Week 1 Paper
Making decisions is a process one takes in life almost every day. We get up in the morning and decide what to wear, what to eat for breakfast, if we will stop at the corner store for coffee or maybe wait until we get to work for coffee. We make so many decisions we don’t even realize that we are going through a decision making process. In the year 2007, I had to make a decision whether or not to accept a job offer or continue working at my current job.
Without even realizing, I took the first step in the decision making process described in our text. Identifying and diagnosing the problem. When a friend of mine emailed me and informed me that a position in the Human Resources department where she worked had just opened up, I thought to myself that this would be a good opportunity to try something new. I was currently working as a medical claims processor which was very a monotonous position. As a Human Resources Assistant, I would be dealing with different scenarios on a daily basis. Another advantage to applying for this position was that it was thirty minutes closer to my home and paid fifty cents more per hour. My problem of a mundane job that was far from home could be eliminated if I received a job offer from the company my friend worked for.
Once I completed and submitted the job application for the Human Resources Assistant position at the new company, I began to utilize the second step of the decision making process. If I were accepted for this position what would I need to do differently in my day to day work week? My children attended a school that was in the direct path to my current job but out of the way to the job I was applying for. My first thought was that I would need to wake up forty-five minutes earlier to drop my children off and head to the potential new job. I then decided that if I did get the new position I would