McConnell Spice

McConnell Spice
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Decision-making is an important component in the structure and success of business. The foundation of decisions affects the kind of decisions an organization makes, decisions based on knowledge and reasonable thinking leads the organization to long-term mission achievement and prosperity. On the other hand, decisions made on emotionalism, incomplete information and on basis of flawed logic can lead to failure of a business. Thus, business people should always consider the necessity of choice before sticking to implementation of a certain decision. The decisions making process should be timely in order to capture specific market positions since good decisions mean good business and good profits.
In the process of decisions making over the years, a decision maker always has to choose the best decision from many alternatives in all the levels of management. However, sustained research devotion to business decision making has advanced only in current years. Current advances in the industry include improvement in such components of decision making such as the problem context; the processes of problem finding, problem solving, and legitimation; and procedural and technical supports.
For managers to make better decisions for the organization, they require a supportive environment and support from the company directors or the superiors of the organization. Criticism and fear upon managers will make them avoid risk taking and limit their creativity thus limiting their work on decision-making. Decision making in an organization happens in all levels of management. From the ordinary worker to the superiors of the organizations. The board of management for the organization makes the top strategic decisions on the company’s investment and future growth directions, managers make decisions on how to make tactical decisions on ways their own departments are going to contribute to the main agenda, supervisors for employees coordinate normal employees to achievement of the decisions and implementations of the created decisions. The ordinary employees make decisions on the conduct of their own responsibilities to customers and thus improving the business practice. The whole process requires a successful and enlightened recruitment and selection process, training, and open-minded management team (Dareeen, 2014).
Types of business decisions
Business decisions vary in the structure of business a management.
Programmed decisions: they are standard decisions that always follow a specific routine every time of implementation. They are in fixed steps and easy to follow by any individual. They can be computer programmed. Jackson can utilize these kind of decisions from the organization’s server to implement them to achieve the mission of the organization.
Non-programmed decisions: these decisions are non-standard and non-routine. Each decision is different from the previous one. Directors and departmental mangers make these kind of decisions for McConnell Company.
Strategic decisions: these are decisions that affect the long-term business activities for the company. The decisions can be expose the company to many risks or improve its earnings. These decisions are for board of directors to come up with in the business. They include the talking over of other companies and merging.
Tactical decisions: these decisions are medium term decisions. On how to implement strategy and includes the kind of marketing to have and number of stuff to employee. Managers make these decisions.
Operational decisions: these are administrative decisions or short-term decisions on how to implement the tactics that managers create. These are the lowest decisions in the organizations; they make sure that the business is operating fine.
Levels of decisions making
An organization’s managers make various decisions for the business to be successful; the difference between the decisions made depends on the various levels of management and the choices they take. The top management team of the organization plans on the long term decisions while the small decisions that affect the daily business operations belong to the bottom management. Companies make decisions depending on the functions of management that is; controlling, leading staff, organizing and planning.
Board or owner: an organization its activities originate from the organization’s mission and mission statement. The company his board creates the organization’s mission and vision for the internal and external business. There are many forms for accomplishing its mission achievement process and a best ideal for the achievement of the vision comes from one. In the business, Jackson his directors create the mission and vision for the company and lay down the goals to be achieved. They plan how Jackson his going to acquire resources, they take a long period to come up with the ideas in order not to risk the business (Porter, 2008).
Top management: the work of the top management is to make sure that the missions and visions translation to strategic plan is implemented. Decisions associated to strategy consist of companywide matters endorsed over a period. The objectives are what the business hopes to achieve at least in a period of 5 years. Management is work is to choose a strategy to reach strategic goals. The grand strategy for the top management includes growth, and diversification. This level of decision making spend most time drafting plans and decisions for breaking into the future. Variables under control in this level include product to sale, labor skills needed, inventory management decision systems, size and location of facilities, long-term raw materials required, nature of equipment and on which dimension to compete. Time horizon is long and the degree of uncertainty is very high.
Middle management: Once top management agrees on the general direction of the business, it is upon the middle management level to select smaller preemptive objectives that will put together and accomplish strategic objectives. Middle managers form tactical plans that have more information than strategic plans. These tactics focus towards some job or department like manufacturing, where a possible aim could involve specific measurable productivity or quality improvement. Their choices and strategies see achievement in less than a year. Supervisors in this tier manage other middle administrators or operational managers. Examples of variables under control include output rates, subcontracting levels, modes of transportation, and operation hours of plants, invent...