Please type your responses in a Word document on the decision strategy that works best for each of the five situations listed below the instructions. Please make sure to type your responses in a complete sentence. The reason for your choice of the decision strategy must include the six-step procedure that you reviewed in slide #15 of chapter 2 PowerPoint and the readings for the assignment.

1. During an important meeting, several agenda items deal with actions that are crucial to the success of a current project. They require that key decisions be made--fast! As usual, Gina is joking and telling entertaining anecdotes without regard for the meeting's urgency. Pete is becoming impatient and irritates. He doesn't understand why the other meeting participants and the boss in particular, don't stop Gina's antics.

2. Zara, an accountant, cannot complete her report until Bailey, a salesman, provides her with all the necessary numbers and documentation. Zara thinks that Bailey is a procrastinator who forces her to deliver a rush job, thus causing her great stress and increasing the likelihood error. Bailey believes that Zara is exerting pressure on both of them and setting unrealistic deadlines. As the conflict is intensifying, productivity decreases.

3. A company policy manual is posted and updated at the company intranet, an internal website. Employees must sign that they have read and understand the manual. A conflict arises when team member, Xavier, insists that employees should sign electronically. Fellow team member, Luna, thinks that a paper form should be signed by employees so that better records may be kept.