Extra Practice - Business Decision Making - ثاني ثانوي

118 4 Chapter رة ا Ministry of Education 2024-1446 Business Decision Making S1 S2 S3.indb 118 Extra Practice Real Life Independent Challenge You can apply the group decision-making techniques you learned in this chapter to develop your group participation and decision-making skills. Most jobs require a variety of skills in these categories. Develop these skills by completing the fol- lowing exercise. a. Identify your life and study skills. List the types of activities you have per- formed in the past six months in life or school. For example, have you worked on a team? Written reports? Attended group workshops? Then list the skills required to complete these activities. b. Identify your experiences in life outside of school. List these experiences and the skills required to perform them. c. Review the lists you created and identify interpersonal and group skills, such as motivating others, learning to negotiate or network, or organizing a meeting. d. Which skills do you want to continue to develop and be central parts of your future jobs? Team Challenge You are working for Qassim Builders, a company in Buraydah, Al-Qassim Province, specializing in sustainable building. You are part of a project team that is supervising the design and construction of a visitor's center in Buraydah. In line with the Saudi Vision 2030, the goal is to build the visitor's center so that it is self-sufficient. That means it should use no outside resources, if possible, including energy, water, and waste systems. Your manager, Nora, suggests that you meet with your team to plan this project. a. Meet as a team and brainstorm the general categories of resources you need to build the visitor's center so that it is self-sufficient. Consider everything typically found in a public building. b. Review the resource categories and create a master list. 30/06/2023 14:28

وزارة التعليم Ministry of Education 2024-1446 Business Decision Making S1 S2 S3.indb 119 c. For each category, brainstorm ways to provide the resource without depend- ing on outside systems. For example, if you have a food category, you could create a garden and greenhouse to provide fruits and vegetables without depending on outside suppliers. d. Review the ideas your team generated, and then use convergent thinking techniques to edit the list. Your goal is to identify all the resources a visitor's center needs using systems that are fairly easy to set up and maintain and are not too expensive. e. Submit the list to your instructor as requested. Be the Critic You are working part-time for a landscaping company planting trees and shrubs in a new neighborhood full of recently built homes. A large warehouse is located near a wadi at the edge of the neighborhood. When you enter the warehouse, you discover it houses old pesticides, some of which are now outlawed. Concerned that the pesticides could pose a danger to the new neighborhood, you introduced the topic of the pesticides at a staff meeting and asked what you should do. Figure 4-9 shows how people answered your question. Analyze the solutions offered, noting their weaknesses, and send a list of the weaknesses to your instructor. FIGURE 4-9 Supervisor Landscape designer Marketing assistant Nothing. The pesticides are not your concern. You could talk to people in the neighborhood to see if they know about the pesticides. Call the local newspaper and ask them to publish a warning to the neighborhood. Office manager Contact the National Center for Environmental Compliance and find out what you should do. Sales manager Find out who owns the warehouse and persuade them to relocate the pesticides. Group Decision Making and Problem Solving 119 30/06/2023 14:28