Decision Making Step

Decision-Making Steps There are six steps typically associated with effective decision processes. These six steps in the Managerial Decision-Making Process are recognition of Decision Requirement, Diagnosis and Analysis of Causes, Development of Alternatives, Selection of Desired Alternative, Implementation of Chosen Alternative and Evaluation and Feedback.(Daft 1995) First steps in the decision-making steps are recognition of decision requirement. The ability to recognize what is known is usually very important in the decision making steps. Therefore, during making-decision managers need to recognition problems and opportunity. This is because decision making is the process of identifying problems and opportunities and then resolving them. Problem is a situation in which organizational accomplishments have failed to meet established objectives. It can be also some aspect of performance is unsatisfactory. Opportunity is a situation in which managers see potential organizational accomplishments that exceed current objectives. (Daft 1995) Awareness of a problems or opportunity is the first step in the decision sequence. For example, in the human resource department, the managers are playing vital roles to determine whether the organization is satisfactorily progressing towards its goals by detect potential human resource problems. Besides that, talk to other managers gather opinions on how things are going and seek advice on which problems should be tackled or which opportunity should be embraced also is the first steps in the decision making.

In step 2, the managers need to diagnosis and analysis of causes to understanding which of the problems and opportunity of the situation should be refined. This is means that once managers have determined and defined their problems, they must begin to decide what they are going to do about it. Diagnosis is the step in the decision-making process in which managers analyze