on your personal decision-making skills, and hopefully better prepare you for your next decision-making opportunity.
In a formal business report:
First, describe a recent, major decision that you made either in your professional or personal life. This could be an individual decision that you made or a team decision in which you participated in (whether or not you made the final decision).
Next, reflect on how the decision-making process actually happened, using the class readings for reference. Ensure you address each of the steps in the decision-making process, whether they occurred or not. Highlight, where appropriate:
Which steps do you believe people tend to be skipped or spend insufficient time on? Why?
What can you do to improve the quality of your decision making?
Then, describe what you believe are the benefits of decision making in as a group. Write a self-assessment of what you can do better to improve the quality of group decision making, giving special emphasis to your upcoming Team Assignment (read ahead in the course for details on this assignment).
Conclude with a summary of your key points and recommendations, ending with an action-statement on your future decision-making skills!
Guidelines:
This assignment is considered a complete Business Case Study. Therefore, your report should be written as a formal business report of your analysis.
This report should be between 2-4 pages (not including title page and references).
Internal references (e.g. textbook, readings, lectures, etc.) and External references (e.g. other published works) should be used to add credibility to your statements.
To be professional, always write in a formal style (e.g. using impersonal nouns such as “the team”, “the analysis” and “this project”, while avoiding personal pronouns such as I, we, you, he, she, and they)
As this is a real-time analysis, write in the present tense to describe your findings and recommended actions (except when describing past events).