Fifth class notes.

Ethical decision making in organizations:

We make decisions all the time, sometimes very quick and sometimes we take time to be sure before make any decision.

Programmed decision: Go to organization and culture class every Thursday at noon (routine matter).

Non-programed decision: Get a candy (new, not frequently).

There are some models of decision making as an effective way to follow up. Those are:

Rational model: Search to do things very rationally, getting notice what one is doing at a specific moment. So, here is why, because when people usually make any decision we as a human do not realize how big consequences we are facing and waiting for the results, so we have to be aware of the prior decision and think before act.

Bounded rationality model: there are limits upon how rational a decision maker can actually be.

Taking into account http://www.princeton.edu/~smeunier/JonesBounded1.pdf, Usually decision makers since they are very oriented to achieve specific objectives, sometimes do not make the right decision because have some limits for doing the best decision making due to the lack of a good procedure and also because limits that affects the person in the choises directly to the decision maker.

Garbage can model: decisions are randomly and unsystematic.

Managing risk-taking behavior: I think risk is a behavior that not a lot of people have. Managers have to manage their company or group in a risky level because how you are going to know that is true the fact that you need a fire to burn oneself without try it. Fear of taking risk stifles creativity and innovation.

Participative decision making plays an important role in the scope of this issue i am presenting and also i would rather work in a good team that perform well in order to get good result in the objectives we wanted to affront at the beginning, because decision making in which individuals are affected by decisions influence the making of those decisions. There is a mix of decisions between all people trying to get the right one. To support this idea and taking into account the next source: http://www.ownershipassociates.com/ocr2.shtm, i can argue that there are some responsibilities in the structure as a hierarchy does, in which each person of the group has to be delivered in a seriously way in order to be organize in presenting the possible decision to work in alliance with the others to get at the end a satisfactory results of those decisions.

Do you think that your ethics and values make your decisions “politically correct”, how? 

Yes, because ethics are those behavioral norms and rules in order to make the right thing. People taking into account the source: http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2010/08/why-good-leaders-do-bad-things/, are influenced by their values and all our lives teachers at schools have teached us to act in an ethical and moral way, but people in real life do not act usually in that way because there is a friend or family that need a hand and we as a good people help her/his in a way that won’t be seen as ethical and we do not care about what will happen in response of that actions or helps. So, there its in which problems appears. For instance, I can say that if somebody did not help me in getting an objective or even an university task, and did not contribute in the workshop or homework at all i can assure that I won’t help that person in getting a good grade with me as a group, otherwise I would be acting in an unethical way because is not fair to give him/her a hand just because is a classmate or because he or she gave me a chocolate bar. Consequently, I can say that acting in an ethical way, my decisions will be carrying out in a correct way. Taking into account the example explained above i can also say that if I had acted in an unethical way, putting the name of my classmate in the homework presented without doing anything with me, I will for sure feel very bad and i will cause a damage to that person because I am allowing him or her to do not work or even worst encourage him to be lazy in all the course. Then, is better to act in a proper and ethical way to not allow people to work in a mediocrity way.

What are the impacts of culture in terms of mixed-motive decision making?

Cultural differences in decision making: there are some problems that decision makers can face when entering a culture that is unknown for them. However, they belief in their own ability to solve problems, and it is a good advice to everybody to do not be afraid in entering a new market or culture.

Taking into account http://www.jstor.org/pss/3085984?searchUrl=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DCultural%2Bdifferences%2Bin%2Bdecision%2Bmaking%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don&Search=yes, I can say that we have to spread our abilities abroad to break the wall of scared in entering a new system or culture with different values and customs and systematize decision-making practice and face the challenges that culture provide us and take them like as they are daring us to entering and go for it without fear. We have to be very secure in what we do to be able to be aware of what we are doing and where we are trying to enter and feel very comfortable in all the issues to take the best decision.