Personal Perspective Paper - Essay Example

My Experience with Decision-Making Models In this mini-paper, I will describe my experience with various models of decision-making in general and asa human resources manager. Simon’s Normative Model This is the model I have often used in making decisions as a human resources manager. Since I found myself bounded by many limitations in making decisions, I had to work according to this model because it offers “bounded nationality” (Kinicki, 2008, p.251) in which the decision-makers face many constraints.

Thus, I experienced reduced rationality in my decision-making process. Since I faced short timeliness and limited information at hand, I just could satisfice with one good enough solution using my judgmental heuristics. In my daily life, since I am free to make my own choices about the things I do like choosing a picnic point on a vacation, what to eat in a restaurant, which dress to wear, so I do not use this model in general because I do not feel bounded by constraints. The Rational Model I have always wished that I could use this model in my human resources management because I always faced short timeliness which did not enable me to follow the comprehensiveness of this model.

However, in my daily life, whenever I face a problem like changing my residence, I have always made use of this model by first identifying the problem; thinking out different solutions; choosing the best possible solution; and, then implementing the solution (Robbins, Judge & Sanghi, 2010, p.44. Thus, I break down my decision-making process into short modules as is offered by this model and work on each module separately to come to the best solution that is practical and logical both at the same time.

This model has helped me in solving as small a problem as finding my lost tie, and as big a problem as solving a dispute with my spouse. Incremental Model I have widely used this model whenever I faced conflicts with my co-employees. I applied this model’s concept in making incremental improvements with my relations with employees with whom I had conflicts and disagreements. Conflicts are very normal to happen in a workplace but it is often very difficult to sit down with the parties involved and bring the situation to peace all at once.

Thus, incremental technique has been very useful for me when I made efforts to transform the destructive situation to a constructive one either alone or in group, so that small benefits done to improve the conflict can help in improving the overall situation with the passage of time. The same concept helps in improving relationships other than work too. Garbage Can Model I had a hard time working with garbage can model as my organization had a very massive virtual garbage can through which I usually had to find solutions that could best answer my problems related to employee satisfaction, when both the solutions and the problems were not associated with each other at all (Cohen, March & Olsen, 1972, p.1). However, in my daily life, I have had a very good experience with this model as I find it very convenient to store a lot of possible solutions and problems in an imaginary garbage can and when an issue arises, I just go through the solutions and associate one with my problem.

References Cohen, MD., March, JG., & Olsen, JP. (1972). A garbage can model of organizational choice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17(1), pp. 1-25. Kinicki, A. (2008). Simon’s normative model. Organizational Behavior 3E. USA: Tata McGraw-Hill. Robbins, SP., Judge, TA., & Sanghi, S. (2010). Decision-making in organizations. Essentials Of Organizational Behavior, 10/E. India: Pearson Education India.