Extra Practice - Business Decision Making - ثاني ثانوي

وزارة التعليم Ministry of Education 2024-1446 Business Decision Making S1 S2 S3.indb 89 Extra Practice Real Life Independent Challenge You can apply the critical-thinking techniques you learned in this chapter to develop your leadership skills. Develop your self-awareness by completing the following exercise. a. Create a timeline of your life history. What are the major events in your life? b. Identify your role models. Are these people in your current or past life? What did you learn from them? c. Describe your strengths and weaknesses. d. Describe the way you typically solve problems e. Identify at least three of your core values. How do they shape the decisions you make? Team Challenge You are working for Qassim Builders, a company in Buraydah, Al-Qassim Province, specializing in sustainable building. In line with the Saudi Vision 2030, the goal of your company is to design and build structures that use energy, resources, and materials efficiently, protecting the health of occupants and improving the productivity of employees while reducing waste, pollution, and environmental degradation. Your top competitor is a company named Tameer Environments, and you are both submitting bids on three lucrative contracts. Your manager, Nora, asks your team to find a way to win the contract. Which of the following motivating actions should your team choose and why? Select your responses individually and then discuss them in your team. a. Offer your team data from the green building trade association showing how Qassim Builders uses more environmentally friendly methods and prod- ucts than Tameer Environments. b. Offer a whitewater rafting adventure tour for any team member who wins a contract. c. Announce that Qassim Builders is downsizing. The team member who does not contribute to a winning bid will be fired. Thinking Critically 89 30/06/2023 14:28

90 3 Chapter رة ا Ministry of Education 2024-1446 Business Decision Making S1 S2 S3.indb 90 d. Hold a team meeting to brainstorm how to win the contracts. What has any- one learned from customers recently? Do they like the buildings and struc- tures from Qassim Builders? What can be improved and how? Be the Critic You are working on a Saudi Vision 2030 project to build a new community cen- ter in Riyadh, which will provide a state-of-the-art events space and other facili- ties for the public and local businesses to use. However, one of the members of the board wants to change the location of the proposed building. He has pro- vided his argument for moving the location in the series of statements below. Considering the critical-thinking processes discussed in this chapter, analyze the argument in each statement, noting its weaknesses, and send a list of the weak- nesses to your instructor. "We should change the location of the community center because it would bet- ter to build a new shopping center in this location instead." "We should change the location of the community center because some people think we don't need one here anyway." "We should change the location of the community center because I'm selling my own piece of land and I think it would be much better to build it there." 30/06/2023 14:28