Evidence is used to make a decision whenever the decision follows directly from the evidence (Tingling & Brydon, 2010). This is where so many people get it wrong or going by their personal beliefs or they assumptions. And not looking at the evidence when it provided.

Evidence-Based Decision

I will speak on when I worked in retail one thing I could remember was when we had a guy that will come in and buy our product in buck. This was an ongoing thing so it was no problem for me to talk to the vendor and request more than what we will normally get. This when on for weeks and this made the sales high for the product which was the positive side of it. The negative side of it was he got sick and stop coming in and I was stuck with the product, and it wasn't selling the way he was buying it. This cause a little loss due to some of the product was outdated.

Another example is when I work as a manager at a shop and decision making was really important due to the fact, I will have customers that will come in and need work done to their car. The main question they will want to know is will they get the car back today. The one thing will be it depends on what's wrong with it, and it depends on if we can get the part. So, I will make the decision if I have the part and the job doesn't require a large amount of time to fix.

Decision-Based Evidence Making

I will make sure that I look at my evidence before I make a decision and not my own assumptions. Determining if this could be negative will depends on if the decision was made without looking at the evidence.

References:

Tingling, P, & Brydon, M. (2010).Is decision-based evidence making necessarily bad?Links to an external site. MIT Sloan Management Review,51(4), 71-76.

QUESTIONS:

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