9:28 Chapter 7: Decision Making and Creativity Aa Q Q company's interests are achieved. Scenario 3: Coast Guard Cutter Decision You are the captain of a 200-foot Coast Guard cutter, with a crew of 16, including officers. Your mission is general at-sea search and rescue. At 2:00 a.m. today, while en route to your home port after a routine 28-day patrol, you received word from the nearest Coast Guard station that a small plane had crashed 60 miles offshore. You obtained all the available information concerning the location of the crash, informed your crew of the mission, and set a new course at maximum speed for the scene to commence a search for survivors and wreckage. You have now been searching for 20 hours. Your search operation has been increasingly impaired by rough seas, and there is evidence of a severe storm building. The atmospherics associated with the deteriorating weather have made communications with the Coast Guard station impossible. A decision must be made shortly about whether to abandon the search and place your vessel on a course that would ride out the storm (thereby protecting the vessel and your crew, but relegating any possible survivors to almost certain death from exposure) or to continue a potentially futile search and the risks it would entail. Before losing communications, you received an update weather advisory concerning the severity and duration of the storm. Although your crew members are extremely conscientious about their responsibility, you believe that they would be divided on the decision of leaving or staying. Scenario 4: The Social Media Policy Decision Page 208 The industry initiatives agency is a group of 120 professionals responsible for marketing your state as a good place for companies to operate their business or open new operations. Although you report to the head of the state's employment and commerce department, your agency is semi-autonomous in its policies and practices from the parent high-potential employees for this growing agency. During a recent recruiting drive at universities and polytechnics, some potential applicants government seems out of touch with the younger generation, particularly their use of technology. A few observed that your agency's website doesn't recruitment information, and they couldn't find the department's Facebook or Twitter sites. These comments led you to think about having a social media policy in the industry initiatives agency, particularly whether or to what degree the agency should allow or possibly even encourage its staff to have work-related Facebook sites, personal blogs, and Twitter sites, and to participate in those sites during work hours. You personally know very little about emerging social media, though many of your direct reports (functional managers and team leaders) have varying degrees of knowledge about them. few even have their own personal Facebook sites, and one manager has her own travel blog. Some direct reports are strongly opposed to social media in the workplace, whereas others are likely very supportive. However, you believe that all of their views are in the agency's best interests. This social media policy decision would be within your mandate; unlike most governments, neither this state government nor the employment and commerce department has such a policy or restrictions on any policy that is designed by your agency. However, a few specific government departments prohibit Facebook and texting activity during work and, due to concerns about breaches of confidentiality and employer reputation, do not allow employees to mention work-related matters in any social media. Your decision is to develop a policy specifying whether and, if so, to what degree agency staff should be allowed or encouraged to engage in social network site activity during work hours. provide much E G 207 O