ZEBRARUNS IS A COMPANY THAT SELLS RUNNING SHOES

ZebraRuns is a company that sells running shoes and accessories through a retail outlet.

ZebraRuns Case Study

With regard to the scenario ZebraRuns need to figure out ways and work on a feasibility plan before they investin expansion.

Decision-making techniques to ZebraRuns

Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision-making process produces a final choice called a decision. It can be an action or an opinion. Zebra Runs should firstly know:

-         Democratic decision making is when the leader gives up ownership and control of a decision and allows the group to vote.

-         Autocratic decision making is when the leader maintains total control and ownership of the decision.

-         Collective-Participative decision making is when the leader involves the members of the organization.

-         Consensus decision making is when the leader gives up total control of the decision.

Being a collective-participative decision making the organization should make decisions based on reasons and logic. An aspect of risk analysis can be a major barrier to implement a decision by collective-participative decision making and so certain decsions will have to be decided by the leader, CEO or the President board of directors. He/she can either decide himself /herself or can take help from the relevant department head. (Johnson, D.W. and Johnson, F. P. 1994)

Steps ZebraRuns should take to make an effective decision

A six-step system can be used to make the most out of a decision. The six steps include recognizing the decision circumstance and consider the objectives, recognizing choices, decomposing and modeling the problem, preferring the greatest substitute, performing an understanding investigation, and put into practice the selected alternative. Once the maker of the decision has accomplished the understanding investigation, he or she must establish whether further investigation is required. If ...