1.
Santa Cruz, California
2.
Madison, Wisconsin
3.
Manhattan, Kansas
4.
College Station, Texas
5.
Amherst, Massachusetts
6.
Athens, Georgia
Exercise Task
With this background information as context, do the
following:
1.
Use the Internet to research each of these cities.
2.
Rank-order the cities on the basis of the criteria
noted.
3.
Select the best city for your new factory.
SKILLS SELF-ASSESSMENT
Decision-Making Styles
Introduction:
Decision making is clearly important.
However, individuals differ in their decision-making
style, or the way they approach decisions. The follow-
ing assessment is designed to help you understand your
decision-making style.
Instructions:
Respond to the following statements
by indicating the extent to which they describe you.
Circle the response that best represents your self-
evaluation.
1.
Overall, I’m
to act.
1. quick
2. moderately fast
3. slow
2.
I spend
amount of time making important
decisions as/than I do making less important ones.
1. about the same
2. a greater
3. a much greater
3.
When making decisions, I
go with my
first thought.
1. usually
2. occasionally
3. rarely
4.
When making decisions, I’m
concerned
about making errors.
1. rarely
2. occasionally
3. often
5.
When making decisions, I
check my
work more than once.
1. rarely
2. occasionally
3. usually
6.
When making decisions, I gather
information.
1. little
2. some
3. lots of
7.
When making decisions, I consider
alternatives.
1. few
2. some
3. lots of
8.
I usually make decisions
before the
deadline.
1. way
2. somewhat
3. just
9.
After making a decision, I
look for other
alternatives, wishing I had waited.
1. rarely
2. occasionally
3. usually
10.
I
regret having made a decision.
1. rarely
2. occasionally
3. often
Source: Adapted from Robert N. Lussier, Supervision: A Skill-
Building Approach, 2nd ed., 1994, pp. 122–123, © 1994 by Richard
D. Irwin, Inc. Reproduced with permission of The McGraw-Hill
Companies.
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE
Decision Making with Journaling
and Affinity Diagrams
Purpose:
This exercise gives you practice in using both
journaling and affinity diagrams, both of which are tools
for effective decision making. These techniques can be
used to help expand and improve your decision making
in many areas of your life, both personal and professional.
Introduction:
The chemist Linus Pauling, winner of
Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Peace, said, “The
best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
Journaling is one technique to increase the quantity of
ideas generated in response to a decision situation.
Affinity diagrams can be used alone or in conjunction
with journaling or other idea-generating techniques.
Affinity diagrams help you to interpret and organize
a quantity of diverse ideas. The diagrams are particu-
larly useful in decision situations that involve lots of
ideas, where the ideas are very different from each
other and the relationships between the ideas are not
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