There is no one "right" 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 exercise is to challenge your knowledge of the steps you can 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 2/2 to 5 years old, and each classroom employs two teachers. There are also several "floater" teachers who can substitute in any of the classrooms when other teachers are absent. In total Smiles Academy has 20 full-time teachers on statt. Many of the teachers have been at the school for 15+ years and there is a wonderful family-like climate among the staff and the school families. People love Smiles Academy Shaima uses a transparent compensation system that starts new teachers at $18.00 per hour. For each year of service teachers get a raise of $0 25 per hour. She has used this compensation system since founding the school with some Cost of Living adjustments to teachers' salaries and to the base pay rate over the years) Recently, a potential 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 have. Shaima is wondering whether she should offer this teacher a base selary of $23.00 per hour, instead of the usual $18.00 per hour, in order to make the position more attractive to him. She thinks that it may be worthwhile in order to get him to take the job, but she is also worried about how this will affect morale among her current staff Read the scenarios pertaining to activities that are part of a decision methodology. Select the step in establishing a decision methodology that each scenario best represents 1. 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. Shalma wonders if it's worthwhile to possibly upset parents with a tuition hike if the students are exposed to more qualified teachers in the long term. (Click to select) 2 Shaima considers whether she should put the hiring process on hold. It's possible that other teachers will apply for the job who would be more likely to sign on at the school's regular base pay rate. (Click to select) 3. What the staff and parents love most about Smiles Academy is the family like atmosphere at the school. This has always taken precedence over things like being the highest paying pre-school for teachers. (Click to select) 4. In thinking through the situation, Shaima wonders what Tayna, her mentor and the school's former director would have done in this Situation (Click to select) 5. Shalma extends an offer to the candidate at the regular $18.00 per hour base pay rate. He respectfully declines the offer and Instead takes a higher paying job at another pre-school (Click to select) 6. Shaima pulls historical salary data on all of her staff to assess everyone's current level of hourly pay, based on their years of service She wants to assess how much of a problem it may cause if she started this new teacher out at $23.00 per hour Click to select Click to eco Conduct a cost-benefit analysis Analyze the situation Consider your values Decide serve comequenos, post-mortem Seek chic or feedback Consider what others would think all of her staff to assess everyone's current level of hourly pey, based on their years of service. blem it may cause if she started this new teacher out at $23.00 per hour. FEATURE MOM Parametry anoma seeks feedback from the school's board members on her pay dilemma. Click to sch 8. Shalma has always used the transparent compensation system because she believes strongly in being fair with her staff. They may not make as much as teachers at some other schools, but they are happy and are all treated equally. She wonders If hiring someone at an above-normal rate would change this. Click to select 9. After the candidate declines her offer, Shalma sits down with her staff at a meeting and discusses the situation. 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 credentials. They all discuss the outcomes of this situation together. Click to 10. Shalma compares the positives of attracting a highly qualified candidate by paying them well above the normal rate, with the negatives of not hiring this candidate. Click to 11. Smiles Academy sends out a quarterly newsletter to its staff and parents. Shalma wonders how she would feel if a decision to pay a new teacher at $6.00 per hour over the standard new teacher rate were posted in the upcoming newsletter Click to see 12. One of the parents at the school is an expert on pay equity. Shaima sets up a meeting with him to discuss the situation and ask for guidance Click to These are the available options: term. (Click to select) (Click to select) Decide, observe consequences, post-mortem Consider what others would think Conduct a cost-benefit analysis Consider your values Analyze the situation Seek advice or feedback