Unit 3 Case Study
A Decision Making Framework
Tierra Thompson
Columbia Southern University
PUA 5303 Organizational Theory
Professor: Mark Pantaleo
02/21/2015
When working in a daycare center there are many duties you must perform such as lifting and carrying children, having close contact with children, direct supervision of children, food preparation, desk work, facility maintenance, and evacuation of children in case of an emergency. Each day you set out to achieve a specific objective or objectives to make sure that the day runs smooth. You also must make sure that certain things do not occur while trying to reach your objective goal. Every day your objective might change but it still mainly remains the same. The specific objectives when working in the daycare are to make sure that none of the children get hurt, all the children are fed, have a lesson plan for each age group, and finally at pickup time make sure they all are ready to go home and picked up by only the people on the pickup list for that specific child.
Being the decision maker and performer of the day care I am in charge of making the ultimate decision, I’m accountable for that decision as well as the way the decision gets implemented. This is according to “Managing Human Behavior in Public and Non Profit Organizations” there are a lot of factors that I have to take into consideration when making decisions to maintain my objective. These factors are listed as follows: The amount of children that attend the daycare that day, the amount of staff on hand at the daycare, the allergies that those children have, the age group of the children that do attend, and the paper work to match each child that does come that day. The amount of children that come is highly important because it lets you know how much staff is needed. It also allows you to know how much lunch is needed. This is the most important factor of the day. You won’t know what you could do with the children until they are all there. The
Tierra Thompson
Columbia Southern University
PUA 5303 Organizational Theory
Professor: Mark Pantaleo
02/21/2015
When working in a daycare center there are many duties you must perform such as lifting and carrying children, having close contact with children, direct supervision of children, food preparation, desk work, facility maintenance, and evacuation of children in case of an emergency. Each day you set out to achieve a specific objective or objectives to make sure that the day runs smooth. You also must make sure that certain things do not occur while trying to reach your objective goal. Every day your objective might change but it still mainly remains the same. The specific objectives when working in the daycare are to make sure that none of the children get hurt, all the children are fed, have a lesson plan for each age group, and finally at pickup time make sure they all are ready to go home and picked up by only the people on the pickup list for that specific child.
Being the decision maker and performer of the day care I am in charge of making the ultimate decision, I’m accountable for that decision as well as the way the decision gets implemented. This is according to “Managing Human Behavior in Public and Non Profit Organizations” there are a lot of factors that I have to take into consideration when making decisions to maintain my objective. These factors are listed as follows: The amount of children that attend the daycare that day, the amount of staff on hand at the daycare, the allergies that those children have, the age group of the children that do attend, and the paper work to match each child that does come that day. The amount of children that come is highly important because it lets you know how much staff is needed. It also allows you to know how much lunch is needed. This is the most important factor of the day. You won’t know what you could do with the children until they are all there. The
References: Denhardt, R. B., Denhardt, J. V., & Aristigueta, M. P. (2013). Managing human behavior in public and nonprofit organizations (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.