Planning and managing organisations/PMAN103/Decision-making/E-activity-start

Challenge summary

Summary:	You are required to use given case study to reflect on the importance of making sound, informed decisions.
	1 - 2 hours

NOTE: This is the final course in the Principles of Management series and the expectation is that you are capable of deeper analysis and thought as this point. By now, you should have started work on the course learning challenges which all involve reading a case study and contain a series of inter-related tasks.

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Stimulus resources

1. Lessons already learned about decision making in the microblog activity.
2. Take home message from Ruth Chang's talk about a new way to make decisions.
3. Knowledge acquired through your required readings.
4. The case study about WorldCom

Purpose

The purpose of this learning challenge is to:

• Reflect on the importance of sound decision making.
• Apply what you have learned in this course to a real world example.
• Think about the role of decision making on your work as a manager.