Gordan Peters's Decision-Making Process
Decision-Making Process
Throughout life, personnel are faced with making life changes, in which the challenge becomes whether the decision he or she makes is the right choice. These challenging dilemmas can be defended upon by using the six stages of the decision-making process. These six stages consist of identifying and diagnosing the problem, generating alternative solutions, evaluating the alternatives, making a choice, implementing the decision, and evaluating the decision (Bateman & Snell, 2011). Faced with a career changing decision, Gordan Peters found himself in a dilemma and if he were aware of these steps, his decision-making process probably would have gone a lot smoothly than it did.
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Starting from stage one, identifying and diagnosing the problem, he first would have recognized that an important problem exists and know that it needs to be solved. Secondly, he will have to generate alternative solutions, for example, if he did decide to remain in the military what would be his internal goal and how would it benefit his family. Next, Gordan would have to evaluate his alternatives, for example, if he did decide to get out of the military and found a decent job, would it put a stop to him being from his family as much. After considering all alternatives, he would then have to make a choice. By making the choice, he has decided that getting out was the best alternative and now he has to implement his decision. By implementing the problem, Gordan has to take action to take control of his initial problem. Lastly, he has to evaluate the decision, in which he will determine if his decision is working properly and how well his problem has been settled. Now using these steps initially, would have help Gordan 's mind be at ease and he would have been more poised with his final
Throughout life, personnel are faced with making life changes, in which the challenge becomes whether the decision he or she makes is the right choice. These challenging dilemmas can be defended upon by using the six stages of the decision-making process. These six stages consist of identifying and diagnosing the problem, generating alternative solutions, evaluating the alternatives, making a choice, implementing the decision, and evaluating the decision (Bateman & Snell, 2011). Faced with a career changing decision, Gordan Peters found himself in a dilemma and if he were aware of these steps, his decision-making process probably would have gone a lot smoothly than it did.
In June of 2009 after returning from Iraq …show more content…
Starting from stage one, identifying and diagnosing the problem, he first would have recognized that an important problem exists and know that it needs to be solved. Secondly, he will have to generate alternative solutions, for example, if he did decide to remain in the military what would be his internal goal and how would it benefit his family. Next, Gordan would have to evaluate his alternatives, for example, if he did decide to get out of the military and found a decent job, would it put a stop to him being from his family as much. After considering all alternatives, he would then have to make a choice. By making the choice, he has decided that getting out was the best alternative and now he has to implement his decision. By implementing the problem, Gordan has to take action to take control of his initial problem. Lastly, he has to evaluate the decision, in which he will determine if his decision is working properly and how well his problem has been settled. Now using these steps initially, would have help Gordan 's mind be at ease and he would have been more poised with his final