Use the DECIDE model (on the course site) to make a decision for the following scenario:

Your company has decided to accept your recommendation to purchase a UV Machine to increase productivity. When the machine has been delivered and readied for use, your supervisor asks you to begin using it even though the appropriate Environmental Quality Board permits have not yet been issued. He argues that such permission is pro forma anyway so why wait and lose valuable production time. What do you do?

After making a decision, share your process with your classmates, making note of what factors you noticed were most important in your personal decision-making.

1. Did you focus on how the decision would impact the people?
2. Did you want to consider how others might accept the decision?
3. Did you focus first on what makes most business sense first?
4. What questions did you ask yourself?
5. Which parts of the process were most comfortable for you and which were difficult?