Decision making strategies
Read the following three situations. Describe what you would do in the
> situation. Integrate the elements of reasoning and/or intellectual
> standards in your writing to show a textbook understanding of the material
> behind your personal example. Your work should be 500-600 words and
> integrate specifics into either the elements of reasoning, the intellectual
> standards or both. Do not worry about your answers being right or wrong –
> you are going to be graded on your connection to the material – not the
> behavior you would engage in if it happened to you.
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> Choose 2 elements of thought and 2 intellectual standards and describe
> for *each
> scenario*.
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> *Scenario A:* You are deployed in a country. A raid went wrong, and your
> squad opened fire on several innocent people. Your commander asks you and
> the rest of the squad to make it look like they opened fire up on you
> first. How would you respond?
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> *Scenario B:* As a police officer, you pull someone over. After searching
> their vehicle, you confiscate several ounces of marijuana. The computer
> system is down so you cannot chronicle this bust. Your partner tells you
> that his wife is sick and he could really use that marijuana at home for
> medicinal purposes to help her with her pain. How would you respond to your
> partner?
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> *Scenario C:* As a parent, your child has a first year teacher who gives
> ridiculously hard assignments. Your kid has a four year scholarship waiting
> for him if he can pass this last course – even with a C. The last
> assignment is an assignment that you did your graduate work on – so you
> know there’s no way a high schooler should be expected to do this
> assignment – but if your child fails this assignment, they would lose a
> four year scholarship. Do you actively help them complete the assignment –
> or let them do it themselves – knowing they can’t do the assignment
> themselves and the assignment is likely to be poor because it was an
> inappropriately assigned paper.
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> Strategic Thinking:
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> http://www.
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> Sun Tzu and the art of strategic thinking:
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> http://ezinearticles.com/?
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Introduction
People are faced with many challenges when it comes to making decisions. This is because they have to ensure that the decisions favor them and at the same conform to societal belief of what is right or wrong (Johnson, 1993).
Scenario A
This scenario can be approached from many directions. However, the outcome is the main determinant of the approach taken to this scenario. Using purpose as an element of thought, I would follow my commander’s order. This is because it will lead us into less problem or we will be able to evade punishment. On the order hand, if I approach this issue from implication of consequence point of view, I would ignore my commander’s order and tell the truth that we were the ones who began shooting at innocent people. Despite this approach leading us……………….
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