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Assignment 3: Andres, Angelo H. BSE - Mape

1) The document discusses an example scenario of a CEO of an e-commerce startup who needs to make several hiring and operational decisions to help the business grow, including hiring both on-site and remote employees, and determining production capacity needs. 2) It also discusses other examples of business decisions like rebranding when expanding, as well as knowing when to drop early clients that are no longer profitable even if emotionally difficult, showing how feelings still need be balanced with rational factors. 3) The conclusion notes there will be many complex decisions in careers that require balancing rational factors and emotions.

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Assignment 3: Andres, Angelo H. BSE - Mape

1) The document discusses an example scenario of a CEO of an e-commerce startup who needs to make several hiring and operational decisions to help the business grow, including hiring both on-site and remote employees, and determining production capacity needs. 2) It also discusses other examples of business decisions like rebranding when expanding, as well as knowing when to drop early clients that are no longer profitable even if emotionally difficult, showing how feelings still need be balanced with rational factors. 3) The conclusion notes there will be many complex decisions in careers that require balancing rational factors and emotions.

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ANDRES, ANGELO H.

BSE – MAPE

ASSIGNMENT 3

Instruction: Find a case on the internet that tells how emotions/feelings play a
crucial role in decision-making. Then, write a three-paragraph argumentative
essay on why feelings are deemed important in decision-making.

Imagine you are the CEO of an e-commerce start-up. Your work is expanding
and you need to hire the right resources to help you realize the vision of creating
a leading online retail platform. You would need to hire people who are
experienced and adept in their fields such as software development, marketing,
operations, procurement, and logistics.
Since the business is an online start-up, you won't need to hire employees
who work on the premises exclusively. You can also get talented location-
independent workers capable of delivering the required technical support and
services online. By ensuring an optimal mix of on-site and remote workers, you
can easily carry out the functions in a cost-effective way. Emails and chat
communications as well as video interactions can keep the team spirit going.
This will also give you the flexibility of hiring talent that might be scattered over
different geographic locations and can come together digitally to create path-
breaking solutions.

As your business expands and demand grows, you will be forced to increase
your production capacity. The next step would be to decide how much capacity
installation is required to meet demand effectively. You will also need to identify
the right equipment for the purpose and the workforce to run the production
processes.

Your decision has to be guided by the fact that the ultimate aim is to increase
production sustainably so that you have the flexibility of scaling up or down
without in curring a high cost.
At some point or the other in their journeys, most companies undergo
rebranding. Usually, businesses are small initially, with only local or regional
reach and branding, but as they start expanding, the need for rebranding
surfaces.

Quite often, logos, the company’s official mascots, and even names are
changed to assert a new identity, capability, and vision. Rebranding activities are
strong decision-making skills examples that take into account company values,
products, target audiences, cultural and social sensibilities, and business
aspirations.

When a business is new, the aim is to bag as many projects and clients as
possible. The more work you get, the more money you make is the usual belief.
However, you can look at various decision-making skills examples to understand
that this approach is not ideal in the long run.

For instance, you might discover that you are spending too much time and
resources on an old client and not generating enough revenue that could justify
such heavy resource allocation. That client might be one of your earliest clients
and could have been instrumental in your business’s early-stage growth.
However, it is important to move with the times. The client or project that worked
at the beginning might not be feasible once you grow beyond a certain stage.
Hence, tough decisions need to be taken now and then.

Conclusion:
We just went through some of the usual decision-making and problem-solving
examples that are a part of most people’s professional lives. There could be
more complex decisions that we would require to take in the course of our
careers. Sometimes these can be individual decisions such as hiring or firing an
employee or organizational decisions such as opening a new office.

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