In order to fulfill your graduation requirements for a bachelor’s degree, you must take one more course in communication. You have a choice of three courses to meet this requirement:

Writing
Public Speaking
Organization Communications

It occurred to you that you could use factor rating for making this decision. First, you decided to consider the following criteria for this decision:

Workload (amount of reading)
Number of written assignments
Probability of an “A”
Usefulness in career

You decided that your goal was to minimize workload and assignments, while increasing the probability of an “A” and the usefulness in the career. So, you collected information on these four criteria or factors to determine their ratings for each course. You rated the factors on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 meaning that the course best meets the criterion.  This information is provided in the table in the back of this exercise. The data in this table indicates that the organization communications class is the one with the lowest workload, since it received the highest rating. The public speaking class is the class with the highest probability of receiving an “A.”

1. For the four criteria listed, please explain the relative importance of all of the criteria to you. For example, which is most important? (At least three of the criteria must be considered as important to some degree for this question.)

2. Allocate weights to the four criteria based on the information listed in the previous question.

3. Decide which class to take after filling in the table below.

4. What other types of decisions could you make using factor rating?

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Criteria: Workload Written Assignments Probability of an "A" Usefulness in career Weight |||