WORK-STYLE SURVEY Part 1: Participant Demography 1) Please tell us the overview of the company and types of project you were involved in 2) What was your role in the projects? 3) How long have you been working in this position? 4) How many important decisions have you made? 5) How important was the decision affect on the company? 6) How many different decisions have you came up with? 7) Have you studied or worked overseas? How long? Part 2: Cultural Aspects on Decision Making 1) Please pick one of the projects you were involved in and based on your national culture, how do the culture aspects help to facilitate decision making? 2) Related to the first question, was it different when you worked with international team and what were the differences? 3) What is the degree of influence on decision making in project team when considering the position (hierarchy) in the organization? How do those positions influence on decision making? 4) What is the degree of influence on decision making in project team when considering the relationships among the project team members? How do those relationships influence on decision making? 5) When you work in the project, if you feel like the decision made does not give the optimum result, do you tend to oppose the decisions agreed by the majority? 6) Do you hesitate to give your opinion which could generate better decision though you have to oppose or hurt someone’s feeling in the project team? 7) How would you grade your
1. Identify the criteria and factors, identified in this week’s reading, that are relevant when making decisions as a manager or leader.
2. Which of the six steps in the decision-making process do you think is the most important? Explain
From a contractor’s perspective, determine the greatest single challenge involved in the source selection process and suggest one (1) strategy to address the challenge in question. Provide a rationale to support your response.
7. Evaluate the statement: "If there are sacrifices to be made for human progress, it is not essential to hold to the principle that those to be sacrificed must make the decision themselves?"
-Who is the decision maker? (Remember: in analyzing a case you have to put yourself in the position of the decision maker and try to figure out what YOU would do in his/her position).
3. What are the particular challenges and dilemmas in managing relationships with those who have different cultural backgrounds and working styles from yours? How do you, personally, deal with such differences?
4. How do you think attitude assessment does or should impact on an organisation’s performance evaluations, its recruitment and selection processes and on any training programs that might be implemented?
Was the project scope defined clearly at early stage? Identify one major scope change throughout the project life and discuss the effects of scope changes on project performance?
2. What are the issues involved in these situations? How are they best addressed by the decision makers?
3. What specific factors should the company take into account when integrating the different cultures, who should be responsible for the integration process, when and how should the integration process take place and how should its success or failure be evaluated?
5. If you were Elliott, would you call for a vote on your proposal or postpone the vote until next the meeting?
1b. What are the sub-components of this problem: these are usually a set of decisions they must make involving choices regarding the above problem?
4. What are the various levels of management, and how do they participate in the process of strategic decision making?
Organizational behavior helps managers to improve the organization in a good way. Decision making process is the one of the behavior in human organizational behavior. According to McShane and Von Glinow (2000), “decision making a conscious process of making choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs”. Decision making is a linear process and it includes six steps such as identifying the problems, gather and evaluate data, list and evaluate alternatives, select best action, implement the decision and getter feedback (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
Decision making can be described as a process of making a decision or decisions, based on choices made amongst two or more competing course of actions. The ‘Decision making’ also requires making a define choice between two or more alternatives course of actions that are available.