There is no one "night" way to solve problems. Everyone has a slightly different decision$-$making style. This activity is important because you can use and modify the steps it contains in order to establish a decision process or methodology that works best for you.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the steps you con use to establish a decision methodology.

Shaima owns and operates Smiles Academy, a small private pre$-$school facility. Smiles Academy has eight classrooms with children ranging from $\frac{21}{2}$ to $5$ years old, and each classroom employs two teachers. There ore also several "floater" teachers who can substitute in any of the classrooms when other teachers are absent$.$ In total, Smiles Academy hos $20$ full$-$time teachers on staff. Many of the teachers have been at the school for $15+$ years and there is o wonderful, family$-$like climate among the staff and the school fomilies. People love Smiles Acodemy.

Shoimo uses o transparent compensation system that starts new teachers ot $$18\mathrm{.}00$ per hour. For each year of service, teachers get o raise of $$0\mathrm{.}25$ per hour. She has used this compensation system since founding the school $($with some Cost of Living adjustments to teochers' salories and to the bose pay rote over the years$).$ Recently, a potentiol teacher brought in his resume and interviewed with Shaima for a job to replace one of the teachers who is retiring next year. This teacher is highly certified and would bring a lot of training and expertise to the school that the current teachers do not hove. Shaims is wondering whether she should offer this teacher a bose salary of $$23\mathrm{.}00$ per hour, instead of the usual $$18\mathrm{.}00$ per hour, in order to moke the position more attractive to him. She thinks that it may be worthwhile in order to get him to toke the job, but she is also worried about how this will affect morale among her current staff.

Reod the scenorios pertaining to activities that ore part of a decisian methodology. Select the step in establishing o decision methodology that each scenorio best represents.

One possible solution is to increase tuition in the coming year in order to be able to raise the pay rates of the other teachers to be more in line with the potential new hire. Shaima wonders if it's worthwhile to possibly upset parents with o tuition hike if the students ore exposed to more quolified teochers in the long term.

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Consider what others would think

Consider your values

Decide, observe consequences, post mortern

Conduct a cost benefit analysis

Analyze the situation

Seek advice or feedbach

It the hiring process on hold. It's possible that other teachers will apply for the job who ol's regular bose poy rote. $1$ ut Smiles Acodemy is the fomily$-$like atmosphere at the school. This hos always token est poying pre$-$school for teachers.

In thinking through the situation, Shaima wonders what Tayna, her mentor and the school's former director, would have done in this situation

Shoime extends on offer to the candidete ot the regulor $$18\mathrm{.}00$ per hour bose poy rate. He respectfully declines the offer and instend takes a hinher nnvina inh as annther gre$-$school.

Shaime pulls historicol solery date on all of her staff to essess everyone's current level of hourly poy, bosed on their years of service. She wants to ossess hnw murh of a menhlom it may couse if she sterted this new teocher out ot $$23\mathrm{.}00$ per hour.

At the monthly boord meeting, Shaimo seeks feedbock from the school's boord members on her poy dilemmo.

Shoime has always used the uronsparent compensotion system becouse she believes strongly in being foir with her staff. They moy not make as much os teschers at some other schools, but they are hoppy and are all treated equally. She wonders if hiring someone ot on above$-$normal rete would channe this.

After the condidote declines her offer, Shoimo sits down with her staff ot o meeting and discusses the situotion. She lets them know her thought process and that she ultimately decided it was more important to maintain equity and culture than to pay more for someone with higher credentiols. They oll discuss the outcomes of this situation together.

Shoimo compores the positives of ottrocting o highly qualified condidate by poying them well sbove the normal rate, with the

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Smiles Acodemy sends out o quorterly newsleter to its stoff And porents. Shoimo wonders how she woulo feel if a decision to pay o

One of the porents ot the school is an expert on poy equity. Shaims sets up a meesing with him to discuss the shuarion and ask for $$