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Decision Making: "The Engineer'S Decision-Making Skills Will Be Very Crucial To His Success As A Professional."

The document discusses decision making as an important responsibility for engineering managers. It provides an example of a production manager having to choose between purchasing an air conditioner or forklift due to budget constraints, and emphasizes the manager being responsible for making the right choice based on sound arguments. Decision making is defined as identifying and choosing alternative courses of action appropriate to the situation.

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Decision Making: "The Engineer'S Decision-Making Skills Will Be Very Crucial To His Success As A Professional."

The document discusses decision making as an important responsibility for engineering managers. It provides an example of a production manager having to choose between purchasing an air conditioner or forklift due to budget constraints, and emphasizes the manager being responsible for making the right choice based on sound arguments. Decision making is defined as identifying and choosing alternative courses of action appropriate to the situation.

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DECISION MAKING

“THE ENGINEER’S DECISION-MAKING SKILLS WILL


BE VERY CRUCIAL TO HIS SUCCESS AS A PROFESSIONAL.”
DECISION MAKING AS A MANAGEMENT
RESPONSIBILITY
 Decision-making is a responsibility of the engineer manager. It is understandable for
engineers to make wrong decisions at times. The wise manager will correct them as
soon as they are identified. The bigger issue is the manager who cannot or do not
want to make decisions.
DELANY concludes that this type of managers are dangerous and “should be
removed from their positions as soon as possible.”
 The higher the management level is, the bigger and the more complicated decision-
making becomes.
Example:

The production manager of a certain company has received a written request from a section
head regarding the purchase of an air-conditioning unit. Almost simultaneously, another
request from another section was forwarded to him requiring the purchase of a forklift. The
production manager was informed by his superior that he can only buy one of the two
requested items due to budgetary constraints.

The production manager must now make a decision. His choice, however, must be based on
sound arguments for he will be held responsible, later on, if he had made the wrong choice.
WHAT IS DECISION-MAKING?
Decision making must be defined “as the process of identifying and choosing the
alternative courses of action in a manner appropriate to the demands of the
situation.”
According to Nickels and others, “Decision-making is the heart of all the
management function.”

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