Read the passage carefully and answer the questions: For fifteen years I spent almost half of every business day holding conferences, discussing problems. Should we do this or that—or nothing at al

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions: For fifteen years I spent almost half of every business day holding conferences, discussing problems. Should we do this or that—or nothing at al 1

MGT 312: Decision Making Problem Solving
FIRST SEMESTER 2018-19 ASSIGNMENTS

Course:

MGT312

Student name:

Academic Year

1439-1440 H

Students number:

Semester:

1st

student grade:

To be filled by Faculty

Section:

CRN: 11173

Level of the Mark:

To be filled by Faculty

Instructions for Assignment

Due date for Submission	End of Week 7
Maximum Marks:	05
Submission Mode	through blackboard
Submission method	Only WORD DOCUMENT PDF not accepted

Assignment Regulations:

This assignment is an individual assignment.
All students are encouraged to use their own word.
Student must apply Harvard Referencing Style within their reports.
Student is allowed to cite 10% from the word limit (3000 word limit means 300 words can be cited).
A mark of zero will be given for any submission that includes copying from other resource without referencing it

ASSIGNMENT -1

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions:

For fifteen years I spent almost half of every business day holding conferences, discussing problems. Should we do this or that—or nothing at all? We would get tense; twist in our chairs; walk the floor; argue and go around in circles. When night came, I would be utterly exhausted. I fully expected to go on doing this sort of thing for the rest of my life. I had been doing it for fifteen years, and it never occurred to me that there was a better way of doing it. If anyone had told me that I could eliminate three-fourths of the all the time I spent in those worried conferences, and three-fourths of my nervous strain – I would have thought he was a wild-eyed, slap-happy, armchair optimist. Yet I devised a plan that did just that. I have been using this plan for eight years. It has performed wonders for my efficiency, my health, and my happiness. It sounds like magic – but like all magic tricks, it is extremely simple when you see how it is done.

Here is the secret: First, I immediately stopped the procedure I had been using in my conferences for fifteen years – a procedure that began with my troubled associates reciting all of the details of what had gone wrong, and ending up by asking: ‘What shall we do?’ Second, I made a new rule – a rule that everyone who wishes to present a problem to me must first prepare and submit a memorandum answering these four questions:

What is the problem? [2 Marks]
What is the cause of the problem? [1 Marks]
What are all possible solutions of the problem? [2 Marks]