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Internal and External Importance of Decision-Making in an Organization

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Identification of both internal and external factors that affect the organization’s performance and success are covered in this section. Many factors fall within these areas. For example, internal functions include financial, funding, production, employee satisfaction, and more. External factors can have an impact on the organization’s future and additional decisions to achieve goals. Examples are competitors, legal changes or regulations, economic changes, and the political arena as well as global laws that may impact international business. In the article for this week’s reading, Oberlin (2018) explains that emergency decision making can improve or complicate the outcome. Many decisions are complex and may involve high-stress circumstances. Oberlin also discusses how people can process information differently when stressed. Consider this when thinking about a plan to change or improve a department. Interestingly, the type of industry has many obstacles depending on the vision and goals. For example, the article for reading this week by Rached, M., Bahroun, Z. and Campagne, J. (2016) discusses the complexities in supply chain management and the coordination of a supplier, a warehouse, retailer, and finally the customer. Using a decentralized verses a centralized decision making process for improvement, the results are unexpected and still provide an excellent increase to the warehouse. Experimental ideas can have tremendous outcomes to organizations and also have the ability to be refined once determination of expectations have been met. Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources and others that you locate when you prepare your assignment. The company from last week has hired you to reorganize a department within their company based on your Executive Summary. (You may also choose a department of a company you are familiar with from previous experience.) Investigate the department more thoroughly and write a plan to improve the department. Recommend actions and next steps. Include a system to list and quantitatively score competing alternative solutions. One example may be a table that lists all of the recommended actions in one column, with additional ‘expected results’ and ‘grade’ columns. In the grade column you can assign a number to how you think each potential action may meet the expected result and include this summary in your plan.  Write an email to the company CEO briefly describing your findings in the department and your plan of action. Also, write a draft email that the CEO can send out to employees to gain their buy-in for the changes ahead. (Remember, you want the email brief and the receiver to read it.) Support your paper with the required reading articles for this week and two other researched sources. Oberlin, R. (2018). Improving disaster outcomes with better decision making. Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 11(3), 279–28 Rached, M., Bahroun, Z., & Campagne, J.-P. (2016). Decentralised decision-making with information sharing vs. centralised decision-making in supply...
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