Decision Making Process Analysis

Decision making is crucial to a positive outcome in business strategy. Sometimes, the basis for success or failure depends on the decisions that have been made along the way. While we don't always pay attention to the specific textbook decision making process, these steps ultimately should be followed to aid in the goal of making the right decisions.
The first step in the decision making process is to identify and define the problem. This is probably the most difficult of the steps because you must be able to reveal the actual problem. Sometimes this may be hard to identify the true problem and not a symptom of the problem. In the recruiting and professional development group in which I work, we are currently re-organizing the way in …show more content…
There are many different software programs and web-based programs that could have been chosen to alleviate our archaic process of recruiting and managing candidates. This is the step in the process in which I and others in the lower positions were not fully included. We were not consulted in the alternate solutions. I cannot say 100% that there were in fact alternatives discussed. If I were in the upper management positions, I believe that the lower level employees who will be using the new program should be consulted in this decision. We are after all, the employees who will be using this system on a daily …show more content…
Specific to our new system implementation, we are actively evaluating our results. We are 9 months into using the new system and have positive results for the most part. We are able to share candidates across all sister companies and find it much easier to manage a paperless process. Being that this program is web-based and traffic can be quite high on the site, there is a tendency for it to run slowly at times. This issue has been addressed and once again is being taken care of in a timely and professional manner. All in all, we are pleased with the overall decision to adopt this new